Part 651

E*lab"o*ra`tor (?), n. One who, or that which, elaborates.

E*lab"o*ra*to*ry (?), a. Tending to elaborate.

E*lab"o*ra*to*ry, n. A laboratory. [Obs.]

||E`læ*ag"nus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a Bœotian marsh plant; &?; olive + &?; sacred, pure.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.

||E*læ"is (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; olive tree.] (Bot.) A genus of palms.

Elæis Guineensis, the African oil palm, is a tree twenty or thirty feet high, with immense pinnate leaves and large masses of fruit. The berries are rather larger than olives, and when boiled in water yield the orange-red palm oil.

E*læ"o*lite (?), n. [Gr. &?; olive oil, oil + -lite.] (Min.) A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color.

Elæolite syenite, a kind of syenite characterized by the presence of elæolite.

E`læ*op"tene (?), n. [Gr. &?; olive oil, oil + &?; winged, fleeting.] (Chem.) The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts. [Written also elaoptene.]

E*la"i*date (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of elaidic acid.

E`la*id"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. élaïdique. See Elaine.] Relating to oleic acid, or elaine.

Elaidic acid (Chem.), a fatty acid isomeric with oleic acid, and obtained from it by the action of nitrous acid.

E*la"i*din (?), n. [Cf. F. élaïdine.] (Chem.) A solid isomeric modification of olein.

{ E*la"ine (?), or E*la"in }, n. [Gr. &?; olive oil, oil, from &?; the olive tree: cf. F. élaïne.] (Chem.) Same as Olein.

E`lai*od"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; olive oil, oil + &?; form.] (Chem.) Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid. [R.]

E`lai*om"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?; olive oil, oil + -meter.] (Chem.) An apparatus for determining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for ascertaining the degree of purity of oil.

E"lam*ite (?), n. A dweller in Flam (or Susiana), an ancient kingdom of Southwestern Asia, afterwards a province of Persia.

E*lamp"ing (?), a. [See Lamp.] Shining. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

||É`lan" (?), n. [F., fr. élancer to dart.] Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

E*lance" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elanced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Elancing (?).] [F. élancer, OF. eslancier; pref. es- (L. ex) + F. lancer to dart, throw, fr. lance.] To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart. [R.]

While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart.

Prior.

E"land (?), n. [D. eland elk, of Slav. origin; cf. Pol. jelen stag, Russ. oléne, Lith. elnis; perh. akin to E. elk.] 1. (Zoöl.) A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.

2. (Zoöl.) The elk or moose.

E*la"net (?), n. (Zoöl.) A kite of the genus Elanus.

E*la"o*lite (?), n. (Min.) See Elæolite.

E`la*op"tene (?), n. (Chem.) See Elæoptene.

El"a*phine (?), a. [Gr. &?; stag.] (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of, the stag, or Cervus elaphus.