Part 3640

<hw><hw>Ek"a*bor`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ek"a*bo"ron</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[G., fr. Skr. <ets><?/ka</ets> one + G. <ets>bor</ets>, <ets>boron</ets>, E. <ets>boron</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named <i>scandium</i>; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See <er>Scandium</er>.</def>

<h1>Ekaluminium</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>Ek*al`u*min"i*um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Skr. <ets><?/ka</ets> one + E. <ets>aluminium</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called <i>gallium</i>. See <er>Gallium</er>, and cf. <er>Ekabor</er>.</def>

<h1>Ekasilicon</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>Ek`a*sil"i*con</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Skr. <ets><?/ka</ets> one + E. <ets>silicon</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named <i>germanium</i>; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See <er>Germanium</er>, and cf. <er>Ekkabor</er>.</def>

<h1>Eke</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>Eke</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Eked</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Eking</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>\'c7kan</ets>, <ets>\'dfkan</ets>; akin to OFries, <ets>\'beka</ets>, OS. <ets><?/kian</ets>, OHG. <ets>ouhh\'d3n</ets> to add, Icel. <ets>auka</ets> to increase, Sw. <ets>\'94ka</ets>, Dan. <ets>\'94ge</ets>, Goth. <ets>aukan</ets>, L. <ets>augere</ets>, Skr. <ets><?/jas</ets> strength, <ets>ugra</ets> mighty, and probably to English <ets>wax</ets>, v. i. Cf. <er>Augment</er>, <er>Nickname</er>.]</ety> <def>To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with <i>out</i>, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; <as>as, to <ex>eke</ex> out a scanty supply of one kind with some other</as>.</def> "To <i>eke</i> my pain."

<i>Spenser.</i>

<blockquote>He <b>eked</b> out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Eke</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>Eke</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>e\'a0c</ets>; akin to OFries. <ets>\'a0k</ets>, OS. <ets><?/k</ets>, D. <ets><?/ok</ets>, OHG. <ets>ouh</ets>, G. <ets>auch</ets>, Icel. <ets>auk</ets>, Sw. <ets>och</ets> and, Dan. <ets>og</ets>, Goth. <ets>auk</ets> for, but. Prob. from the preceding verb.]</ety> <def>In addition; also; likewise.</def> <mark>[Obs. or Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>'T will be prodigious hard to prove That this is <b>eke</b> the throne of love. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A trainband captain <b>eke</b> was he Of famous London town. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; <i>Eke</i> serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion.</note>

<i>M\'84tzner.</i>

<h1>Eke</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>Eke</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An addition.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Clumsy <b>ekes</b> that may well be spared. <i>Geddes.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Ekebergite</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>Ek"e*berg`ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <ets>Ekeberg</ets>, a German.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A variety of scapolite.</def>

<h1>Ekename</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>Eke"name`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Nickname</er>.]</ety> <def>An additional or epithet name; a nickname.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Eking</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>Ek"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Eke</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <fld>(Shipbuilding)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>eiking</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>E-la</h1> <Xpage=475>

<hw>E"-la`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Originally, the highest note in the scale of Guido; hence, proverbially, any extravagant saying.</def> "Why, this is above <i>E-la</i>!"

<i>Beau. & Fl.</i>

<h1>Elaborate</h1> <Xpage=475>