Part 3670

<hw>El"e*va`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., one who raises up, a deliverer: cf. F. <ets>\'82l\'82vateur</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything</def>; as: <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a <i>lift</i>; the cage or platform itself</def>. <sd>(c)</sd> <def>A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain</def>. <sd>(d)</sd> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye</def>. <sd>(e)</sd> <fld>(Surg.)</fld> <def>An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Elevator head</col>, <col>leg</col>, &and; <col>boot</col></mcol>, <cd>the boxes in which the upper pulley, belt, and lower pulley, respectively, run in a grain elevator.</cd></cs>

<h1>Elevatory</h1> <Xpage=479>

<hw>El"e*va`to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; <as>as, <ex>elevatory</ex> forces</as>.</def>

<h1>Elevatory</h1> <Xpage=479>

<hw>El"e*va`to*ry</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>\'82l\'82vatoire</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Surg.)</fld> <def>See <er>Elevator</er>, <tt>n.</tt> <sd>(e)</sd>.</def>

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<h1>\'90l\'8ave</h1> <Xpage=480>

<hw>\'90`l\'8ave"</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. <ets>\'82lever</ets> to raise, bring up.]</ety> <def>A pupil; a student</def>.

<h1>Eleven</h1> <Xpage=480>

<hw>E*lev"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>enleven</ets>, AS. <ets>endleofan</ets>, <ets>endlufon</ets>, for <ets>nleofan</ets>; akin to LG. <ets>eleve</ets>, <ets>\'94lwe</ets>, <ets>\'94lwen</ets>, D. <ets>elf</ets>, G. <ets>elf</ets>, <ets>eilf</ets>, OHG. <ets>einlif</ets>, Icel. <ets>ellifu</ets>, Sw. <ets>elfva</ets>, Dan. <ets>elleve</ets>, Goth. <ets>ainlif</ets>, cf. Lith. <ets>v\'89nolika</ets>; and fr. the root of E. <ets>one</ets> + (prob.) a root signifying "to be left over, remain," appearing in E. <ets>loan</ets>, or perh. in <ets>leave</ets>, v. t., <ets>life</ets>. See <er>One</er>, and cf. <er>Twelve</er>.]</ety> <def>Ten and one added; <as>as, <ex>eleven</ex> men</as>.</def>

<h1>Eleven</h1> <Xpage=480>

<hw>E*lev"en</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Cricket & American Football)</fld> <def>The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; <as>as, the all-England <ex>eleven</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Eleventh</h1> <Xpage=480>

<hw>E*lev"enth</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. AS. <ets>endlyfta</ets>. See <er>Eleven</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Next after the tenth; <as>as, the <ex>eleventh</ex> chapter</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; <as>as, the <ex>eleventh</ex> part of a thing</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.</def>

<h1>Eleventh</h1> <Xpage=480>

<hw>E*lev"enth</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.</def>

<h1>Elf</h1> <Xpage=480>

<hw>Elf</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Elves</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[AS. <ets>\'91lf</ets>, <ets>ylf</ets>; akin to MHG. <ets>alp</ets>, G. <ets>alp</ets> nightmare, incubus, Icel. <ets><?/ltr</ets> elf, Sw. <ets>alf</ets>, <ets>elfva</ets>; cf. Skr. <ets>rbhu</ets> skillful, artful, <ets>rabh</ets> to grasp. Cf. <er>Auf</er>, <er>Oaf</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks.</def>

<blockquote>Every <b>elf</b>, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>