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<p><b>2.</b> <def>To remove further off.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Elongate</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E*lon"gate</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Elongate</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E*lon"gate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>elongatus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Drawn out at length; elongated; <as>as, an <ex>elongate</ex> leaf</as>.</def> "An <i>elongate</i> form."

<i>Earle.</i>

<h1>Elongation</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E`lon*ga"tion</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>elongatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>\'82longation</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.</def> "<i>Elongation</i> of the fibers."

<i>Arbuthnot.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which lengthens out; continuation.</def>

<blockquote>May not the mountains of Westmoreland and Cumberland be considered as <b>elongations</b> of these two chains? <i>Pinkerton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance.</def>

<blockquote>The distant points in the celestial expanse appear to the eye in so small a degree of <b>elongation</b> from one another, as bears no proportion to what is real. <i>Glanvill.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>The angular distance of a planet from the sun; <as>as, the <ex>elongation</ex> of Venus or Mercury</as>.</def>

<h1>Elope</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E*lope"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Eloped</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Eloping</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[D. <ets>ontloopen</ets> to run away; pref. <ets>ont-</ets> (akin to G. <ets>ent-</ets>, AS. <ets>and-</ets>, cf. E. <ets>answer</ets>) + <ets>loopen</ets> to run; akin to E. <ets>leap</ets>. See <er>Leap</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.</def>

<blockquote>Great numbers of them [the women] have <b>eloped</b> from their allegiance. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Elopement</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E*lope"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.</def>

<h1>Eloper</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E*lop"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who elopes.</def>

<h1>Elops</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E"lops</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>elops</ets>, <ets>helops</ets>, a kind of sea fish, Gr. <?/.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A genus of fishes. See <er>Saury</er>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A mythical serpent.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Milton.</i>