Part 3683

<h1>Elucubrate</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E*lu"cu*brate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>elucubratus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>elucubrare</ets> to compose by lamplight.]</ety> <def>See <er>Lucubrate</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Blount.</i>

<h1>Elucubration</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E*lu`cu*bra"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>\'82lucubration</ets>.]</ety> <def>See <er>Lucubration</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Evelyn.</i>

<h1>Elude</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E*lude"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Eluded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Eluding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>eludere</ets>, <ets>elusum</ets>; <ets>e + ludere</ets> to play: cf. F. <ets>\'82luder</ets>. See <er>Ludicrous</er>.]</ety> <def>To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; <as>as, to <ex>elude</ex> an officer; to <ex>elude</ex> detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to <ex>elude</ex> the force of an argument or a blow.</as></def>

<blockquote>Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, <b>eludes</b> he eager swain. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual process of which the stages <b>elude</b> close definition. <i>Tylor.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To evade; avoid; escape; shun; eschew; flee; mock; baffle; frustrate; foil.</syn>

<h1>Eludible</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E*lud"i*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being eluded; evadible.</def>

<h1>Elul</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E"lul</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Heb.]</ety> <def>The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September.</def>

<h1>Elumbated</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E*lum"ba*ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>elumbis</ets>; <ets>e + lumbus</ets> loin.]</ety> <def>Weak or lame in the loins.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Elusion</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E*lu"sion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>elusio</ets>, fr. L. <ets>eludere</ets>, elusum. See <er>Elude</er>.]</ety> <def>Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.</def>

<h1>Elusive</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E*lu"sive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.</def>

<blockquote><b>Elusive</b> of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

-- <wordforms><wf>E*lu"sive*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>E*lu"sive*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Elusory</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E*lu"so*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>elusorius</ets>.]</ety> <def>Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>E*lu"so*ri*ness</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Elute</h1> <Xpage=481>

<hw>E*lute"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>elutus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>eluers</ets> to elute; <ets>e + luere</ets> to wash.]</ety> <def>To wash out.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Arbuthnot.</i>