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ds money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste. "Economists even to parsimony." Burke.

Browning If they find the old governments effete, worn out, . . . they may seek new ones. Burke.

Pertaining to an election or to electors. In favor of the electoral and other princes. Burke. Electoral college, the body of princes formerly entitled to elect the Emperor of Germany; also, a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electors chosen by the people to elect the President and Vice Preside…

Electoral. Burke.

The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire. Burke.

le; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house. The more eligible of the two evils. Burke.

ollection; to coalesce. [Written also imbody.] Firmly to embody against this court party. Burke.

" Dryden. Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society. Burke.

Suddenly appearing; arising unexpectedly; Protection granted in emergent danger. Burke. Emergent year (Chron.), the epoch or date from which any people begin to compute their time or dates; as, the emergent year of Christendom is that of the birth of Christ; the emergent year of the United States is that of the declara…

her eminences or cavities. Dryden. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. Burke.

or peace. All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him. Burke.

energy; as, to enforce arguments or requests. Enforcing sentiment of the thrust humanity. Burke.

Ephemeral. [R.] Burke.

, or state of being equalized. Their equalization with the rest of their fellow subjects. Burke.

ging to, or composed of, the ancient Roman equities or knights; as, the equestrian order. Burke.

The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. Burke. The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt. Hume.

r forces. The means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth. Burke. Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires. Longfellow.

Uncertain, as an indication or sign; doubtful. "How equivocal a test." Burke. Equivocal chord (Mus.), a chord which can be resolved into several distinct keys; one whose intervals, being all minor thirds, do not clearly indicate its fundamental tone or root; the chord of the diminished triad, and the diminished seventh…

Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory. Burke.

, as convoy is to movements at sea. The troops of my escort marched at the ordinary rate. Burke.