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electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric spark.

ine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite. The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn. Jowett (Thucyd.).

A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin.

To lessen; to detract from; to disparage. [A Latin meaning] [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. To elevate a piece (Gun.), to raise the muzzle; to lower the breech.

An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

a natural subfamily including buntings and some New World sparrows. Syn. -- subfamily Emberizidae, subfamily Emberizinae. [WordNet 1.5]

A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation. Sir T. Browne.

ka. -- Emperor moth (Zoöl.), one of several large and beautiful bombycid moths, with transparent spots on the wings; as the American Cecropia moth (Platysamia cecropia), and the European species (Saturnia pavonia). -- Emperor paper. See under Paper. -- Purple emperor (Zoöl.), a large, strong British butterfly (Apatu…

A band of sworn soldiers; a division of the Spartan army ranging from twenty-five to thirty-six men, bound together by oath.

noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17.

To do harm to; to injure; to disparage. [Obs.] If I make a lie To gain your love and envy my best mistress, Put me against a wall. J. Fletcher.

A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.

striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., "He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued, but advanced them." Johnson.

A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

ribe, people, country, and the like. What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions Grote.

A mineral occurring in transparent emerald green crystals. It is hydrous arseniate of copper.

A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina.

y followed by for before the thing received. Exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparking pebble or a diamond. Locke.

An unfledged or young male sparrow hawk. [Obs.] Shak.

hyllopod crustacean (Chirocephalus diaphanus); -- so called from its delicate colors, transparency, and graceful motions. The name is sometimes applied to similar American species. -- Fairy stone (Paleon.), an echinite.