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

Greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin.

To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized]

The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate,

A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure.

Ellagic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, C14H8O9, found in bezoar stones, and obtained by the oxidation of gallic acid.

An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).

Of or pertaining to empyreuma; as, an empyreumatic odor. Empyreumatic oils, oils obtained by distilling various organic substances at high temperatures. Brande & C.

A glassy, opaque bead obtained by the blowpipe.

To make or gain by force; to obtain by force; as, to enforce a passage. "Enforcing furious way." Spenser.

land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n.,

A yellow or brownish red dyestuff obtained by the action of bromine on fluoresceïn, and named from the fine rose-red which it imparts to silk. It is also used for making a fine red ink. Its solution is fluorescent.

A colorless oil (quickly becoming brown), with a pleasant odor, obtained by the decomposition of ericolin.

ine substance, C4H6.(OH)4, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decomposition of erythrin; -- called also erythrol, erythroglucin, erythromannite, pseudorcin, cobalt bloom, and under the name phycite obtained from the alga Protococcus vulgaris. It is a tetrabasic alcohol, corre…

A crystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when acted on by nitric acid or ammonia.

ng a red color and oily appearance; -- applied to a purple semifluid substance said to be obtained from archil.

A red substance obtained from litmus.

A red dyestuff obtained from fluoresceïn by the action of iodine.

To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. "Sailors that escaped the wreck." Shak.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the horse-chestnut; as, esculic acid.