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nion; combination; a coupling; a pair. [Obs.] Shak. And forth together rode, a goodly couplement. Spenser.

Dazzling flash, glare, or burst of light. Donne.

defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.

te of being dimpled, or marked with gentle depressions. [R.] The ground's most gentle dimplement. Mrs. Browning.

Deprivation of ability; incapacity. Bacon.

The act of disentangling or clearing from difficulties. Warton.

The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell.

A variety of pear of large size and excellent flavor.

The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. [R.] Mrs. Oliphant.

A kind of figs of superior quality.

t be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.

Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope.

The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.

The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.

According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat; this is my body," elementally understood.

Elementary. [Obs.] Skelton.

The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.

Elementariness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.

Instruction in the elements or first principles. [R.]