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Consisting of two letters only; biliteral. Stuart.

The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and…

Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.

riform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. [Formerly written bullition.]

Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness.

Capability of being educated.

The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. [Obs.] Boyle.

Equality. Chaucer. Tennyson.

A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.

A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color. Elæolite syenite, a kind of syenite characterized by the presence of elæolite.

See Elæolite.

The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

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

The quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage.

A choice or select body; the flower; as, the élite of society.

A mineral consisting of both the chloride and the bromide of silver.

The act of softening or relaxing; relaxation. Bacon.

Inflammation of the brain. -- En`ceph*a*lit"ic, a.

A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee).

Affixed; subjoined; -- said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word.