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Situated, directed, or moving toward the east; as, the easterly side of a lake; an easterly course or voyage.

Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage. Eastern Church. See Greek Church, under Greek.

Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York.

To take position in echelon. Change direction to the left, echelon by battalion from the right. Upton (Tactics).

e or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy.

A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

to approach by slow degrees, as when a sailing vessel approaches an object in an oblique direction from the windward. -- To edge in, to get in edgewise; to get in by degrees. -- To edge in with, as with a coast or vessel (Naut.), to advance gradually, but not directly, toward it.

In the direction of the edge. [Obs.] Three hundred thousand pieces have you stuck Edgelong into the ground. B. Jonson.

With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge. Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways. Sir W. Scott.

A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer.

l, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall. We prize the stronger effort of his power. Pope.

The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.

ng forces. Rankine. -- Elastic fluids, those which have the property of expanding in all directions on the removal of external pressure, as the air, steam, and other gases and vapors. -- Elastic limit (Mech.), the limit of distortion, by bending, stretching, etc., that a body can undergo and yet return to its origina…

An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator. [R.]

ng itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of l…

onsist in the rapid alternation of transient electric currents moving transversely to the direction of the ray.

To decompose by the direct action of electricity. Faraday.

Serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic.

o, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line odirection.

Acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin. Endermic method, that in which the medicine enters the system through the skin, being applied either to the sound skin, or to the surface denuded of the cuticle by a blister.