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Tending to elucidate; elucidative. [R.]

Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope. -- E*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- E*lu"sive*ness, n.

Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive. -- E*lu"so*ri*ness, n.

Pertaining to emancipation, or tending to effect emancipation. "Emancipatory laws." G. Eliot.

Serving or tending to emasculate.

The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.

The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes. issue bank notes.

Sending out; emitting; as, emissive powers.

Sending forth; emissive. Boyle.

Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments. In philosophical language, the term empirical means simply what belongs to or is the product of experience or observation. Sir W. Hamilton. The village carpenter . . . lays out his work by empir…

en. This must not be confused with -en corresponding in Old English to the AS. infinitive ending -an.

se referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning.

Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.

Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought into gear or out of gear with another part, as occasion may require.…

poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi. The envoy of a ballad is the "sending" of it forth. Skeat.

Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.

Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.

Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.

A long, winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar.

That erodes or gradually eats away; tending to erode; corrosive. Humble.