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To fill with breath; to puff up. Sir T. Herbert.

The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind. A soft efflation of celestial fire. Parnell.

Eglantine. [Obs. or R.] [Written also eglantere.] Tennyson.

and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject. [Archaic or Technical] Its active rays ejaculated thence. Blackmore.

wing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight. [Archaic or Technical] "An ejaculation or irradiation of the eye." Bacon.

A muscle which helps ejaculation.

Casting or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels.

A wailing; lamentation. [Obs.] "Ejulation in the pangs of death." Philips.

Lifted up; raised; elevated. With upper lip elate. Fenton. And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes, elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W. Jones.

With elation.

The state of being elated.

One who, or that which, elates.

A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.

he juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium).

Same as Elatrometer.

Acting force; elasticity. [Obs.] Ray.

A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity. "Felt the elation of triumph." Sir W. Scott.

Raised; lifted up; -- a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative, denoting a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases.

g the degree of rarefaction of air contained in the receiver of an air pump. [Spelt also elaterometer.]

To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by means of electrolysis.