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th's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercur…

A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare.

That which is poured out, literally or figuratively. Wash me with that precious effusion, and I shall be whiter than sow. Eikon Basilike. The light effusions of a heedless boy. Byron.

Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.

A variety of scapolite.

efine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work. The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. Arbuthnot.

osition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure. A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature. Prescott.

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

Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature. -- n.

To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.

ames i. 4. With strength entire and free will armed. Milton. One entire and perfect chrysolite. Shak.

A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature. Brande & C.

Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other. The literary prigs epicene. Prof. Wilson. He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor layman. J. A. Symonds.

A crystallized, transparent mineral of the Zeolite family. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

es end with the same word or affirmation; e. g., "Are they Hebrews so am I. Are they Israelites so am I." 2 Cor. xi. 22.

ericles in his epitaphian speech. Milton. Epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally. Lowell.

n during the dreary interval which separates from one another two important epochs of our literary history. A. W. Ward.

Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory. Burke.

Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.

The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration. Johnson.