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Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See Sterling.

cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus.

Made of or relating to ivory.

Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts. Every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and discipline was an abomination. Cowper. Ecclesiastical commissioners for England, a permanent commission esta…

Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.

Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.

Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs. And doth employ her economic art And busy care, her household to preserve. Sir J. Davies.

tten also economise.] Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving.

The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy. The positio…

Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the "ectental line" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum. C. S. Minot.

Of or relating to the ectoderm.

Relating to the Eddas; resembling the Eddas.

An induced electric current circulating wholly within a mass of metal; -- called also Foucault current.

Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law.

Relating to an effigy.

A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.

To utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations. [R.] "Ejaculating to himself." Sir W. Scott.

Relating to oleic acid, or elaine. Elaidic acid (Chem.), a fatty acid isomeric with oleic acid, and obtained from it by the action of nitrous acid.

ro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty.

ecomposition, by the action of electricity; as, the electrolysis of silver or nickel for plating; the electrolysis of water.