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To unwind, as a thread from a ball. [R.]

r; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.

developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, the carefully elaborated theme. Syn. -- detailed, elaborate. [WordNet 1.5]

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.

One who, or that which, elaborates.

Tending to elaborate.

to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. M. Arnold.

See Electropuncture.

See Lucubrate. [Obs.] Blount.

See Lucubration. [Obs.] Evelyn.

To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate. [Obs.] Bullokar.

Emaciation. [Obs.]

To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home. Forced to emigrate in a body to America. Macaulay. They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. J. H. Newman.

The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western.

Relating to emigration.

An advocate or promoter of emigration.

One who emigrates; am emigrant. [R.]

The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding. [Obs.] Holland.

A detailed exposition; relation. [Obs.] Hakewill.