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effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power. The efficient cause is the working cause. Wilson.

f greasy luster, and gray to reddish color. Elæolite syenite, a kind of syenite characterized by the presence of elæolite.

A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder. Presiding elder (Meth. Ch.), an elder commissioned by a bishop to have the oversight of the churches and preachers in a certain district. -- Ruling elder, a lay presbyter or member of a Presbyterian church session. Schaff.…

election, to choose. He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths. Fitzed. Hall.

Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity.

Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of…

atters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized]

] The imperial ensign, . . . streaming to the wind, With gems and golden luster rich emblazed. Milton.

represent by, or as by, an emblem; to symbolize. Anciently the sun was commonly emblematized by a starry or radiate figure. Bp. Hurd.

That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, emmetropia. The normal or emmetropic eye adjusts itself perfectly for all distances. J. Le Conte.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature.

character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.

An unorganized ferment (contained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.

elain, or the like, the colors being afterwards fixed by fire. -- Enamel paper, paper glazed a metallic coating.

Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed. [Written also enamelled.]

A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.

to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate.

One of the orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.

Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.