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To make clear; to clear up what is obscure or not understood; to explain.

clearing up of anything which is obscure or not easily understood; an explanation. The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer. Clarendon.

A dancing tune in the Scotch style.

Relating to the Eddas; resembling the Eddas.

A salt of elaidic acid.

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.

A solid isomeric modification of olein.

Same as Olein.

Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid. [R.]

An apparatus for determining the amount of oil contained in any substance, or for ascertaining the degree of purity of oil.

A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair. Addison.

One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan.

flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements. [Archaic] To embattail and to wall about thy cause With iron-worded proof. Tennyson.

To braid up, as hair. [Obs.] Spenser.

To impair. [Obs.] Spenser.

Having to do with inlaid work; -- especially used with reference to work of the ancient Greeks.

To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.

The act of enchaining, or state of being enchained.

To seat in a chair. Tennyson.