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Room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope. "My soul hath elbowroom." Shak. Then came a stretch of grass and a little more elbowroom. W. G. Norris.

The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).

The loon or great northern diver. See Loon. [Written also emmer-goose and imber-goose.]

To emblossom. Savage.

To make gloomy. [R.]

To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep. Shak.

One versed in the science of the Entozoa.

One of the Entozoa.

Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

A peculiar structure found in the Archæan limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure.

Pertaining to the eozoön; containing eozoöns; as, eozoönal limestone.

See Omentum.

One of the artificial group of invertebrates of various kinds, which live parasitically upon the exterior of other animals; an ectozoön. Among them are the lice, ticks, many acari, the lerneans, or fish lice, and other crustaceans.

Of or pertaining to an epizoön.

An epizoötic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.

See Parovarium.

A breed of ponies native to the Exmoor district.

A canine tooth of the upper jaw. See Teeth. To cut one's eyeteeth, to become acute or knowing. [Colloq.]

Fairness; beauty. [Obs.] Foxe.

A folding stool, or portable seat, made to fold up in the manner of a camo stool. It was formerly placed in the choir for a bishop, when he offciated in any but his own cathedral church. Fairholt.