Search the Dictionary

A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.

Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony. Political economy. See under Political.

The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.

The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.

The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal. Edging machine, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.

uantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.

The liquid escaping or exuded.

ation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.

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

lic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.

Double elephant paper, paper measuring 26Paper. -- Elephant seal (Zoöl.), an African jumping shrew (Macroscelides typicus), having a long nose like a proboscis. -- Elephant's ear (Bot.), a name given to certain species of the genus Begonia, which have immense one-sided leaves. -- Elephant's foot (Bot.) (a) A South…

ession of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.

The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.

Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope. -- E*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- E*lu"sive*ness, n.

To adorn with glittering embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope.

The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.

h upon or interfere with the duty and office of another. South. Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil. Hooker. Exclude the encroaching cattle from thy ground. Dryden.

Growing or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone.

The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.

to increase in bulk or quantity. [Obs.] Waves . . . engrossed with mud. Spenser. Not sleeping, to engross his idle body. Shak.