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Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please. As she . . . was further dulcified by her pipe of tobacco. Hawthorne.

ange power of the world that, the moment we enter it, our great conceptions dwarf. Beaconsfield.

r without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you. "Each of the combatants." Fielding.

e, or dignity of an earl. He [Pulteney] shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom. Chesterfield.

given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin.

Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish. [Eng.]

The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction. The assured edification of his church. Bp. Hall. Out of these magazines I shall supply the town with what may tend to their edification. Addison.…

To build; to construct. [Archaic] There was a holy chapel edified. Spenser.

ication; as, to edit a newspaper. Philosophical treatises which have never been edited. Enfield.

Like a wild beast; fierce. [Obs.]

The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.

One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs.

Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.

omething highly delightful or inspiriting; to thrill; as, this patriotic sentiment electrified the audience. If the sovereign were now to immure a subject in defiance of the writ of habeas corpus . . . the whole nation would be instantly electrified by the news. Macaulay. Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt…

Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.

The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.

Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire. "Some luminous and fiery impressions in the elementary region." J. Spencer.

called by the English rural folk who often find these objects of prehistoric make in the fields and formerly attributed them to fairies; -- called also elf bolt, elf dart, and elf shot. -- Elf child, a child supposed to be left by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See Changeling. -- Elf fire, the ignis fatuus.…

That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.

The quality worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.