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n 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.

Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason. -- n.

ective kingdom. Dryden. Elective affinity or attraction (Chem.), a tendency to unite with certain things; chemism.

electrical points regarded as forming, by an analogy with optical phenomena, an image of certain other electrical points, and used in the solution of electrical problems. Sir W. Thomson. -- Electrical light, the light produced by a current of electricity which in passing through a resisting medium heats it to incande…

The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.

Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.

An exciting and depolarizing acid solution used in certain cells or batteries, as the Grenet battery. Electropoion is best prepared by mixing one gallon of concentrated sulphuric acid diluted with three gallons of water, with a solution of six pounds of potassium bichromate in two gallons of boiling water. It should be…

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 African plant (Testudinaria Elephantipes), which has a massive rootstock covered with a kind of bark cracked with de…

Of or pertaining to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course.

One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chætopoda.

the line of his daughter Fatima; among the Turks, likewise, a title of dignity, given to certain high officials.

tained in this extract and in other vegetable juices), which effects the decomposition of certain glucosides.

osable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.

The act of enchanting; the production of certain wonderful effects by the aid of demons, or the agency of supposed spirits; the use of magic arts, spells, or charms; incantation. After the last enchantment you did here. Shak.

er; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. Acts xvii. 18. I am most fortunate thus accidentally to encounter you. Shak.

Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone.

Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.

To exert one's self; to work for a certain end. And such were praised who but endeavored well. Pope.

A chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain Crustacea.

The portion of each apodeme developed from the interepimeral membrane in certain crustaceans.