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A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.

A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.

er gases and vapors. -- Elastic limit (Mech.), the limit of distortion, by bending, stretching, etc., that a body can undergo and yet return to its original form when relieved from stress; also, the unit force or stress required to produce this distortion. Within the elastic limit the distortion is directly proportion…

Capable of occasioning the phenomena of electricity; as, an electric or electrical machine or substance.

A branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps.

An apparatus or machine for producing motion and mechanical effects by the action of electricity; an electro-magnetic engine.

ple portion of that which is complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any simple part in a machine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite. The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn. Jowett (Th…

A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself.

A little elf or urchin. Shenstone.

The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.

The branching forth, as of trees.

polishing. -- Emery wheel, a wheel containing emery, or having a surface of emery. In machine shops, it is sometimes called a buff wheel, and by the manufacturers of cutlery, a glazer.

The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.

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

That which is taken by encroaching on another.

in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina.

Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoön. -- En`do*par`a*sit"ic, a.

dress. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought into gear or out of gear with another part, as occasion may require.

Any instrument by which any effect is produced; especially, an instrument or machine of war or torture. "Terrible engines of death." Sir W. Raleigh.

Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper. Knight.