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The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor. Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom. J. Adams.

A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37.

ood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.

rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.

The liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed.

ndum. Emery board, cardboard pulp mixed with emery and molded into convenient. -- Emery cloth or paper, cloth or paper on which the powder of emery is spread and glued for scouring and polishing. -- Emery wheel, a wheel containing emery, or having a surface of emery. In machine shops, it is sometimes called a buff wh…

State of being eminent; eminence. "Eminency of estate." Tillotson.

A sovereign mistress. "Empress of my soul." Shak. Empress cloth, a cloth for ladies' dresses, either wholly of wool, or with cotton warp and wool weft. It resembles merino, but is not twilled.

o form a glossy surface like enamel upon; as, to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth.

That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. Shak.

An older spelling of Endow. Tillotson.

To clothe with flesh. [Obs.] Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him. Florio.

er nine or a group of nine. The Enneads, the title given to the works of the philosopher Plotinus, published by his pupil Porphyry; -- so called because each of the six books into which it is divided contains nine chapters.

To swathe; to envelop, as in swaddling clothes. Shak.

An enthusiast; a zealot. [Obs.]

y external topical application to the body, except ointments and plasters, as a poultice, lotion, etc.

h the private interests of men and the public peace, enforcing all justice and equity. Tillotson.

Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory. Burke.

A garden plot, usually about half an acre. [Cape Colony]

ASlothful. [Obs.] Rom. of R.