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Belonging to effluvia.

To give forth effluvium. [R.] "An effluviating power." Boyle.

on perceived by the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage.

The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety. It is then that the devout affections . . . are incessantly in efflux. I. Taylor.

That which flows out; effluvium; emanation. Some light effluxions from spirit to spirit. Bacon.

The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor.

The act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty.

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…

To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.

A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject.

Making clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note.

One who explains or elucidates; an expositor.

Tending to elucidate; elucidative. [R.]

To struggle out; -- with out. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

A struggling out of any difficulty. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

See Lucubrate. [Obs.] Blount.

See Lucubration. [Obs.] Evelyn.

y; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow. Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludes he eager swain. Pope. The transition from fetich…

Capable of being eluded; evadible.

The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September.