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emove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

Making no effort. Southey.

One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self. I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness. Carlyle.

or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving. Ill-natured feeling, or egoistic pleasure in making men miserable. G. Eliot.

The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self- praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism. His excessive egotism, which filled all objects with himself. Hazl…

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.

The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.

The art or process of making electrographs or using an electrograph.

The art or process of making electrical measurements.

The act or the process of making electrotypes.

essive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution. "The elocution of a reader." Whately

age either spoken or written, thereby producing conviction or persuasion. Eloquence is speaking out . . . out of the abundance of the heart. Hare.

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.

The act of making very lean.

Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.

To engage in any affair. Slow to embark in such an undertaking. Macaulay.

Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.

Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient. "Emollient applications." Arbuthnot.

A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience. The province of emphasis is so much more important than accent, that the customary seat of the latter is changed, when the claims of emp…