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Capability of being educated.

Capable of being educated. "Men are educable." M. Arnold.

One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.

Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.

One who educates; a teacher.

A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer.

Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon. An effeminate and unmanly foppery. Bp. Hurd.

In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately. "Proud and effeminately gay." Fawkes.

To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.

ty of electricity; also, sometimes, and less properly, applied to an instrument which indicates the presence of electricity (usually called an electroscope). Balance electrometer. See under Balance.

a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.

To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy. [Colloq. & Sportive] "The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo." Sir W. Scott.

dentata). -- Elm butterfly (Zoöl.), one of several species of butterflies, which, in the caterpillar state, feed on the leaves of the elm (esp. Vanessa antiopa and Grapta comma). See Comma butterfly, under Comma. -- Elm moth (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of moths of which the larvæ destroy the leaves of the elm (e…

To dislocate; to luxate.

An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.

Having the edges truncated.

To implicate in confusion; to complicate; to jumble. The Christian antiquities at Rome . . . are so embroiled with Addison.

An advocate or promoter of emigration.

te portions; as, the Austrian empire. Empire carries with it the idea of a vast and complicated government. C. J. Smith.

The delicate bands of connective tissue interspersed among muscular fibers.