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Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.

Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric.

To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.

nst waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits. Just rich enough, with economic care, To save a pittance. Harte.

Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf.

Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic. "Edenic joys." Mrs. Browning.

Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr. ).

To sail close to the wind. I must edge up on a point of wind. Dryden. To edge away or off (Naut.), to increase the distance gradually from the shore, vessel, or other object. -- To edge down (Naut.), to approach by slow degrees, as when a sailing vessel approaches an object in an oblique direction from the windward.…

Having an edge planed, -- said of a board. Knight.

ieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed away without effecting their purpose. Jowett (Th. ).

Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells.

Age; esp., old age. [Obs. or Archaic] As sooth is said, eelde hath great avantage. Chaucer. Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld. Spenser.

ty; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.

Derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.

Of or pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary. Faraday.

ms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc. That grace that elegance affords. Drayton. The endearing elegance of female friendship. Johnson. A trait of native elegance, seldom seen in the masculine character after c…

Having the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; -- said of both plant and flower.

To raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; -- said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice.

The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.

See Corposant; also Saint Elmo's Fire, under Saint.