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To collect as into an eddy. [R.] The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson.

astic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber. [Colloq.]

ifted up; raised; elevated. With upper lip elate. Fenton. And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes, elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sir W. Jones.

The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.

Office of an elder; collectively, a body of elders.

In an American college, an optional study or course of study. [Colloq.]

an election or to electors. In favor of the electoral and other princes. Burke. Electoral college, the body of princes formerly entitled to elect the Emperor of Germany; also, a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electors chosen by the people to elect the President and Vice President.…

ric fluid, the supposed matter of electricity; lightning. -- Electrical image (Elec.), a collection of electrical points regarded as forming, by an analogy with optical phenomena, an image of certain other electrical points, and used in the solution of electrical problems. Sir W. Thomson. -- Electrical light, the lig…

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

An obsolete or colloquial contraction of the old form hem, them. Addison.

To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.] Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. South.

y on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church.

A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.

A collection of blood, pus, or other fluid, in some cavity of the body, especially that of the pleura. Dunglison.

and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

e permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.

o carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager. [Colloq.] Civil engineer, a person skilled in the science of civil engineering. -- Military engineer, one who executes engineering works of a military nature. See under Engineering.

To engird. [R.] Collins.

Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.

ite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army.