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A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals. J. J. Rousseau.

tic magazine. Eclectic physician, one of a class of practitioners of medicine, who select their modes of practice and medicines from all schools; formerly, sometimes the same as botanic physician. [U.S.] -- Eclectic school. (Paint.) See Bolognese school, under Bolognese.

To suffer an eclipse. While the laboring moon Eclipses at their charms. Milton.

aking a corner. -- Edge mill, a crushing or grinding mill in which stones roll around on their edges, on a level circular bed; -- used for ore, and as an oil mill. Called also Chilian mill. -- Edge molding (Arch.), a molding whose section is made up of two curves meeting in an angle. -- Edge plane. (a) (Carp.) A pla…

is church. Bp. Hall. Out of these magazines I shall supply the town with what may tend to their edification. Addison.

d to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects. For effect, for an exaggerated impression or excitement. -- In effect, in fact; in substance. See 8, above. -- Of no effect, Of none effect, To no effect, or Without effect, destitute of results, validity, force,…

the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow. Hawthorne.

To form; to shape. [Obs.] Efforming their words within their lips. Jer. Taylor.

, of Europe; and the American snowy egret (A. candidissima). A bunch of egrets killed for their plumage. G. W. Cable.

An island in a river; an ait. [Obs.] "Osiers on their eights." Evelyn.

A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.

An order of holothurians mostly found in the deep sea. They are remarkable for their bilateral symmetry and curious forms. [Written also Elasmopoda.]

The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; the elasticity of the air.

Older; more aged, or existing longer. Let the elder men among us emulate their own earlier deeds. Jowett (Thucyd. )

a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder. "My lady's eldest son." Shak. Their eldest historians are of suspected credit. Bp. Stillingfleet. Eldest hand (Card Playing), the player on the dealer's left hand. R. A. Proctor.

ing to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral. The independent use of their elective franchise. Bancroft.

Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.

essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed.

away with a paramour or a sweetheart. Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance. Addison.

f eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.