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Teachableness. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U. S.]

The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.

A white, sugarlike substance, C6H8.(OH)2, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.

Sweetness. [R.] Cockeram.

Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic] Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. I. Watts.

The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.

eripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal ova.

Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity. Bacon.

Efficacy. [R.] J. Fryth.

l of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; the elasticity of the air.

Atmospheric electricity, any condition of electrical disturbance in the atmosphere or clouds, due to some or all of the above mentioned causes. (e) Magnetic electricity, electricity developed by the action of magnets. (f) Positive electricity, the electricity that appears at the positive pole or anode of a battery, or…

Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident. [Obs.] "An elicit act of equity." Jer. Taylor.

To elicit. [Obs.]

The act of eliciting. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.

tween the equatorial and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the earth is

See Bornite.

Evangelicism.

. (Math.) Same as Eccentricity.

The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.

Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.