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A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under Confection.

Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.

The positive pole of a voltaic battery.

The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. Foster.

To vex with lectures; to lecture frequently.

An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election.

The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery. Faraday.

Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus.

e condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

See Electron.

Highly pleasing; delightful. Delectable both to behold and taste. Milton. -- De*lec"ta*ble*ness, n. -- De*lec"ta*bly, adv.

To delight; to charm. [R.]

Great pleasure; delight.

A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek. G. Eliot.

Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor. separating a body electrified by induction, from the electrifying body.

Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.

Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used. Hydro-electric machine (Physics), an apparatus invented by Sir William Armstrong of England for generating electricity by the escape of high-pressure steam from a series of jets connected with…

Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric. -- n.

Not delectable; unpleasant; disagreeable. [R.] Richardson.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, electricity by the action of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction. Magneto-electric machine, a form of dynamo-electric machine in which the field is maintained by permanent steel magnets instead of electro-magnets.