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cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37.

A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.

Pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid. Ellagic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, C14H8O9, found in bezoar stones, and obtained by the oxidation of gallic acid.

Hellebore. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Helleborin.

The red gurnard or cuckoo fish. [Prov. Eng.]

See Elenge, Elengeness. [Obs.]

See Else. [Obs.]

or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus.

An ellipse. [Obs.]

An instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel.

A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a).

Pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form.

Having a form intermediate between elliptic and lanceolate.

Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends. The planets move in elliptic orbits. Cheyne.

In the form of an ellipse.

Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in reference to the figure of the earth, the difference between the equatorial and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the earth is

Same as Ellipsograph.

Formerly, a measuring rod an ell long.

sitions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.