<B>elasticated, </B>adjective. <B>=elasticized.</B> <I>Ex. The shoes have ... elasticated gussets, making them easy to slip off and on (Geoffrey Charles).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="elasticclause">
<B>elastic clause,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the final clause in Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, which states that Congress may "make all laws which shall be necessary and proper," thereby allowing Congress to exercise many powers not granted to it specifically. </DL>
<A NAME="elasticcollision">
<B>elastic collision,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) a collision between two particles in which their total kinetic energy after the collision is the same as before. The particles bounce off each other and no new particles are produced by the collision. </DL>
<B>elasticity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> elastic quality. <BR> <I>Ex. Rubber has great elasticity. (Figurative.) "Good" and "bad" are words having great elasticity of meaning.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="elasticityofvolume">
<B>elasticity of volume,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the tendency of liquids and gases to return to their original volume when the deforming force is released; resistance to change of volume. The slightest force can change their shape, but no force is great enough to change their volume permanently. </DL>
<A NAME="elasticized">
<B>elasticized, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> woven or made with elastic. <BR> <I>Ex. The trousers have snaps on the elasticized waistbands to make them adjustable (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="elasticlimit">
<B>elastic limit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the maximum stress that an elastic material can sustain and still return to its original form. </DL>
<A NAME="elasticscattering">
<B>elastic scattering,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Physics.) the scattering of particles resulting from elastic collision. </DL>
<A NAME="elastin">
<B>elastin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Biochemistry.) a protein, similar to albumin, that is the basic substance of the elastic fiber of certain tissues. </DL>
<A NAME="elastohydrodynamic">
<B>elastohydrodynamic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> dealing with the elasticity of fluids under force. <BR> <I>Ex. Sometimes the film of lubricant is so thin, and the fluid pressure acting on the bearing surfaces are so high, that the elastic deformation of these surfaces cannot be ignored; the regime is then called elastohydrodynamic (Science Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="elastohydrodynamics">
<B>elastohydrodynamics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of elastohydrodynamic effects. </DL>
<A NAME="elastomer">
<B>elastomer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Chemistry.) any elastic, rubberlike substance. </DL>
<A NAME="elastomeric">
<B>elastomeric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having the properties of rubber. </DL>
<A NAME="elastoplast">
<B>elastoplast, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) <DD><B> 1. </B>an elastic adhesive tape used especially as a bandage. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>Elastoplast.</B> a trademark for this tape. </DL>
<A NAME="elate">
<B>elate, </B>verb, <B>elated,</B> <B>elating,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to raise the spirits of; make joyful or proud. <BR> <I>Ex. His success in the contest elated him.</I> (SYN) exhilarate. <DD><I>adj. </I> inspired with joy or hope; exultant with success or victory. </DL>
<A NAME="elated">
<B>elated, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> in high spirits; joyful or proud. (SYN) exultant. adv. <B>elatedly.</B> noun <B>elatedness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="elater">
<B>elater</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Botany.) an elastic, spiral filament for discharging and dispersing spores, such as that in the capsule of liverworts. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Zoology.) <B>=elaterid.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>the forked, taillike appendage of a springtail, used in leaping. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) elasticity. </DL>
<A NAME="elater">
<B>elater</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that elates. </DL>
<A NAME="elaterid">
<B>elaterid, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any of a family of beetles that can spring into the air with a snap when turned on their backs; elater; click beetle; snapping beetle. </DL>
<A NAME="elaterin">
<B>elaterin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a white, crystalline substance that is the active principle of elaterium, used as a strong cathartic. </DL>
<A NAME="elaterite">
<B>elaterite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a brown mineral hydrocarbon, usually soft and elastic like rubber. </DL>
<A NAME="elaterium">
<B>elaterium, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the dried juice of the squirting cucumber, used as a cathartic. </DL>
<A NAME="elation">
<B>elation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> high spirits; joy or pride; exultant gladness. <BR> <I>Ex. She was filled with elation at winning the prize.</I> (SYN) jubilation. </DL>
<A NAME="elayer">
<B>E layer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a layer of the ionosphere about 50 to 90 miles above the earth's surface; Heaviside layer; Kennelly-Heaviside layer; E region. It reflects radio waves. <BR> <I>Ex. An Aerobee rocket experiment recently detected a sheet of current flowing in the E layer about 60 miles up (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="elba">
<B>Elba, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a place of exile or seclusion. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the comic figure waiting for the revolution to call him back in 1968 from his self-adopted Elba in the cafes of the Left Bank (Sir Denis Brogan).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="elberta">
<B>Elberta, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of large, yellow, freestone peach, grown in the United States. </DL>
<A NAME="elbow">
<B>elbow, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the joint between the upper and lower arm; bend of the arm. <BR> <I>Ex. With elbows bent he sat, chin in his hands, fixedly staring at the TV.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any bend or corner having the same shape as a bent arm. A sharp turn in a road or river may be called an elbow. <DD><B> 3. </B>a bent joint for connecting pipes. <DD><B> 4. </B>the raised arm of a chair or the end of a sofa, for supporting the elbow. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to push with the elbow; jostle. <BR> <I>Ex. Don't elbow me off the sidewalk. The shopper elbowed her competitors at the bargain counter. (Figurative.) The small farming class have been gradually elbowed out of their holdings (Manchester Examiner).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make (one's way) by pushing. <BR> <I>Ex. He elbowed his way through the crowd.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to make one's way by pushing. <BR> <I>Ex. Caught in the mob, he began to elbow right and left.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>at one's elbow,</B> </I>close to one. <BR> <I>Ex. I found at my elbow a pretty little girl (Dickens). (Figurative.) For one of history's momentous events, the outside world had only the carefully stage-managed story told by the handful of men at Stalin's elbow (Time).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>bend</B> (<B>lift,</B> or <B>crook</B>) <B>an elbow,</B> </I>(Informal.) to drink alcoholic beverages; drink to excess. <BR> <I>Ex. I am sure they will not waste time bending an elbow with a little old corn-pone Congressman and a lot of Wyoming hillbillies (Harper's).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>out at the elbow</B> or <B>out at elbows,</B> </I>worn out; ragged; shabby; poor. <BR> <I>Ex. He was himself just now so terribly out at elbows, that he could not command a hundred pounds (Mary Martha Sherwood).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>rub elbows with,</B> </I>to mingle with (people, especially of a different social level). <BR> <I>Ex. The lunatic, clad in a dapper pinstripe, was happily rubbing elbows with the window shoppers in the village (Time).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>up to one's elbow,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>very busy. </I> <I>Ex. ... up to our elbows making damson jam (A. Robson).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>deeply involved. <BR> <I>Ex. He's up to his elbow in new schemes.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="elbowbending">
<B>elbow-bending, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) given to drinking too much. </DL>
<A NAME="elbowboard">
<B>elbowboard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the board at the bottom of a window which forms the inner sill. </DL>
<A NAME="elbowbush">
<B>elbowbush, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a shrub of the madder family, having sharply angled branches; buttonbush. </DL>
<A NAME="elbowchair">
<B>elbowchair, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a chair with elbows; armchair. </DL>
<A NAME="elbowed">
<B>elbowed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having elbows. <BR> <I>Ex. an elbowed sofa.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>shaped like an elbow; bent; curved. <BR> <I>Ex. elbowed grass.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="elbowgrease">
<B>elbow grease,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) hard work; energy. <BR> <I>Ex. The trouble with economic equality is that it denies the cash value of that extra bit of efficiency, of education, of sharpness, skill, brains, or elbow grease (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="elbowroom">
<B>elbowroom, </B>noun, or <B>elbow room,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> plenty of room; enough room or space to move or work in. <BR> <I>Ex. Sufficient new dwelling units were added to the inventory to create ... elbow room (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="elbowscissors">
<B>elbow scissors,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> scissors having a bend in the blade for convenience in cutting. </DL>
<A NAME="elbowy">
<B>elbowy, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> using elbows, as to push; elbowing. <BR> <I>Ex. elbowy arms.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="eld">
<B>eld, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD><B> 1. </B>ancient times; former times; antiquity. <BR> <I>Ex. lands that contain the monuments of eld (Byron).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>old age. <BR> <I>Ex. Weak eld hath left thee nothing wise (Edmund Spenser).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="elder">
<B>elder</B> (1), adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>older; senior. <BR> <I>Ex. my elder brother.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of longer standing; prior in rank, validity, right, obligation, or service. <BR> <I>Ex. an elder title to an estate.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>earlier; former. <BR> <I>Ex. huge as the giant race of elder times (Robert Southey).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>Usually, <B>elders.</B> an older person; one's senior. <BR> <I>Ex. Children should respect their elders. But he took the advice of his elders and refrained from bringing out his book (Edmund Wilson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person of advanced years. <DD><B> 3. </B>an ancestor. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) one of the older and more influential men of a tribe or community; one to whom age and experience have brought wisdom and judgment. <BR> <I>Ex. Miss not the discourse of the elders (Ecclesiasticus 8:9).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>an officer in a church. <DD><B> 6. </B><B>=presbyter.</B> <DD><B> 7. </B>a pastor or minister. <DD><B> 8. </B>a member of a higher priesthood in the Mormon Church. </DL>
