Egg Powders Desiccated Eggs
Egg Powders. Desiccated Eggs. And Egg Substitutes. Several Methods Of Evaporating Or Desiccating Eggs Have Been Proposed. And Product: Which Claim To Be Prepared In These Ways Are Now On The Market. The Egg Is Dried In Or Out Of A Vaenum, Usually By A Gentle Heat Or By Currents ...
Eggs Of The Lower
Eggs Of The Lower Invertebrates. The Eggs Of The Squids And Other Cephalopod Mollusks Are Enveloped In A Tough Viscid Membrane, And Stick Together In Masses, Called 'sea-grapes.' Which Ad Here To Some Fixed Object. They Contain Much Food-yolk. And The Young Are Well Advanced Be Fore Leaving The Shell. ...
Eggs Or Insects
Eggs Or Insects. Eggs And Their Deposition Among The Insects Present A Great Variety Of In Teresting Phenomena. Of Which Only A Sketch May Be Given Here. In Many Cases In This Class The Eggs Arc So Carefully Placed As To Insure The Survival Of Almost Every One, And In ...
Eggs Or Reptiles And
Eggs Or Reptiles And Amphibians. Most Reptiles Are Oviparous, Laying Eggs. Either Globu Lar Or Oblong In Shape, Closely Resembling Birds' Eggs In Composition Of Yolk, Albumen, And Cov Erings, Except That The Shell Is Not Calcareous, But Of A Tough, Yellowish-white, Parchment-like (co•i Aceous) Material. "these Are Usually Deposited ...
Egret
Egret (fr. Aigrette, Diminutive Of Dia Lectic (won, Of. Hiron, Fr. 11( Ron. Heron). A Name Often Given To Various Species Of Heron (q.v.), Particularly Those Of White Plumage Whiell, At Least During The Breeding Season, Have The Feathers On The Lower Part Of The Hack Lengthened And Their Barbs ...
Egypt
Egypt. A Country Occupying The Northeast Corner Of Africa. Egypt Proper Extends From The Mediterranean South To The Latitude Of 22° N. (for An Account Of The Agreement Between The British And Egyptian Governments, January 19, 1599. See Egyptian Siman.) Thu Boundary On The East Is The Red Sea, And ...
Egypt After T 11
Egypt After T 11 E Fall Of Lion E. A Ter The Fall Of The Boman Empim Egypt Almost Dis Appeared From The Knowledge Of Europe; Inn It Occupied An Important Place In The Mohammne Dan World. It Was Conquered By The .\rabs Under Alma, (a.o. 639-41). And In 96!) ...
Egypt And
Egypt And Assyimla. Among The Egyptians The Earliest Rings Were Extremely Simple, Either Single Hoops Of Gold, From 1 To 3 Inches In Diameter, Or Several Hoops—as Many As Six—soldered To Gether. Royal Earrings Were Sometimes In The Shape Of An Asp, Set With Precious Stones. Later Forms, Copied From ...
Egyptian Art
Egyptian Art. The Art Of Egypt Is, Next To That Of Babylonia. The Earliest In The World's History. Its Origins Have Been Investigated During The Last Live Years With Better Success Than Ever Before, Especially By English A Mine Ologists, Such As Petrie, And French Explorers, As De Morgan. The ...
Egyptian Music
Egyptian Music. The Information Which We Possess About Egyptian Music Is Ex Tremely Meagre. It Is Derived Either From In Adequate Accounts Of Ancient Greek Authors, Or From Illustrations And Speeimens Of Their Musical Instruments. We Do, However, Know That Music, Crude And Imperfect As Their Form Of It Was, ...
Egyptian Sudan
Egyptian Sudan. That Part Of North East Africa, Under Anglo-egyptian Control, Lying South Of Egypt, With Its Northern Limit At The Twenty-second Parallel Of Latitude, And Bounded On The East By The Red Sea, Eritrea, And Abys Sinia, On The Southeast By British East Africa, On The South By German ...
Egyptology
Egyptology. The Study Of The Language, History, And Antiquities Of Ancient Egypt. One Who Engages In Such Studies Is Termed An Egyp Tologist. As Early As The Sixteenth Century The Monuments Of Egypt Began To Attract The Atten Tion Of European Scholars. And Between 159 And 1589 Some Ineffectual Attempts ...
Eider
Eider (icel. A'pr, Eider). An Oceanic Duck, Having The Hind Toe Furnished With A Deep Lobe, And The Bill Swollen And Elevated At The Base, And Extending Up The Forehead, Where It Is Di Vided Down The Middle By An Elongated Projec Tion Of Feathers. The Tertials Are Elongated. And ...
Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower. A Colossal Structure Erect Ed In The Champs De Mars. At Paris, By The Famous Engineer Gustave Eiffel (q.v.). It Was Completed March 31, 1889. In Time To Serve As One Of The Notable Features Of The Exposition Of That Year. The Lower Section Of The Tower Consists ...
Eight Hour Day
Eight-hour Day. The Tight-hour Day As The Ideal Working Day Was Proposed In Eng Land As Early As 18:33. A Trade-union Congress At Birmingham Demanded In 1869 That The Eight Hour Day Should Be Adopted Throughout The United Kingdom. With The Growth Of The Social Democratic Federation In The Early ...
Eikon Basilike
Eikon Basilike, •c111-10. ( Gk. Elkedv Flacre)ito5, Kingly Likeness). The Name Of A Book. The Full Title Of Which Is Eikf2n Ba L.tiiiil, The Pourtraieture Of His Sacred Majestic In His Solitudes And Sufferings (161s). It Was Pub• Fished Probably At The Hague. And, Appearing Immediately After The Execution Of ...
Eileithyia
Ei'leithy'ia (lat., From Gk. Eixeitivia ), Or Eilei'thyas'polis. The Greek Name Of The Ancient Egyptian City Of Nekheb (the Modern El-kai)), Situated On The Right Hank Of The Nile, A Little Below Edfu. From Very Ancient Times It Was One Of The Most Important Cities Of Egypt. And Was Strongly ...
Einhard
Einhard, Frequently But Erroneous Ly Called Eginhaiad, (c.770-840). The Biographer Of Charles The Great.. He Re Ceived His Early Education In The Monastery Of Fulda, Where Lie Did So Well That He Was Sent To Finish His Education At The School In The Palace Of Charles The Great. Ifis Talents ...
Einsiedeln
Einsiedeln, A Town In The Canton Of Schwyz. Switzerland, 2(3 Miles South East Of Zuri Lt. It Is Visited Yearly By 150,000 Pilgrims. Most Of Whom Come From Switzerland And Southern Germany (map: Switzerland. C L I. There Arc Numerous Hotels And Inns For The De Vout Worshipers. The Prineipal ...
Eisenach
Eisenach, Rze-nito. A Town Of The Grand Duchy Of Saxe-weimar, And Former Residence Of The Principality Of Eisenach. Situated At The Northwestern End Of The Thuringian Forest And At The Confluenee Of The Nesse With The 45 Miles West Of Weimar (map: Ger Many, D 3). The Town Is Well ...
Eisteddfod
Eisteddfod, 3s-ta7;d'va\d (welsh, From Eisteaid, To It -4- Mod, Circle). A Welsh Word. Meaning Literally 'sitting.' Or 'session.' It Is Applied To The Assemblies Of Bards And People, Of Which There Are Two Sorts—the National Or General Body, And The Provincial Gatherings Which Take Place In Many Parts Of \vales, ...
Eiyison
Eiyison, Tuomas Alv.t (1817— ). A Cele Brated American Electrician And Inventor. Lie Was Born At Milan, Ohio, February Ii. 1847. And When He Was Seven Years Of Age His Family Moved To Port Huron, Mich., Where The Remainder Of His Boyhood Was Passed. While A Mere Lad He Started ...
Ejectment
Ejectment (from Eject, From Lat. Cjiccre, To Throw Out, From C, Out Jay( Cc, To Throw), Action Or. An Action Brought To Recover Posses Sion Of Land, And Also To Obtain Damages For Its Being Wrongfully Withheld From The Person Who Brings The Suit. This, In The Common Hue Prac ...
Ekaterinoslav
Ekaterinoslav. A Government In South Hounded By The Governments Of Pol Tava And Kharkov On The North, The Province Of The Don Cossacks On The East, The Sea Of Azov And The Government Of Taurida On The South, And Kherson On The West (slap: Russia, E 5). Its Area Is ...
Ekron
Ek'ron (heb. 'egria, Probably Connected With 'agar, Ar. `figira. Sterile). The Most North Erly Of The Five Cities Of The Philistines (joshua Xiii. 31. It Was Assigned To Judah (joshua Xv. 45). Hut Afterwards Given To Dan (josh Ua Six. 43). After Joshua's Death Judah Again Possessed It. (judges I. ...
El Dorado
El Dorado, Pron. (.16-rii'do (sp., The Gilded). A Term Applied. First To A South Ameri Can King Said To Cover His Body Annually With Gold-dust And Bathe In A Sacred Lake, Then To A Fabled Golden City. And Filially To A Fabled Country Abounding, To An Almost Inconceivable Degree In ...
Elam
E'lam. A Country Including The High Plateau Traversed By The Zagros And Pushti Chains And The Great Plain East Of The Lower Tigris And North Of The Persian Gulf. It Corresponded In A General Way To The Modern Khuzistan, In Part To The Susiana And Elymals Of The Greek Classi ...
Eland
Eland (dutch, Elk, Ger. Mead, Lith. Anis, Stag. Gk. Xxos.,ellos, Fawn). The Largest Of Afri Can Antelopes (arias Canna). It Is So Bovine In General Appearance That It Was At Once Called 'elk' By The Dutch Pioneers Of South Africa, And The Males And Females Are Yet Spoken Of As ...
Elasipoda
El'asip'oda. See Holotiiltrian. Elas1viobranchii, ( Nen Lat. Nom. Pi., From Gk. Aaauds, Elasmos, Metal Plate Fipci7xta, Branchia, Gills), Or Cliondrop. Terygii. A Group Of Fishes Whose Skeleton Con Sists Of Cartilage And Connective Tissue Alone. There Being No Distinct Bones Present, Eompris. Ing Only The Sharks, Rays, And Chimaeras. The ...
Elasticity
Elasticity (from Gk. Elm/nein. To Drive, Set In Motion). A General Property Of Matter (see I\iarreal In Virtue Of Which, If It Is Strained In Any Way By Beaus Of A Force, It Returns To Its Former Condition More Or Less Per Fectly When The Force Is Removed. Soups. A ...
Elath
E'lath. Tim Modern.akaltab, A Seaport Situ Ated In The Extreme South Of Ldumata, At The Head Of The (full Of Akabab. Affording To Dent. Ii. It Was Tine Of The Stations Of The Israelites On The Route From Egypt. It Is Probably A Later Desig Nation Of El-pa•an ((:en, Xiv. ...
Elbe
Elbe. Mlle (dialectic .1 The, (mg. Elba. Alba, From 011g. Elf. Icel. (ur, River: Called By The Romans Albis, By Popular Confusion With Alb Us. White, And By The Bohemians Lobe). An Im Portant River Of Central Europe (map: Ger Many, D 2). It Originates In The Confluence Of Numerous ...
Elberfeld
Elberfeld, Idwr-fselt. One Of The Most Important Manufacturing Towns In Germany, Situated On Both Sides Of The Wupper. An Affluent Of The Rhine. In The Prussian Rhino Province, 16 Miles East-northeast Of Dusseldorf (map: Ger Many. B 2). The Old Parts Of The Town Are Somewhat Poorly Him 1. With ...
Elberfeld System
Elberfeld System. The Manufactur Ing Town Of Elberfeld, Prussia, Has Become Famous For Its Plan Of Relieving The Poor. The Reform Began In I Soo. Wiwn, With Existing Conditions, The City Appointed Six Vis To Investigate Applications For Relief. The Visitors Were Increased To Twelve The Following Year. In 1802 ...
Elctrolysis
Elctrolysis. :\letal Wires Are Not The Only Conductors For Electric Currents. Although They Are The Imes Most Emninonly Seen. :many Liquids Are Conductors, And All Gases May He Made To Conduct. To Pass A Current Through A Liquid Or A Gas, Wires Must. He Used So As To Conduct The ...
Eldad And Iniedad I
El'dad And Inie'dad. ( I) Two Persons Mentioned In Num. Xi. 26-29 As Prophesying, Though Not Present With Aloses And The Seventy Elders At The Tent Of The Meeting When Jehovah Gave His Spirit. Joshua Is Said To Have De Manded That They Be Forbidden. Lint Moses Him Self Is ...
Elder
Elder (i Te. Cider, Oh% As. Ellen. Elder• Tree). A Tree Or Shrub Of The Genus Sambuens, Which Belongs To The Order Caprifoliace:r. There Are About 2tt Widely Distributed Species. The Common Elder Of Europe (8mnbucus Nigro) Is A Large Shrub Or Sometimes A Small Tree. With Large Compound Leaves ...
Elder As
Elder (as. Ot/dor, Coati,. Of Cold, Old, 011g.. Ger. Alt. Old: Connected With Loth. Ohm Icel. Oft, Lat. We Re, To Nourish. As An Ecclesias , Tical Title An Exact Translation Of The Greek Irpea- Prtsbyteros. Comparative Of Wpfatif S, Pres Bys, Old. Which Ocenrs Frequently In The New Testament ...
Eldon
El'don, Lord (joitx Scorrl (17.51-18381. Lord High Chancellor Of England. And One Of The Greatest Of English Judges: Born At New Castle-on-tyne. June 4. 1751. In 17116 He Went To Oxford, Where His Brother Was Then A Tutor, And Entered Cniversity College. In 1770 Lie Took His Baeldor's Degree. And ...
Election
Election (lat. Ek•tio, Choice. From Ciigerc, To Choose. From C, Out To Select I. As A Legal Term. The Choice. Or The Right Or Duty To Choose, Between Two Incon-istent Alternative Right: Or Benefits. These Rights May Be Accorded By Contract. As When A Purchaser Of Property Stipulates For The ...
Election_2
Election. In Theological Language, The Divine Act By Which Certain Individuals Are Chosen To Salvation In Christ. As Cxpre-sed In The Articles Of Religion Of The Church Of England. Election Is The Doctrine Of Everlasting Purpose. Whereby The Lath Constantly Decreed By Secret Counsel To Deliver From Cure And Damnation ...
Election_3
Election. In Politics, Is The Choice Of Pub Lic By The Vote Of Those Who Are Entitled To Exerei-e The Elective Franchise. This Is To He Dis Tinguished. On The One Hand, From The Appointment Of Officers By A Superior, As By A King, A President, C R A Dtay”r; ...
Electiuc
Electiuc In The Neighborhood Of Any Charged Body, Forces Are Noticed If Other Charges Are Brought Near Or Moved About It Is Said To Lie Surrounded By A 'field Of Force.' The 'direction' Of The Field At Any Point Is Defined As That In Which A Particle Of Matter Positively ...
Elective Courses
Elective Courses And Elective Studies. Terms That Have Come Into Common Use During The Lint Thirty Or Forty Years Ill And To Some Extent In Other Educational Establishments, To Indicate The Stud Ies Nn Hieh May He Elected Or Chosen By Under Graduate Students. In Earlier Days There Was A ...
Electoral College
Electoral College. In The Political Of The Cnited States, The Body Of Electors In Each State Who Have Been Chosen To Select The President And 'vice-president. The Expression Does Not Appear In The Constitution Or Statutes, But Is A Popular Designation Of The Electors, Adopted Analogy To The College Of ...
Electoral Commission
Electoral Commission. In United States History, The Body Of Men Provided For By An Act Of Congress. Approved January 29. 1877. To Settle •eertain Disputed Questions In Regard To The Electoral Votes Of Several States In The Presi Dential Election Of 1s7(i. As The Counting Of The (doctoral Votes In ...
Electoral Votes
Electoral Votes. The Votes East By Presidential Electors In The United States For The Presidential And Vice-presidential Email Dates. The Candidates For The Two Omits Were Not Voted For Separately Until After 1805, Before Which Time The Candidate Receiving The Largest Total Number Of Votes At Any Given Election Was ...
Electors
Electors, Geint.tx Lucent.u, (lat.. From Cligcre, To Choose). In The Holy Roman Empire. The College Of Lay And Ecclesiastical Princes In Whom The Right Of Choosing The King Of The Romans Was Vested. With The Extinction Of The Carolingian Line After The Breaking Up Of The Empire Of Charles The ...
Electric Arc
Electric Arc. The Effect Produced When An Electric Current Is Maintained Between Two Electrodes Or Termmals At A Gap Or Opening In The Circuit. This Phenomenon Involves The Pro Duction Of Light And The Generation Of Heat. And Consequently The Are Is Employed For Purposes If Illumination As Well As ...
Electric Eel
Electric Eel. This Fish ( Gym Not Us, Or Electro Phornq,c1crtricur) Inhabits The Rivers Of The Basin Of The Amazon And Tfrinoco, Wherever They Are Warm And Sluggish. It Is In Shape Like A Thick, Stout. Blackish. Scaleless Eel. And May Grow To Be Six Feet Long: Hut It Differs ...
Electric Heater
Electric Heater. A Device For The Conversion Of Electricity Into Heat For Purposes Of Artificial Heating. Electric Heaters Consist Essen Tially Of Eoils Or Circuits Of Some Refractory Metal Through Which The Current Is Passed, These Coils Or Circuits Being Surrounded By Air Or Some Insulating Material. And The Whole ...
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting. Illumination Pro Duced By The Conversion Of Electrical Energy Into Light, Practically Always Through The Agency Of Either Arc Or Incandescent Lamps. The Electrical Energy, Or Electric Current, Is Produced By Dy Namos (see Dynamo-electric Machinery), Driven Most Frequently By Either Steam-engines Or Water-power, And Sometimes By Other ...
Electric Meter
Electric Meter. An Instrument To Measure And Record The Consumption Of Electrical Energy. The First Electric Meter Was The Edison Chemical Meter. Used Extensively In The Early Day- Of Incandescent Lighting. In This Instru Ment The Current Is Measured By The Amount Of Chemical Action Which Place In An Electro ...
Electric Railways
Electric Railways. Pa Il Ways On Nvhich The Cars Or Trains Are Propelled By Electric Power. Either Transmitted From Central Power Sta Tions Or Supplied By Accumulators Or Storage Batteries Carried On The Cars Themselves. The First Attempt To Build An Electric Railway Of Which There Is Any Record Was ...
Electric Railways_2
Electric Railways. Conduit Elec Tric Railways Are Those Having Some Form Of Conduit Or Trough Below The Level Of The Rails, Either Between Them Or At The Side Of The Track. Usually There Is A Short Or Continuous Opening To The Street. Through Which The 'plow' Projects From The Bottom ...
Electrical Machine
Electrical Machine (from Eig Rie, From Lat. Electrum. (1k. Li\o:rpoe, •cktron,amber: Emmected With 17x/srwp, Mektar, Bright Sun. Skt. Arka, Sun, From Arr. To Shine). 1n Instrument Which Generates Electricity By Friction Or By The Inductive Action Of One Set Of Conductors On Another. It Is Believed That The Earliest Known ...
Electricity
Electricity, Few Sciences Can Claim As Great An Antiquity As That Of Electricity. It Is Believed That Thales Of Miletus (c.640-546 U.e.) Knew That Amber. After Being Rubbed. Acquired The Property Of Attracting Bodies: And Theophrastus (e.372-2s7 N.c.). In His Treatise On (1(i/is. Mentions The Fact That This Power Is ...
Electro Chemical Efactions
Electro-chemical Efactions. A System In Which Chemical Energy Is Transformed Into Elec Trical Is Termed A Galvanic Or Voltaic Cell, And A Combination Of Two Or More Cells Is Termed A Galvanic Or Voltaic Battery. One Of The First Questions That La:mir:illy Suggest Themselves To The Student Of Elect Ro-chemistry ...
Electro Chemistry
Electro - Chemistry, Nlit":strial. Flectio-•licmical Processes Are Now Employed In Extracting Metals From Their Ores And In Parting Them From Their Alloys; In The Deposition Of Certain Of The Liner Metals Upon The Surfaces Of Baser Metals. And Other In The Manu Facture Of Various Chemical Products Employed In The ...
Electro Ciiemical Series
Electro-ciiemical Series. The Potential-dif Ferences Established Between Metals And Their Salts Are Now Known For A Number Of Different Metals. A Detailed Explanation Of The Principles On Which They Are Determined Would Carry Ns Somewhat Beyond The Scope Of This Article. Suf Fice It Therefore To State That The Starting-point ...
Electro Culture Of Plants
Electro-culture Of Plants. The Culture Of Plants Under Electric Stimulus. It Has Long Been Known That Plants Respond To Electric Stimuli, And Many Investigations Have Been Made To Ascertain Practical Means Of Realiz Ing The Benefits Of This Force. The Subject Naturally Divides Itself Into The Direct Use Of The ...
Electro Plating 1
Electro-plating. .1 Process By Means Of Which Salts Of Gold. And Other Precious Metals Are Decomposed By The Galvanic Current, And A Coating Of Their Metals Is Deposited On The :surface Of Objects Made Of Some Cheaper Metal. In 183s, Jacobi, Of Saint Petersburg, Published A Description Of A Method ...
Electrocution
Electrocution (from Gk. Outcrpop, Elek From Amber. Electricity; A Barbarous Formation On The Analogy Of Execution). A Method Of In Flicting The Death Penalty By Passing Through The Body Of The Doomed Criminal A Current Of Elec Tricity. It Represents The Latest Attempt To Rob The Infliction Of The Death ...
Electrolysis Of Gas And
Electrolysis Of Gas And Water Mains (from Gk. 1nkrpop. Efektron. Amber Lysis, Discu1olion, Horn No Elf, Lytin, To Loosen. The Eating Away Or Disintegrating Of The Metal. Caused By Stray Elect Riea 1 Currents. Elect Tie St•eet-railway Systems Are Chiefly Responsible For This Action, Through The Lack Of Proper Facilities ...
Electrometer
Electrometer Tik. .6xekrpop, Elek Iron, Amber Farpov. Met Run, In Strument For Measuring The Difference Of Electro Static Potential Between Two Charged Conductors. The Electroscope (q.v.) And The Torsion Balance Q.v.) Are Forms Of Electrometers. And Can Be Used To Indicate The Amount Of Electricity With Which A Given Mduct ...
Electrophorus
E'lectroph'orus (neo-lat.. From Gk. 3jx00-pop. Rickiron. Amber -rpopos, -phoros, Bear Ing, From Cpepftp. Idurcii), To Bear). This Appa Ratus Consists Of A Circular Disk Of Hard Rubber. Vulcanite. Shellac, Or Other Insulating Material On A Metallic Surface Or Form, And A Movable Metal Cover With An Insulating Handle. The Disk ...
Electroscope
Electroscope (from Gk. Tixekroop, •lek Iron, Amber -- O-kotrae, Skopei». To Look). An Instrument For The Detection Of The Presence Of Electricity. It Depends For Its Action On The Prin Ciple That Bodies Charged With Like Electricity Repel, While Those Charged With Unlike Electricity Attract. Each Other. The Ordinary Pith-ball ...
Electrostatics Fundamental
Electrostatics. Fundamental Pliendmf:na. Said Before. Primary Fuel Of Eleetrieity Is That, Whet, Two Bodies Are Brought In Contact And Then Separated, They Acquire The Power Of Attracting -mall Tions Of Matter. Further, The Two Bodies Which Are Thus Charged Attract Each Other. A- Ma; Be Shown By Suspending One So ...
Electrotyping
Electrotyping Is One Of The Most Important Applications Of Electrochemistry. For Repro Ducing Printing-type The Process Is As Follows; An Impression Of The Type Is Taken In Wax, Which Is Then Brushed With A Coating Of Black Lead And Suspended As The Cathode In A Bath Of Sulphate Of Copper; ...
Elements
Elements, Tine Of The Prin Cipal Problems Of Psychology Is To Analyze Into Their Simplest Constituent Processes The Mental Complexes (perceptions, Ideas. Emotions. Actions) That Occur In Every-day Experience. These Sim Plest, Unanalyzahle Processes Are Termed The 'ele Ments Of Consciousness.' See Consciousness. We Must, First Of All, Get A ...
Eleonora Duse
Duse, Eleonora ( 1859—). An Ital Ian Actress, Born At Vigevano. On The Border Of Piedmont And Lombardy. Hers Was A Family Of Actors, Her Grandfather Having Founded The Garibilldi Theatre In Padua, And She Appeared On The Stage When Thirteen Years Old. Her Early Stage Life In Itinerant Companies ...
Elephant
Elephant (as. Cipend. Of. Olifant, En Fant, Lat. Clop/as. From (;k. :\ercbas, Possibly From El, Arm. E.;, Horn + -upas, -ctlts, La T. Char, Ivory. From Egypt. Nba. (lb, Copt. Cdots, Elephant I. An Ungulate(' Mammal Of The Suborder Proboscidea And Family Represent Ing By Two Species The Largest Existing ...
Elephantiasis
El'ephanti'asis ( Lat., From Gk. Inutiav Rlaals, From Aitbas, Dephas, Elephant, Sn Exiled Because The Skin Becomes Wrinkled Like The Hide Of An Elephant). A Medical Term Applied To Any Marked Hypertrophy Of The Skin And Areolar Tissues, Though Generally Used To Designate A Disease Accompanied By (edema And Progressive ...
Eleusis
Eleu'sis (lat., From Gk. 'exeves, Properly Place Of Resort, From Nettolt, C/cusis, A Going, Cl•usesthai, To Be About To Go). A Town In Attica, Near The Northern Shore Of The Gulf Of Salamis, Ant Far From The Confines Of Me Garis. It Was The Chief Seat Of The Worship Of ...
Elevator
Elevator (lat. C/crator, Raiser, From E/c Rare, To Raiser Or Lift. A Meellanieal Contriv Ance For Transporting Passengers Or Freight Be Tween Points At Different Levels. Such As The Sever Al Stories Of A Building. The Modern High-speed Passenger Elevator Is Usually Operated By Hy Or Electric Power, And It ...
Elgin
Elgin, Eighth Earl Of, And Kincardine, Htelfth Earl Of. .1.vmes Ce 1-63). A British Diplomat And Statesman, The Son Of The Preceding. Ile Was Lawn In London. And Was Educated At Eton And Christ Church. Ox Fo•d, Where He Graduated. M.a. In 1833. In 1841 Southampton Elected Him A Liberal-con ...
Elgin Marbles
Elgin Marbles. A Eeleb•ated Collection Of Ancient Sculptures. Brought From Greece By Thomas, Seventh Earl Of Elgin, And Acquired From Him For The British Alliseinn. On Ap Pointment As Ambassador To The Porte In 1790, Lord Elgin Prepared To Have Drawings And Casts Made Of The Athenian Sculptures. But Vexatious ...
Elijah
Eli'jah (ileb. Yahweh Is Find: In The Greek Form. Oeeu•ring In The New Testament, 'hx1as, Elias). A Hebrew Prophet Of An Early Type, Who, However. Helps To Inaugurate The Movement That Leads To The Triumph Of Ethical Monotheism Among The Hebrews. The Story Of Elijah Is Elaborately Told, Chiefly In ...
Eliot
Eliot, Sir Jolts (1592-11132). An English Patriot And Statesman. Horn At Port Eliot, Cornwall, April 20. 1502. Ile Spent Three Years At Exeter College, Oxford. Where. However. He Did Not Take A Degree. And After Studying Law Trav Eled On The Continent, Where He Became Friendly With C:eorge Villiers, Afterwards ...
Eliphaz
El'iphaz. One Of The Friends Of .lob. Lie Is Described In Job Ii. 11 As A Temanite. The Repu Tation For Wisdom Of The Edomites Probably Ac Counts For The Choice Of A Native Of The Edomitish District Of Teman As The Leader Of The Three Friends. In The Dialogues, ...
Elisha
Eli'sha ( I;od Is Deliverance). A Prophet Of Israel, Who Continued The Move Ment Of Elijah Against The Baal Cult. The Story Of His Career Is Told In 11. Kings Ii., Ix., Xiii. As Follows: He Was The Son Of Shaphat, And Lived At Abel-meholall. Where, Until His Call, He ...
Elizabeth
Eliz'abeth. \ City And County-seat Of Union County. N. J.. 12 Miles Southwest Of New York And 4 Miles Southwest Of Newark; On Both Sides Of The Elizabeth River And On Newark Bay And Staten Island Sound; Reached By The New Jersey Central And Pennsylvania Railroads, The Latter Of Which ...
Elizabeth 1533 1603 1
Elizabeth ( 1533-1603 1. Queen Of England. She Was The Daughter Of Ilenry Viii. And The Unfortunate Anne Boleyn, And Was Born Septem Her 7. 1533. While She Was Yet In Her Third Year Her Mother Was Beheaded. After The Moth Er's. Execution Elizabeth Was Sent To The Country, Where ...
Elizabeth Petrovna 1709 021
Elizabeth Petrov'na ( 1709-021 . Em Press Of Russia From 1741 To 1762. She Was The Daughter Of Peter The Great And Catharine I., And Was Born December 29, 1709. On The Death Of Her Nephew. Peter 11., In 1730. She Suffered Anna, Duchess Of Courland. Daughter Of Ivan V., ...
Elizabethan Architecture
Elizabethan Architecture. A Term Applied To The Mixed Style \allied' Sprang Imp On The Decline Of Gothic Architecture. By Some It Is Eonfused With The Tudor Style (q.v.), Out Of Which It Sprang. Time Elizabjthan Is Chiefly Ex Emplified By Mansions Erected For The Nobility In The Reigns Of Elizabeth ...
Elk As
Elk (as. Etch, Teel. Elgr, Ohg. Elaho, Elk, Ger. Eleh, Whence Probably Lat. Alees. Gk. Cam, Elk). (1) The Greatest Forest-deer (alves Mulch Is) Of The Northern Regions Of Europe. Asia, And America. And The Largest Existing Representa Tive Of The Family. It Is Known In America As The Moose. ...
Energy
Energy. Since When A Body Is Charged By Bringing It In Intimate Contact With Another Body, E.g. Glass With Silk, And Then Separating Them. One Is Charged Positively And The Other Negatively, It Requires Work To Pull Them Apart. The Electrical Separation. Therefore. Has An Amount Of Energy Equal To ...
Ethnology
Ethnology. The Ancient Egyptians Believed Themselves To Be An Indigenous People, Free From All Foreign Admixture, And All The Known Facts Tend To Favor Their Contentiy). Both Their Lan Guage And Their Physical Characteristics Show That They Belonged To The Hamitic Branch Of The Caucasian Race. The White Inhabitant: Of ...
Faraday Effect
Faraday Effect. Faraday Observed In 1s45 That. If A Beam Of Plane Polarized Light Is Passed Through A Hollow Iron Rod Forming The Core Of An Electromagnet. The Plane Of Polarization (see 1.1w•r) Is Rotated When The Current Is Passed Around The Mix Forming The Magnet. The Rota Tion Is ...