either 
according to one choice or supposition (in a 
series of two or more): a disjunctive conjunc- 
tion, preceding one of a series of two or more al- 
ternative clauses, and correlative with or before 
the following clause or clauses. Sometimes, as 
in poetry, or is used before the first clause also. 
It befallethe sumtyme, that Cristene men becomen 
Sarazines, outlier for povertee, or for symplenesse, or elles 
for here owne wykkednesse. Mandcoille, Travels, p. 141. 
Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a 
journey, or peradventure he sleepeth. 1 Ki. xviii 27. 
Celia. Twas he in black and yellow. 
Duch. Nay, 'tis no matter, either for himself 
Or for the affection of his colours. 
Midaleton, More Dissemblers Besides Women, ii. 1. 
2. In any case ; at all : used adverbially, for 
emphasis, after a sentence expressing a nega- 
tion of one or two alternatives, or of all alter- 
natives: corresponding to too similarly used 
after affirmative sentences : as, he tried it, and 
didn't succeed; then I tried it, but I didn't 
succeed, either. That's mine ; no, it isn't, either. 
[Colloq.] 
ejaculate (e-jak'u-lat), v. ; pret. and pp. ejacu- 
lated, ppr. ejaculating. [< L. ejaculates, pp. of 
ejaculari (> F. ejaculer = Pg. ejacular), cast 
out, throw out, < e, out, + jaculari, throw, dart, 
< jaculum, a missile, a dart, < jacere, throw : 
see eject, jet 2 .] I. trans. 1. To throw out; 
cast forth; Shootout; dart. [Archaic, except 
in technical use.] 
If he should be disposed to do nothing, do you think 
that a party or a faction strong enough ... to ejaculate 
Mr. Van Buren out of the window . . . would permit 
him to do nothing? . Choate, Addresses, p. 337. 
A tall . . . gentleman, coming up, brushed so close to 
me in the narrow passage that he received the full benefit 
of a cloud of smoke which I was ejaculating. 
B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 215. 
2. To utter as an exclamation, or in an ex- 
clamatory manner ; utter suddenly and briefly : 
as, to ejaculate a cry or a prayer. 
The Dominie groaned deeply, and ejaculated, "Enor- 
mous ! " Scott, Guy Mannering, xxxix. 
II. intrans. To utter ejaculations ; speak in 
an abrupt, exclamatory manner, 
ejaculation (e-jak-u-la'shon), n. [< L. as if 
*ejaculatio(n-), < ejaculari, throw out: see ejac- 
ulate.] 1. The act of throwing or shooting out ; 
a darting or easting forth. [Archaic, except 
in technical use.] 
The Scripture calleth envy an evil eye ; . . . so that still 
there seemeth to be acknowledged, in the act of envy, an 
ejaculationor irradiation of the eye. Bacon, Envy(ed. 1887). 
2. The uttering of exclamations, or of brief 
exclamatory phrases ; that which is so uttered. 
The ejaculations of the heart being the body and soule 
of Diuine worship. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 35. 
Which prayers of our Saviour [Mat. xxvi. 39], and others 
of like brevity, are properly such as we call ejaculations; 
an elegant similitude from a dart or arrow, shot or thrown 
out. South, Works, II. iv. 
When a Moos'lim is unoccupied by business or amuse- 
ment or conversation, he is often heard to utter some pi- 
ous ejaculation. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 369. 
3. Specifically, in physiol., the emission of se- 
men ; a seminal discharge : as, the vessels of 
ejaculation. 
There is hereto no derivation of the seminal parts, nor 
any passage from hence, unto the vessels of ejaculation. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ill. 4. 
ejaculator (e-jak'u-la-tor), n. [< NL. ejaculator, 
< L. ejaculari, throw out: see ejaculate."] One 
who or that which ejaculates Ejaculator urins 
ejaculator aemlnis. the muscle of the penis which expels 
the semen and urine from the urethra. Also called accele- 
rator urines. 
eiaculatory (e-jak'u-la-to-ri), a. and . [= Pg. 
It. ejacttlatorio, < &L'. ejaculatorius, < ejacula- 
tor: see ejaculator.] I. a. 1. Casting forth; 
throwing or shooting out ; also, suddenly shot, 
cast, or darted out. [Archaic, except in tech- 
nical use.] 
Giving notice by a small bell, so as in 120 half minutes, 
or periods of the bullet's falling in the ejaculatorie sprin" 
the clock part struck. Evelyn, Diary, Feb. 24, 1665. 
2. Uttered in ejaculations ; spoken with an in- 
terrupted, exclamatory utterance. 
The Church hath at all times used prayers of all variety 
long and short, ejaculator!/, determined, and solemn. 
, Jer. Taylor, Polem. Discourses, Pref. 
We are not to value ourselves upon the merit of ejacu- 
latory repentances, that take us by fits and starts. 
Sir R. L'Estrange. 
3f. Sudden; hasty. 4. In physiol., pertain- 
ing to ejaculation; providing for the emission 
of semen, etc. : as, ejaculatory seminal vessels. 
-Eiaculatory duct or canal. See duct. 
Il.t . Same as ejaculation, 2. 
Divine ejaculatories, and all those aydes against devils 
ilarston, Dutch Courtezan, iv. 1. 
1858 
eject (e-jekf), r. /. [< L. ejectus, pp. of cicere, 
ejicere, throw out, < e, out, + jacere, throw : 
see jet 1 , and cf. abject, deject, conject, inject, 
etc.] 1. To throw out; cast forth; thrust out; 
discharge ; drive away or expel. 
We are peremptory, to despatch 
This viperous traitor ; to eject him hence 
Were but one danger. Shak., Cor,, iii. 1. 
Every look or glance mine eye ejects 
Shall check occasion. 
B. Jontton, Every Man ill his Humour, ii. 1. 
Specifically 2. To dismiss, as from office, oc- 
cupancy, or ownership ; turn out : as, to eject 
an unfaithful officer ; to eject a tenant. 
The French king was again ejected when our king sub- 
mitted to the Church. Vryden. 
Old incumbents in office were ejected without ceremony, 
to make way for new favorites. 
Prescott, J'erd. and Isa., ii. 19. 
= 8yn. 1. To emit, extrude. 2. To oust, dislodge. 
eject (e-jekf), n. [< L. ejectum, neut. of ejectus, 
pp. ot' eicere, ejicere, eject: see eject, v.] That 
which is ejected; specifically, in philos., a re- 
ality whose existence is inferred, but which is 
outside of, and from its nature inaccessible to, 
the consciousness of the one making the infer- 
ence : thus, the consciousness of one individual 
is an eject to the consciousness of any other. 
But the inferred existence of your feelings, of objective 
groupings among them similar to those among my feelings, 
and of a subjective order in many respects analogous to 
my own these inferred existences are in the very act of 
inference thrown out of my consciousness, recognized as 
outside of it, as not being a part of me. I propose, ac- 
cordingly, to call these inferred existences ejects, tilings 
thrown out of my consciousness, to distinguish them from 
objects, things presented in my consciousness, phenomena. 
W. K. Clifford, Lectures, II. 72. 
ejecta (e-jek'ta), n.pl. [L., pi. of ejectum, neut. 
of ejectus, pp. of eicere, ejicere, eject : see eject, v.] 
Things that are cast out or away ; refuse. 
Dust and other ejecta played but a secondary part in the 
production of the phenomena. 
Ainer. Meteor. Jour., III. 109. 
ejectamenta (e-jek-ta-men'ta), n. pi. [L., pi. 
of ejectameiitum, that" which i's cast out, < ejec- 
tare, cast out : see eject, v.] Things which have 
been cast out; ejecta; refuse. 
Facts . . . indicate that a considerable portion of the 
new mountain may be composed of ejectamenta. 
Science, V. 66. 
ejection (e-jek'shon), . [< L. ejectio(n-), < ejec- 
tus, pp. of eicere, ejicere, eject.] 1. The act of 
ejecting, or the state of being ejected; expul- 
sion; dismissal; dispossession; rejection. 
Then followed those tremendous adventures, those perils 
by sea, by wreck, by false brethren, by envious searchers ; 
those ejections upon islands, those labours by the way, 
which complete in me the portrait of St. Paul. 
Bale, in K. W. Dixon's Hist. Church of Eng., xxi. 
Our first parent comforted himself, after his ejection out 
of Paradise, with the foresight of that blessed seed of the 
woman which should be exhibited almost four thousand 
years after. Bp. Hall, Select Thoughts, SO. 
Some of these alterations are only the ejections of a 
word for one that appeared to him more elegant or more 
intelligible. Johnson, Pref. to Shakespeare. 
2. That which is ejected ; matter thrown out or 
expelled. 
They [laminated beds alternating with and passing into 
obsidian] are only partially exposed, being covered up by 
modern ejections. Darwin, Geol. Observations, i. 62. 
Action of ejection and intrusion, in Scots law, an ac- 
tion brought when lands or houses are violently taken pos- 
session of by another, for the purpose of recovering pos- 
session with damages and violent profits. Letters Of 
election, in Scots law, letters under the royal signet, au- 
thorizing the sheriff to eject a tenant or other possessor 
of land who had been decreed to remove, and who had 
disobeyed a charge to remove, proceeding on letters of 
horning on the decree. 
ejective (e-jek'tiv), a. [< eject + -ive.~\ 1. Per- 
taining to ejection ; casting out ; expelling. 
It was the one thing needful, I take it, to prove that the 
sun is an orb possessing intense eruptive or ejective energy. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XL. 422. 
2. In philos., of the nature of an eject. [Re- 
cent.] 
This conception symbolizes an indefinite number of 
ejects, together with one object which the conception of 
each eject more or less resembles. Its character is there- 
fore mainly ejective in respect of what it symbolizes, but 
mainly objective in respect of its nature. 
W. K. Clifford, Lectures, II. 74. 
ejectively (e-jek'tiv-li), adv. 1. By ejection. 
2. InpMos., as an eject. [Kecent.] 
Mental existence is already known to them ejectively, 
although, as may be conceded, never thought upon sub- 
jectively. JV. A. Rev., CXL. 264. 
ejectment (e-jekt'ment), n. [< eject + -ment.] 
An ejecting or casting out; specifically, a dis- 
possession; the act of dispossessing or ousting. 
Driving him (the devil] out, in the face of the whole 
congregation, by exorcisms and spiritual ejectments. 
Warburton, Doctrine of Grace, ii. 4. 
eke 
Action Of ejectment, in lau; a possessory action, where- 
in the title to real property may be tried and the pos- 
session recovered, wherever the party claiming has a 
right of entry. See casual ejector, under casual. 
ejector (e-jek'tor), n. One who or that which 
ejects. Specifically (a) In law, one who ejects another 
fromor'dispossesseshimof hisland. (6) A device for utiliz- 
ing the momentum of a jet of steam or air under pressure 
to lift a liquid or a finely divided solid, 
such as sand, dust, or ashes. In the sim- 
plest form two pipes are placed one 
within the other, the larger one having 
a conical shape at the place where the 
smaller one enters it. A jet of steam or 
air passing from the smaller pipe upward 
into the larger pipe tends to cause any 
liquid, as oil or water, within reach to 
rise in the larger pipe. In oil-wells such 
a device is used to raise the oil to the 
surface. In another form of ejector, for 
lifting water, the smaller pipe enters a 
bend of the larger pipe near the top, the 
force of the jet tending to lift water 
through the pipe from below. The steam- 
ejector is also used to lift ashes from the 
furnace-room of a steamer and to dis- 
charge them through a pipe passing over- Ejector, 
board above the water-line. The ejector 
is also used to exhaust the air of a vacuum-brake ; in this 
case the steam-jet moves a column of air instead of water, 
(c) A device for throwing cartridge-shells from a firearm 
after firing. The common ejector of single- and double- 
barreled breech-loaders is a bolt underneath the gun-bar- 
rel, with a head fitted to the rim of the bore, working au- 
tomatically back and forth in closing and opening the 
arm ; in the latter movement the head catches against the 
rim of the shell and pushes it out of the barrel. There 
are many other devices, as a spring-lever, etc. Casual 
ejector. See casual. 
ejector-condenser (e-jek'tor-kon-den'ser), n. 
In a steam-engine, a form of condenser operated 
by the exhaust-steam from the cylinder. 
ejido (a-he'do), n. [Sp., = Pg. exido, a common, 
< L. exitus, a going out, exit: see exit.] In 
Spanish and Mexican law, a common ; a public 
inclosed space of land. By the laws of Spain pueblos 
or towns and their inhabitants were entitled to four square 
leagues of land for their general and common use. This 
tract was called the ejido. In the American law reports 
the word is used in the plural, and spelled variously ejidot, 
ehidos, effidos, exidox. 
ejoo (e'jo), n. [Of Malay origin.] The fiber of 
the gomuti. 
ejulationt (ej-o-la'shon), n. [< L. ejulatio(n-), 
< ejulare, also deponent hejulari, wail, lament, 
< hen, hei, ei, an exclamation of grief or fear.] 
An outcry ; a wailing ; a loud cry expressive of 
grief or pain; mourning; lamentation. 
No emulation 
Tolled her knell ; no dying agony 
Frowu'd in her death. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, xviii. 53. 
Instead of hymns and praises, he breaks out into ejula- 
tions and effeminate wailings. Government of the Tongue. 
ejurationt (ej-o-ra'shon), n. [< LL. ejuratio(n-}, 
ejeratio(n-), an abjuring, a resigning, < L. eju- 
rare, ejerare, abjure, renounce, resign, < e, out, 
+ jurare, swear.] Solemn disavowal or renun- 
ciation. Bailey, 1727. 
eka-. [< Skt. eka, one. Cf. dtii-.] In chem., a 
prefix attached to the name of an element and 
forming with it a provisional name for a hypo- 
thetical element which, according to the periodic 
system of Mendelejeff, should have such proper- 
ties as to stand in the same group with the ele- 
ment to which the prefix is made and next to it. 
For example, eka-aluminium was the provisional name 
given by Mendelejeff to a hypothetical element which in 
the periodic system should have such properties as to stand 
in the same group as aluminium and next to it. The 
recently discovered element gallium agrees in properties 
with those ascribed to eka-aluminium, and this name is 
now abandoned. 
eke (ek), v. t.; pret. and pp. eked, ppr. eking. 
[Early mod. E. also eeke, eek; < ME. eken, also 
assibilated echcn (> E. dial, etch), < AS. ecan 
yean, ican (pret. ecte, pp. Seed) (= OS. okian, 
ocon = OHG. ouhlion, ouchon, auhhon = Icel. 
auka (pret. aukadhi) = Sw. oka = Dan. o'ge), 
increase, cause to grow; secondary form, prop, 
caus. of *edcan (pret. "eoc, pp. edcen), only in 
the pp. edcen (= OS. dean, giocan), as adj., in- 
creased, enlarged, made pregnant, = OS. *6can 
= Icel. auka (pret. jok) = Goth, aukan (pret. 
aiauk), intr., grow, increase; = L. augere, in- 
crease; prob. connected with Gr. avfavetv, av- 
friv, increase, which is akin to E. wax, increase. 
Hence eke, adv. and conj.] If. To increase; en- 
large; lengthen; protract; prolong. 
God myghte not a poynte my joies eche. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 1509. 
Spare, gentle sister, with reproch my p-.ine to eeke. 
Spentar, I'. Q., III. vi. 22. 
2. To add to; supply what is lacking to; in- 
crease, exteiid, or make barely sufficient by ad- 
dition: usually followed by out: as, to eke out a 
piece of cloth ; to eke out a performance. 
