eke 
More bent to rite my smarten 
Then to reward my trusty true intent, 
She Kim for mt> devise 11 uni-vims punishment. 
,S> 'I1X.T, K. O., III. Vil. ftfi. 
In order to rfcc OH/ the (in-sent ]>;i^e, I eould not avoid 
pur^iiiiiK the metaphor. Gulitxiititlt, The llee, No. 5. 
It wan thflr custom, from father to on, to rice out the 
frugal Kiipport derived from thin little domain by the busi- 
ness of a smith, to which the oldest won was habitually 
brought up. Kivrrtt, Orations, II. 5. 
eke (ek), n. [< ME. eke, also assibilated echt, < 
AS. edca, an increase, < 'nicitu, increase: see 
eke, v.] Something added to something else. 
Specifically (a) A short wooden cylinder on which a liee- 
hive is placed to increase its capacity when the bees hare 
tilled it with comb. [Scotch.] 
.Neighbour defines rkt as half a hive placed helow the 
main hive, while a whole hive used In the same way Is 
called a " nadir." Phin, Diet. Apiculture, p. 31. 
(6) Same as eking, 2. 
eke (ek), adv. and conj. [< ME. eke, eek, ek, ec, 
< AS. eric = OS. ok = OFries. dk = D. ook = 
LG. dk, ok, auk = OHG. ouh, ouch, MHG. ouch, 
Q. auch = Icel. auk = Sw. och = Dan. og, and, 
also, = Goth, auk, for, also ; prob. the adverbial 
ace. of a noun (of. Icel. at auk, besides, to boot, 
AS. to edcan, besides, moreover), < AS. 'edcan, 
etc. ( increase: see eke, v.] Also; likewise; in 
addition. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
The emperour & eek slbile spoken prophesle, 
And the! aeordiden bothe in feere. 
Uymm to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. 8.), p. 45. 
Up Una rose, up rose the lyon eke. 
Speiuer, f. Q., I. Hi. 21. 
A train-band captain eke was he 
Of famous London town. Cowper, John Gilpiu. 
ekebergite (ek'e-berg-It), n. [After the Swed- 
ish mineralogist Ekeberg.'] A variety of scapo- 
lite. 
ekenamet (ek'nam), n. [ME. ekename, ekname 
(= Icel. aukitafn = Sw. <ikmimn = Dan. oge- 
navn), an added name, < eke, an addition, in- 
crease, eken, add, + name, name : see eke and 
name. Hence, by misdividing an ekename as a 
nekename, the form nickname, q. v.] An added 
name ; an epithet ; a nickname. See nickname. 
We have thousands of instances ... of such eke-natnet 
or epithet-names being adopted by the person concerned. 
Archceotogia, Mill. 110 (1871). 
ekia (e'ki-ft), n. The wild African dog. 
eking (e'king), n. [Also ekeing; early mod. E. 
also f eking; < ME. "eking, echinge; verbal n. of 
eke, D.] 1. The act of adding. 
I dempt there much to have eeked my store, 
But such eeking hath made my hart sore. 
Spenter, Shep. Cal., September. 
2. That which is added. Specifically (a) A pieceof 
wood fitted to make good a deficiency In length, as the 
end of a knee of a ship and the like. 
Weeing Is the name given to the timber which, resting 
upon the shelf, ekes out or fills up the spaces between the 
apron and the foremost beam, and between the stern post 
and aftermost beam the deck hook and deck transom 
. . . connecting the two sides. 
Thearle, Naval Arch., 210. 
(6) The carved work under the lower part of the quarter- 
piece of a ship at the aft part of the quarter-gallery. Also 
. tf. 
eklogite, n. See eclogite. 
e^t, " An obsolete spelling of M1. 
el' 2 , n. See ell*. 
el-. [L. el-, < Gr. t ).-, assimilation of f v- before 
A.] An assimilated form of ew- 2 before /, as 
in el-lipse. 
-el 1 . [ME. -el, < AS. -el, a noun-suffix, prob. 
orig. same as -ere, E. -er. Cf. -al, -or, and see 
-fe 1 . See-er 1 .] A suffix of Anglo-Saxon origin, 
forming nouns, originally denoting the agent, 
from verbs, as in runnel: in modern English, 
except after , usually written -le, as in bead-lc, 
bect-tel, beet-let, e t c . See -fel. 
-el a . [(1) OP. -el, mod. -el, -eau, m., -elle, f., < L. 
-ctltt#, -ella, -elluin, parallel to -illus, etc., being 
usually dim. -lu-s, with assimilation of a preced- 
ing consonant. The suffix -I (-Io-, -lu-s, -el, etc. ) 
is a common Indo-European formative, with 
different uses, diminutive, agential, or adjective. 
It appears also in -l-et, q. v. (2) See -al, etc.} 
1. A suffix originally and still more or less di- 
minutive in force, sometimes of Teutonic ori- 
gin, as in hatch-el (= hack-le, hcck-le), but usually 
of Latin origin, as in cha/i-il, </>-</, hom-M, 
etc. 2. A suffix of various origin, chiefly Latin, 
as in chatt-rl, rluinn-i'l, kcnn-i-P, etc. (where it 
represents Latin -a to, E. -al), fcnn-cl, funn-el, 
etc. See these words. 
E lat (e lit). In Hifdirrul music, the second E 
above middle C : so named by Guido, in whose 
system it was the highest tone: hence often 
used by the old dramatists to denote the ex- 
L8M 
treme of any quality, but especially any extrav- 
agant or hyperbolical saying. 
N'-eeuitle . . . made him . . . stretch his braines as 
high u K la to see how he could reconer pence to defray 
his charges, Greene, Never Too Late. 
There are some expressions in It [ Dryden's " State of In. 
nocence"] that seem strain'd and a note beyond K la. 
Lang/mine, Dram. Poets (ed. 1091), p. 72. 
elaborate, a.: 
elaboracy (e-lab'o-ra-si), n. [< 
see -acy.] Elaboration. [Kare.] 
A minute elaborate of detail. 
I'. Knbinmn, Harper's Weekly, June 7, 1884, p. 367. 
elaborate (e-lab'o-rat), r. ; pret. and pp. elabo- 
rated, ppr. elaborating. [< L. elaborate, pp. of 
elaborare ( > It. elaborare = Sp. Pg. elaborar = F. 
^laborer), labor greatly, work out, elaborate, < 
e, out, + laborare, labor: see labor, r.] I. trans. 
1. To produce with labor; work out; produce 
in general. 
The honey, that is elaborated by the bee, . . . affords a 
great deal of pleasure to the bee herself. 
Boyle, Works, II. 355. 
Or, In full joy, elaborate a sigh. Young, Love of Fame. 
If the Orchldeee had elaborated as much pollen as Is pro. 
duced by other plants, relatively to the number of seeds 
which they yield, they would have had to produce a most 
extravagant amount, and this would have caused exhaus- 
tion. Darn-in, Fertil. of orchids by Insects, p. 288. 
Specifically 2. To improve or refine by suc- 
cessive operations ; work out with great care ; 
work up fully or perfectly. 
There has been up to the present day an endeavour to 
explain every existing form of life on the hypothesis that 
it has been maintained for long ages in a state of balance ; 
or else on the hypothesis that it has been elaborated, and 
is an advance, an improvement, upon Its ancestors. 
E. R. Lanketter, Degeneration, p. 29. 
Often ... a speaker's thought Is not weighty enough 
to sustain elaborated style of any kind, and, least of all, 
elaborated imagery. A. I'helpt, English Style, p. 285. 
II. intrans. To be or become elaborate ; be 
elaborated. [Rare.] 
This custom [of burying a dead man's movables with 
him] elaborates as social development goes through its 
earlier stages. //. Spencer, Prln. of Sociol., 103. 
elaborate (e-lab'o-rat), a. [= F. ildbori = Sp. 
Pg. elaborado = It. elaborate, < L. elaboratus, 
pp. : see the verb.] Wrought with labor ; fin- 
ished with great care and nicety of detail ; much 
studied ; executed with exactness ; highly fin- 
ished: as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate 
performance. 
The Expressions are more florid and elaborate In these 
Descriptions than in most other Parts of the Poem. 
Addition, Spectator, No. 321. 
His style would never have been elegant; but It might 
at least have been manly and perspicuous ; and nothing 
but the most elaborate care could possibly have made It 
so bad as it is. Macaulay, Mitford's Ilist. Greece. 
What an elaborate theory have we here, 
Ingeniously nursed up, pretentiously 
Brought forth ! Broirning, Ring and Book, 1. 177. 
= Syn. Labored, perfected, highly wrought, 
elaborately (e-lab'o-rat-li), adv. In an elab- 
orate manner ; with elaboration ; with nice re- 
gard to exactness. 
I beleeve that God Is no more niov'd with a prayer elab- 
orately pend, then men tritely charitable are mov'd with 
the pen'd speech of a Begger. Milton, Eikonoklastes, xxlv. 
elaborateness (e-lab'o-rat-nes), n. The qual- 
ity of being elaborate, or wrought with great 
labor. 
Yet it [the " Old Batuhelor "] is apparently composed 
with great etaboratrnets of dialogue, and incessant ambi- 
tion of wit. Johnnon, Congreve. 
elaboration (e-lab-o-ra'shpn), n. [= F. elabo- 
ration = Sp. elaboration = Pg. elaboracSo = It. 
claborazione, < L. elaboratio(n-), < elaborare: 
see elaborate.'] 1. The act of elaborating, or 
working out or producing; production or for- 
mation by a gradual process : as, the elabora- 
tion of sap by a tree. 
Elaboration is a gradual change of structure, in which 
the organism becomes adapted to more and more varied 
and complex conditions of existence. 
E. Jt. Lankester, Degeneration, p. 32. 
2. The act of working out and finishing with 
great care and exactness in detail ; the act of 
improving or refining by successive processes; 
painstaking labor. 
It is not my design in these papers to treat of my sub- 
ject ... to the full elaboration. Boyle, Works, IV. 596. 
3. Labored finish or completeness; detailed 
execution ; careful work in all parts : as, the 
elaboration of the picture is wonderful. 
elaborative (e-lab'o-rft-tiv), a. Serving, tend- 
ing, or having power to elaborate ; working out 
with minute attention to completeness and to 
details ; laboriously bringing to a state of com- 
Elachlatus 
pletion or perfection. Elaborative faculty, in 
ptychol., the intellectual power of di. ruiiiK relation! 
and of viewing objects by means of or In relations ; the 
understanding, as defined by the German philosophers ; 
the discursive faculty ; thought : a phrase Introduced by 
Sir William Hamilton. 
elaborator (e-lab'o-ra-tor), w. [= F. elabora- 
teur, < L. as if 'elaborator, < daliorare, elabo- 
rate : see elaborate, r.] One who or that which 
elaborates. 
elaborately (e-lab'o-ra-to-ri), a. and n. [< elab- 
orate + -ory. Asanoun.afterfa&oratory.J I. a. 
Elaborating; tending to elaborate. [Bare.] 
Il.t A laboratory. 
He shew'd us divers rare plants, caves, and an elabora- 
''"/ Eoelyn, Diary, Aug. 1, 1666. 
In this retreat of mine, shall I have the use of mine 
(laboratory! Scott, Kenllworth, xriil. 
elabrate (e-la'brat). a. [< NL. "elabratus, < L. 
e- priv. T labrum, lip: see labrum.] Having 
no labrum : an epithet applied in entomology 
to the mouth when it has no distinct labrum or 
upper lip, as in the spiders and most Diptera. 
Elacate (e-lak'a-te). n. [NL., < Gr. tfjudni, dial. 
it'/itm'irn, arMK&ra, a distaff.] The typical genus 
of fishes of the family Elacatida;. E. amada Is a 
food-fish of the Atlantic coast of North America and the 
West Indies, reaching a length of 5 feet and a weight of 
from IS to 20 pounds. It Is variously known as the irr- 
geant-Juh, coaljigh, bonito, cubby-yew or cobia, and crab- 
eater. See cut under cobia. 
elacatid (e-lak'a-tid), n. A fish of the family 
Klacatidce. 
Elacatidae (el-a-kat'i-de), n. pi [NL., < Ela- 
cate + -idai.] A family of scombnform fishes, 
of fusiform shape, with depressed head, smooth 
scales, lateral line concurrent with the back, 
eight free spines representing the first dorsal 
fin. a long second dorsal and anal fin, and acute- 
ly lobed tail. The cranium Is also characteristic. The 
type is the cobia or sergeant-fish, Elacate Canada. See 
cut under cobia. 
elacatoid (e-lak'a-toid), a. and n. I. a. Of or 
pertaining to the Elacatultc. 
H. n. An elacatid. 
elachert (era-chert), n. Same as degote. 
Elachlstea (el-a-kis'te-ft), n. [NL., < Gr. eM- 
X'oroc, super!, of f Aayvc, small.] A small genus 
of olive-brown filamentous marine algte, be- 
longing to the Phceosporetf, which grow in small 
tufts attached to other algae, especially Fvcaceae. 
The basal part of the tuft is composed of densely packed 
branching filaments, which at the surface branch corym- 
bosely, so as to form a layer of short filaments(paraphyses). 
At the base of the latter are borne the sporangia and a 
series of long, unbranched filaments. Elachittea fucicola 
Is the commonest species in Great Britain and America. 
Elachistinae (el'a-kis-ti'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Ela- 
chistus + -MKF.] 'A subfamily of insects, of the 
parasitic hymenopterous family Chalcididte. 
They have four-jointed tarsi, slender hind thighs, distinct 
parapsidcs, and a submarginat vein reaching the costa 
without a break. The species are all parasitic, and some 
of the larva? spin Irregular cocoons, differing in this re- 
ict from most other Chalcididtr. 
(el-a-kis'to-don). n. [NL., < Gr. 
, superl. of f ?.<z^i'f, small, + oioi-f (OOOVT-), 
tooth.] A genus of Indian colubriform serpents 
of the subfamily Dasypeltince, having esopha- 
geal teeth formed bv enameled processes of cer- 
vical vertebrae projecting into the gullet (as in 
the genus Dasypeltis), but smooth scales, head 
little distinct from the body, a grooved maxil- 
lary tooth, and a loreal plate. E. nestermanni 
is an example. Reinhardt, 1863. 
Elachistus (el-a-kis'tus), . ||NL. (Spinola. 
1811), < Gr. eM-furrof, snperl. of tfaxift small.] 
The typical genus of Elachistina (which see), 
/lacttisttts cactrcue. (Cross shows natural size. 
characterized by the one-spurred hind tibie 
and metallic colors. In Europe 50 species have been 
described, and in North America 6 : the latter are para- 
sitic upon tortricid larva-. Sometimes wrongly spelled 
Elachettw. 
