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' ELAT'MA, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Tambov, on the Oka: 132 miles north of Tambov. 
Lqt. 55. 2. N. Ion. 59. 28. E. Ferro. 
Fo ELAX'ATE, w.a. \_elaxare, Lat.J. To unloofe or 
make wider. 
ELAY', a river of -Wales, in the county of Glamor¬ 
gan, which runs into the fea, near Pennarth Point. 
EL'BA (i(le of), in Latin Ilva, anciently Oethalia, in 
the Tufcan fea, and middle divifion of Italy, oppoiite to 
Piombino, being feparated from the main land by a chan¬ 
nel of the latter name, about 10 miles broad. The illand 
is forty miles in circuit, reckoning its gulfs, capes, &c. 
and has two ports; the one to the north weft, called 
Porto Ferraio, belonged to the grand-duke of Tufcany 
before the late revolutionary war; the other is to the 
fouth-eaft, called Porto Longone, was fubjeCt to Spain, 
and indeed the whole illand was generally confidered as 
under the protection of that crown, and mofily belonged 
to the duke of. Piombino. By the treaty of Luneville, 
Dec. 1800, it was exprefsly llipulated that Elba fliould 
be attached to the duchy of Tufcany; but in Auguft 
1801, the dominions of the grand duke were given in fo- 
vereignty to the infant of Spain, by the title of Louis I. 
king of Etruria ; by which means the French obtained 
this ifland for themfelves at the peace of March 1802, in 
direft contradiction to the treaty of Luneville. The 
place is mountainous, and has mines of iron, marble, ful- 
phur, and fame lead-done. It lies fourteen miles fouth- 
wed of Piombino. I,at. 42. 26. N. Ion. 11. 18, E. 
EI.BE, a river of Germany, which riles in the fouth- 
ead part of the principality of Jauer, in Silefia, takes a 
foutherly courfe through part of Bohemia, palling by 
Arnau, Kotiinghod', Konigingratz, &c. to Pardubitz, 
where, turning towards the wed and north-wed, it pafl’es 
by Nimburg, Kodeletz, Melnik, Raudnitz, Leitmeritz, 
Tetfchen, &c. after which it enters Saxony, palfes by 
Konigdein, Pirnau, Drefden, Meilfen, Belgern, Torgaw, 
Wittenburg, Cofwick, Delfau, Barley, Magdeburg, Tan- 
gernutnde, Sandau, Domitfch, Boitzenburg, Lauenburg, 
Hamburg, Gluckdadt, &c. and runs into the German 
Sea, about lat. 54. 3. N. Ion. 25. 50. E. Ferro. Prullia 
having allowed the French troops under Bonaparte, to 
blockade its banks, with a view to injure our commerce 
in that quarter, the king of England took the fpirited re- 
folution of completely blockading the entrance of it, 
which was notided to the neutral powers in June 1803. 
ELBE, a river of Germany, in the circle of the Upper 
Rhine, which runs into the Eder, two miles fouth-fouth- 
ead of Fritzlar, in the county of Waldeck. 
ELBEDOU'I, a town of Arabia, in the country of 
Yemen : fourteen miles fouth of Abu Arifch. 
EL'BERT, a county of the American States, in the up¬ 
per didriCf of Georgia, on the tract of land betweenTugulo 
and Broad rivers. The fouth-ead corner of the county 
is at their confluence, at the town of Peterlburg. On the 
north-wed it is bounded by Franklin county. Elberton, 
the feat of judice in this county, is twenty-three miles 
north-wed of Peterlburg, and thirty fouth-ead of Frank¬ 
lin court-houfe. 
EL'BERTON, a pod-town of the American States, in 
Effingham county, Georgia, on the north-ead bank of 
Ogeechee river, nineteen miles w'efl of Ebenezer, forty- 
eight north-wed of Savannah, and fifty.flve fouth-ead of 
Louifville. Lat. 32.18. 45. N. Ion. 80. 30. W. 
ELBEUF', a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton, in the didrict 
of Rouen; with a manufacture of cloth, on the Seine: 
ten miles fouth of Rouen. 
EL'BING, or Elblang, a fea-port town of Pruflia, 
fituated on a river of the fame name, near the Frifche 
Hade, built in 1239 ; fieven years after its foundation it 
enjoyed the privilege of coining money. It is a place of 
conliderable trade, and was till very lately Hanfeatic. 
The Roman Catholics make ufe of the larged church, 
the Lutherans have eight others, the Calvinifis have 
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places of worfhip, ttnd other feCts arc tolerated : thirty 
miles fouth-ead of Dantzick. 
ELBO'IC, /'. A rude kind of compofition in profe or 
verfe; a rough line orverfe. 
EL'BOW, f. [elboga, Sax.] The next joint or cur¬ 
vature of the arm below the fhoiilder: 
In forne fair evening, on your dhow laid, 
You dream of tiiurnphs in the rural fltade. Pope. 
Any flexure or angle.—Fruit trees, or vines, fet upon a 
wall between elbows or buttrefles of done, ripen more 
than upon a plain wall. Bacon. 
To be at the Elbow. To be near ; to be at hand : 
Strait will he come ; 
Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home : 
Qujck, quick ; fear nothing, I’ll be at thy elbow. Shakefp. 
To EL'BOW, v. a. To pufli with the elbow,—One el¬ 
bows him, one joflles in the fliole. Dryden. —To pufli ; to 
drive to a didance ; to encroach upon : 
It thruds and dretches out, 
And elbows all the kingdoms round about. Dryden. 
To EL'BOW, v. n. To jut out in angles. 
ELBOWCHA'IR, f. A chair with arms to fupport 
the elbows.—Swans and elbowchairs, in the opera ot Dio- 
clefian, have danced upon the Englidi dage with good 
fuccefs. Gay. 
EL'BOWING, part. aSl. Pufliing with the elbows; 
encroaching upon ; bending out like an elbow. 
EL'BOWROOM, J\ Room to dretch out the elbows 
on each fide ; perfect freedom from confinement.—A po¬ 
litician mud put himfelf into a date of liberty to provide 
elbowroom for confidence to have its full play in. South. 
Now my foul hath elbowroom-, 
It would not out at windows nor at doors. Shakefpeare. 
ELBU'GA, a river of Ruflia, in the government of 
Caucafus, which runs into the Kagalinflc, twelve miles 
eafl of Azoph. 
EL'BURG, or Elburch, a town of the United Dutch 
States, in Guelderland, fituated on the eadern fhore of 
the Zuyder Sea : thirty-four miles north-north-ead of 
Utrecht. Lat. 52. 28. N. Ion. 23. 13. E. Ferro. 
ELCE'SAITES, in church hidory, ancient heretics, 
who appeared in the reign of the emperor Trajan, and 
took their name from their leader Elcefai. They held a 
mean between the Jews, Chridians, and Pagans; they 
worfhipped one God, obferved the Jewiih fubbath, cir- 
cumcilion, and other ceremonies of the law. They re¬ 
jected the Pentateuch, and the prophets ; nor had they 
much refpect for the writings of the apodles, particu¬ 
larly thofe of St. Paul. 
EL'CHE, a town of Spain, in the province of Valen¬ 
cia, fituated in a fored of palms and olive-trees; the en¬ 
virons produce a great quantity of wine, and feed a num¬ 
ber of cattle ; the water is fait, and not good ; that which 
the inhabitants drink is brought from a didance. Seve¬ 
ral magnificent remains of its ancient fplendour make it 
fuppoied to be the ancient Ilia: eight miles fouth-welt 
of Alicant. 
EL'CHE, a town of Spain, in New Cadile: twe-nty- 
feven miles fouth-ead of Alcaraz. 
ELCHIN'GEN, an abb.y of Germany, in the circle of 
Swabia, the abbot of which is a prince, and pays fifty 
florins for a Roman month, and is taxed 162 rix-dollars 
and twenty-nine kruitzers to the imperial chamber : its 
territory includes about fifteen villages near Ulm. 
ELCO'SIS, j: [eAxoc, Gr. an ulcer.] A difeafe at¬ 
tended with foetid carious ulcers. 
ELD, /, [ealb, Sax. .eld, Scottifli.] Old age; decre¬ 
pitude : 
Thy blazed youth 
Becomes afiuaged, and doth beg the alms 
Of pallied eld,. Shakefpeare. 
