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ELLIPTO'IDE, f. An infinite or indefinite ellipfis, 
defined by the indefinite equation ay m * n — bx m . a — x" 
when in or n are greater than i : for when they are each 
— i, it denotes the common ellipfe. There are feveral 
kinds or degrfees of elliptoides, denominated from the ex¬ 
ponent m + n of the ordinate y. As the cubical elliptoide, 
exprefTed by ay z — bx 2 .a — x ; the biquadratic, or fur- 
folid ay 4 — bx 2 . a — x 2 ; &C. 
EL'LIS, [according te Camden from Ellas.'] Formerly 
a Chriftian name, now a furname. 
ELLI'SlA,yi [fo named in memory of John Ellis, F.R.S. 
author of a treatile on Corallines, &c.] In botany, a ge¬ 
nus of tlie clafs pentandria, order monogynia, natural 
order of luridae, (borragineae, Jiff.) The generic cha- 
rafters are—Calyx:- perianthium one-leafed, five-parted; 
divifions (harp, gaping. Corolla: one-petalled, funnel- 
form, fmaller than the calyx ; border five-cleft. Sta¬ 
mina: filaments five, fhorter than the tube; antherae 
roundifii. Pifiillum: germ roundilh ; ftyle filiform, fliort; 
fiigma two-cleft, oblong. Pericarpium: capfule bag- 
form, leathery, two-valved, two-celled, the calyx then 
very large, flat, flar-form. Seeds: in each cell two, 
globofe, black, hollow-dotted; but one feed over the 
other, fcarcely feparated by a tranfverfe partition.— EJfen - 
tial CharaEler. Corolla funnel-form, narrow; berry dry, 
two-celled, two-valved ; feeds two, dotted, one placed 
over the other. 
Ellifia nyhtelea, or cut-leaved ellifia: a fingle fpecies. 
It is allied to hydrophyllum. Root annual; Item herba¬ 
ceous, brittle., dichotomous, very much branched, dif- 
fufed, proftrate, round; leaves refembling thofe of hy¬ 
drophyllum, alternate, petioled, pinnatifid, during folia¬ 
tion imbricate backward, the divifions (harp, with a tooth 
on each fide; flowers drooping; corolla white, with mi¬ 
nute purple dot's on the infide of the divifions. The peti¬ 
tion of the feeds is Angular. Native of Virginia; flowers 
in July and Auguft. See Duranta. 
EL'LOBUS, adj. [from ev, in, and Ao£o?, a lobe.] In 
botany, an epithet of fuch feeds as are contained in pods 
or lobes. 
ELLO'RE, one of the northern circars of Hindooftan, 
fituated to the north-eaft of Condapilly, and north-weft 
of the Bay of Bengal. 
ELLO'RE, a town of Hindooftan, and capital of a cir- 
car of the fame name, thirty-two miles north of Mafuli- 
patam. Lat 7 i 6 . 43.N. Ion. 81.11.E. Greenwich. 
EL'LYS (Anthony), a learned prelate of the church 
of England in the eighteenth century, born in 1693, but 
at what place is uncertain. He was entered at Clare-hall, 
Cambridge, where he took his degree of bachelor of arts 
in 1712, and that of mafter of arts in 1716. In 1724 he was 
prefented to the vicarage of St. Olave, Jewry, in the city 
of London, and to the reftory of St. Martin, Ironmonger- 
lane ; and in the following year was promoted to a prebend 
flail in the cathedral church of Gloucefter; he was after¬ 
wards vicar of Great Marlow, in Buckinghamftiire. In 
1728, when George II. paid a vifit to the univerfity of 
Cambridge, Mr. Ellys was one of the perfons who were 
created doftors of divinity on that occafion. In 1736, 
he publifhed A Plea for the Sacramental Teft, as a juft 
Security to the Church eftablilhed, &c. 4to. which was 
afterwards reprinted among his pofthumous pieces. His 
next publication was intitled, Remarks on an Elfay con¬ 
cerning Miracles, publifhed by David Hume, Efq. 4to. 
1752 ; which is a fenfible and candid work. In the fame 
year Dr. Ellys was promoted to the fee of St. David’s; 
which advancement he owed to the reputation of having 
been employed for many years in preparing for the prels 
a grand work, the defign of which fhould be to illuftrate, 
confirm, and vindicate, the principles of religious liberty, 
and the reformation from popery as founded upon thofe 
principles. Why this work did not make its appearance 
during the bifhop’s life-time, has not been fatisfaftorily 
explained. After his promotion to St. David’s, Dr. Ellys 
continued to hold his prebend of Gloucefter, and his city 
preferment in commendam. He died at Gloucefter, in 1761, 
aged fixty-eight years. After his death, in 1763, was 
publifhed the firft part of the great work which had been 
the principal objeft of the bifhop’s life, intitled, Tracts 
on the Liberty, fpiritual and temporal, of Proteftants in 
England, &c. 4to. The fecond part appeared in 1765, 
intitled, Tracts on the Liberty, fpiritual and temporal, 
of Subjects in England, 4to. 
ELM, f [Saxon.] In botany. See the article Ulmus. 
The rural feat, 
Whofe lofty elms and venerable oaks, 
Invite the rook, who high amid’ the boughs 
In early fpring his airy city builds. Thomfon. 
It was ufed to fupport vines, to which the poets allude: 
Thou art an elm, my hufband ; I a vine, 
Whofe weaknefs married to thy ftronger ftate, 
Makes me with thy ltrength to communicate. Shakefpearc. 
ELM, a town of Swiflerland, in the canton of Glaris: 
fix miles fouth of Glaris. 
EL'MA, a river of Ruftia, which runs into the Pet- 
chora, at Elma. 
EL'MA, a town of Ruftia, in the government of Arch¬ 
angel, at the conflux of the Elma and the Petchora : 312 
miles eaft of Archangel. 
ELMAHAD', a town of Arabia, in the country of Ye¬ 
men : eight miles north-north-weft of Zcbid. 
EL'MACIN (George), an Egyptian of Syrian defeent, 
fon of a fecretary to the council of war under the fultans 
of Egypt, fucceeded his father in the fame office, A. D. 
1238. He is known as the author of a chronicle of the 
Mahometan caliphs, written in Arabic, which commences 
with Mahomet, and goes down to the reign of Moftader- 
Billah, who died in the year of the hejira 312, A. D. 
1118. From the manner in which this hiftorian mentions 
the Chriftians, it is concluded that he was of their re¬ 
ligion. His work was printed in Arabic, with a Latin 
verfion by Arpenius, at Leyden, in 1625, under the title 
of Hijloria Saracenica. See the Article Egypt, p. 368^ 
of this volume. 
ELMEDE'A, or Elmadia, or El Medea, called like- 
wife Africa, a fea-port town of Africa, in the country 
of Tunis; formerly a place of great ftrength and import¬ 
ance ; hut the harbour is now ruined and choked up : fix 
leagues north of Cape Oudia. 
EL'MEDINE, or Almedine, a town of Africa, in the 
empire of Morocco, on the edge of Mount Atlas. 
EL'MEDINE, a town of Africa, in the empire of Mo¬ 
rocco, near the fea-coaft. 
EL'MEN, or Alt Salza, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Lower Saxony, and the principality of Magde¬ 
burg : ten miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Magdeburg. 
EL'MENAU. See Ilmenau. 
EL'MESHORN, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Holftein : eighteen miles north-weft of Hamburg. 
ELMO'DAM, [Heb. the God of meafure.] A man’s 
name. 
EL'MORE, a townfhip of the American States in Or¬ 
leans county, Vermont. 
ELN, y. A meafure of three feet and one inch. Phillips. 
ELNA'THAN, [Heb. the gift of God.] A man’s name. 
ELNBO'GEN, a town of Bohemia, and capital of a 
circle, or diftrift, within the circle of Saalz, called the 
Circle of Elbogen, or Lokct ; fituated on a rock, furrounded 
with mountains, near the Egra: fixty-two miles weft of 
Prague, and thirty-two fouth-weft of Saatz. 
EL'NE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Eaftern Pyrennees, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Perpignan; formerly the fee of a bjlhop, fuffra- 
gan of Narbonne. It fuffered very much in the civil 
wars, during the reign of Louis XI. in the feventeenth 
century : two leagues and a half fouth-fouth-eaft of Per¬ 
pignan, 
EL'NE. 
