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EL'NE, a river of England, in the county of Cumber¬ 
land, which runs into the Irifti Tea: four miles north of 
Workington. 
EL'NIA, a town of Rtiffia, in the government of Smo- 
lenfk : thirty-two miles eaft-fouth-eaftof Smolenfk. Lat. 
54. 25. N. Ion. 51. 5. E. Ferro. 
ELOCU'TION, f. [docuiio, Lat.] The power of fluent 
fpeech. Power of fpeaking ; fpeech : 
Whofe tafte, too long forborne, at firfl effay 
Gave elocution to the mute, and taught 
The tongue not made for fpeech to fpeak thy praife. Milt. 
The power of expreffion or diftion ; eloquence ; beauty 
of words.—The third happinefs of a poet’s imagination 
js elocution, or the art of clothing or adorning that thought 
fo found, and varied, in apt, fignificant, and founding, 
words. Dry den. 
ELO'DES, f. [from <->,0$, Gr. a fnarfh or fwamp.] A 
bog, a place full of fens. Phillips. —The medical term for 
the fweating fever, from its great moifture. 
E'LOGY, or Eulogy, f. [doge, Fr. elogio, Ital. and 
Span, elogium, Lat. of zvXoynov, Gr.] Praife ; panegyric. 
—Some excellent perfons, above my approbation or dogy, 
have confidered this fubjedt. Holder. 
ELO'HI, or Ei.ohim, in feripture, one of the diftin- 
guifhing names of Jehovah. 
ELO'I, [Syr.] My God. 
To ELO'IGNE, or Eloine, v. a. [ eloigner , Fr.] To 
put at a diftance ; to remove one far from another: 
I’ll tell thee now, dear love ! what thou (halt do 
To anger deftiny, as fhe doth us; 
How I fhpl 1 flay though the eloigne me thus, 
And how pofterity (hall know it too. Donne. 
In law, to remove or fend a great way off: in this fenfe 
it is ufed where it is faid that if fuch as are within age be 
eloined, fo that they cannot come to fue perfonally, their 
next friends (hall be admitted to fue for them. 13 Edw. I. 
e, 15. 
To ELO'INE. See To Eloigne, 
ELOIGN'MENT, J'. Remotion. — He difeovers an 
eloignmcnt■ from vulgar phrafes much becoming a perfon 
of quality. Skenjlone. 
ELOI'SA. See Heloise. 
E'LON, a city of Paleftine, fituated in the tribe of Dan. 
JoJh. xix. 43: 
E'LON-BETII-HANAN, a city of Paleftine, probably 
the above city ; one of the ftations of Solomon’s pur¬ 
veyors. 1 Kings, iv. 9. 
ELONGA'TA,yi in law, a return of the flieriff in re¬ 
plevin, that cattle are not to be found, or are removed, fo 
that he cannot make deliverance, &c. 2 Lil. Abr. 454. 
To ELON'GATE, v. a. [from longus, Lat.] To length¬ 
en; to draw out; to protract; to ftretch. To put far¬ 
ther off.—The firft ftar of Aries, in the time of Meton 
the Athenian, was placed in the very interfeftion, which 
is now elongated and moved eaftward twenty-eight degrees. 
Brown. 
To ELON'GATE, v. n. To go off to a diftance from 
any thing.—About Cape Frio in Brafilia, the fouth point 
of the compafs varieth twelve degrees unto the weft; 
but elongating from the coaft of Brafilia, towards the ftiore 
of Africa, it varieth eaftward. Brown. 
ELONG A'TION,y. The a£t of ftretching or length¬ 
ening itfelf.—To this motion of elongation of the fibres, 
is owing the union or conglutination of the parts of the 
body when they are feparated by a wound. Arbuthnot .—. 
The ftate of being ftretched. An imperfedt luxation, 
when the ligament of any joint is fo extended or relaxed 
as to lengthen the limb, but yet not let the bone go quite 
out of its place. Quincy. — Elongations are the effect of an 
humour foaking upon a ligament, thereby making it lia¬ 
ble to be ftretched, and to be thruft quite out upon every 
little force. Wifeman. —Departure; removal.—Nor then 
had it been placed in a middle point, but that of defeent, 
®r elongation. Brown ,—Diftance; fpace at which one thing 
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is diftant from another.—The diftant points in the celef- 
tial expanfe appear to the eye in fo fmall a degree of 
elongation from one another, as bears no proportion to 
what is real. Glanville. —See the article Astronomy, 
vol. ii. 
E'LONITE,y A defeendant of Elon. 
To ELO'PE, v. a. [loopen, Dut. to run. ] To run away; 
to break loofe ; to efcap.e from'law or reftraint.—It is 
neceffary to treat women as members of the body politic, 
fince great numbers of them have doped from their allegi¬ 
ance. AddiJ'on. 
The fool whofe wife elopes fome thrice a quarter, 
For matrimonial folace dies a martyr. Pope. 
ELO'PEMENT, f. Departure from juft reftraint; re- 
jedlion of lawful power: commonly ufed of a wife,—An 
elopement is the voluntary departure of a wife from her 
hufband to live with an adulterer, and with whom ftie 
lives in breach of the matrimonial vow. Ayliffe. 
E'LOPS, f. [e)\;\oi]/, Gr. a fifh, or other dumb animal, 
which Milton feems to have miftaken for a ferpent.] In 
ichthyology, a genus belonging to the order of abdomi- 
nales. The generic character arifes from the great num¬ 
ber of rays in the membrane of the gills, being moflly 
thirty and upwards, and armed on the outfide and in the 
middle with five teeth. Linnaeus has but one fpecies, 
which was firft difeovered by Sloane, and formed into a 
genus by Linnaeus ; it has feven fins, and tire head is 
fmooth ; teeth in the edges of the jaws and palate. 
1. Flops faurus, the faur-fifh. Specific charadter, tail 
armed above and beneath ; a long plate at the chin. 
This plate is formed of a thin oval bone, fixed in front 
to the lower jaw, and behind to the membrane of the 
gills, where the lower jaw joins that membrane. It 
feems deftined to fupport the membrane of the gills, 
which is furnifhed only with very weak rays, though to 
the number of thirty-four; the pedtoral fin has 18 rays, 
the ventrals 15, the anal -Jj, the tail 30, the dorfal ; (the 
upper figures denoting the fpinous rays,the lower the w hole 
number.) The head is compreffed, without feales, long, 
and fomewhat flatted at top; the lower jaw is longer than 
the upper, and both, as well as the palate and tongue, are 
furnifhed with a great number of fmall teeth ; the bones 
of the lips are long, and fomewhat ferrated. The noftrils 
are double. The eyes are almoft vertical, with double 
irides, yellow and red. The gills have a wide aperture, 
and the membrane is loofe. The lateral line runs (trait 
to the middle of the tail, which is bifurcated. The 
feales are thin and fmooth. The rays of the fins are foft, 
tender, and fplit at the extremities. The back is bluifli, 
the fides and belly filvery, the fins red and grey. There 
is an appendage above the ventral fin, and (what has been 
• obferved in no other fifh) alfo above the pectoral. There 
is a round fpot and a long one on the fin of the tail. The 
ventral fin is oppofite the dorfal, Linnaeus deferibes his 
faurus with a double branchial membrane, and a fpine at 
the origin of the tail-fin both above and below ; thefe 
peculiarities Bloch did .not obferve in the fpecimen he 
examined, which leads him to doubt whether his might 
be a different fpecies, or at leaft whether Linnaeus’s might 
not be the male. It is found in Carolina and the Weft- 
Indian feas, 
2. Elops megalops, the great-eyed faur-fifh. This is 
a new fpecies deferibed by Cepede from Commerfon’s 
MSS. The eyes are very large; and it has twenty-four 
rays only in the membrane ; not having thirty, to anfwer 
exadtly the generic character, therefore Cepede has made 
it a diftindt genus, by the name of Megalops, or large- 
eye. The laft ray of the dorfal fin terminates in a very 
long thin filament. Commerfon difeovered it near fort 
Dauphin, in the ifland of Madagafcar. 
EL'OQUENCE, f. [ eloquentia, Lat.] The power of 
fpeaking with fluency and elegance. See Oratory. 
Adlion is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant 
More learned than the ears, ' " Shakefpcare. 
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