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and is ufed as a barn. The roof is fomewhat like that of 
Wedminfter-lvall. The large moat round the palace, al¬ 
though the greateft part of it is dry, and covered with ver¬ 
dure, has dill two done bridges over it, one of which con- 
fids of four arches. The farm-houfe in the inclofure, 
though fomewhat modernized, was part of this ancient 
palace. In the garden of Mr. Dorrington is the conferva- 
tory, in which were formerly kept the exotics of that emi¬ 
nent botanid, Dr. Sherrard. The Hortus Eltkamiefrfis is 
well known to the curious in botany. On Shooter’s-hill, 
in this pari(h, the eye is charmed with the iovelied of pro- 
fpefts. Here are two charity-fchooJs well endowed. It 
lias a market on Mondays ; and five fairs, viz. Palm-Mon¬ 
day, Eader-Monday, Whit-Monday, and October to. 
Near Eltham is Chid’elhurd, noted for the retirement of 
the famous Camden, who here compofed thegreated part 
of his Annals of Queen Elizabeth. Here the prefent lord 
Camden has a noble feat, in whofe park may be feen that 
celebrated piece of ancient architecture, called the Lan¬ 
tern of Demodhenes. 
ELT'MAN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Franconia, and bifhopric of Wurzburg : eight miles 
wed-north-wed of Bamberg, and forty ead-north-ead of 
Wurzburg. 
EL'TOLAD, or Tolad, a city of Paledine, in the 
tribe of Judah, fituated in the fouthern parts of that pro¬ 
vince, near the borders of Edom ; it was afterwards af- 
figned to the tribe of Simeon, as their inheritance was 
included within that of Judah. JoJli. xv. 3°. xix. 4. and 
1 Chron. iv. 29. 
EL'VAS, a city of Portugal, in the province of Tra- 
los-Montes, the fee of a bidiop fiiffragan of Evora, faid 
to have been founded by the Gauls, in the year of the 
world 3009. It contains, befides the cathedral, three 
parifh churches, two hofpitals, and feven convents. The 
Spaniards befieged it in 1659; and the French and Spa¬ 
niards in 1706, without fuccefs. The town and envi¬ 
rons contain 12,000 fouls; near it is a fortrefs, called 
the Lippe, built in 1764, under the direction of count 
Erned de Schomberg Lippe. An academy was founded 
here in 1733 : 104 miles ead of Lifbon. Lat. 38. 44. N. 
Ion. 11. 43. E. Ferro. 
To ELU'CIDATE, v.a. \_ducido, Lat.] To explain; 
to clear ; to make plain.—To elucidate a little the matter, 
let 11s confider it. Boyle. 
ELUCIDA'TION,y Explanation; expofition.—We 
diall, in order to the elucidation of this matter, fubjoin 
the following experiment. Boyle. 
ELUCIDA'TOR,y. Explainer; expofitor; commen¬ 
tator.—Obfcurity is brought over them by the courfe of 
ignorance and age, and yet more by their pedantical elu¬ 
cidations. Abbot. 
ELUCUBRA'TION, f. [from the Lat. e, from, and 
lucubro , to dudy by candle-light.] The aft of dudying by 
candle-light, the produce of cloie dudy. 
To ELU'DE, v. a. [ eludo , Lat.] To efcape by drata- 
gem ; to avoid any mifchief or danger by artifice.—He 
who looks no higher for the motives of his conduct than 
the refentments of human judice, whenever he can pre¬ 
fume himfelf cunning enough to elude , rich enough to 
bribe, or drong enough to refid it, will be under no re- 
draint. Rogers. —-To mock by an unexpected efcape ; 
My gentle Delia beckons from the plain, 
Then, hid in diades, eludes her eager fwain ; 
But feigns a laugh to fee me fearch around, 
And by that laugh the willing fair is found. Pope. 
ELU'DIBLE, adj. Poflible to be defeated.—There is 
not any common-place more infided on than the happi- 
nefs of trials by juries ; yet if this blefled part of our law 
be eludible by power and artifice, we (hall have little rea- 
fon to boad. Swift. 
ELVE'LA. See Agaricus, Helvella, and Tre- 
MELLA. 
EL'YEN, a town of France, in the department of the 
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Morbiban, and chief place of a canton, in the didrift of 
Vannes : two leagues and a half nonh-ead of Vannes! 
ELVES, the plural of elf. See Elf. 
Fairy elves s ’ 
Whofe midnight revels by fome fored fide, 
Or fountain, fome belated peafant (ees, 
Or dreams he fees.' Milton. 
Ye fylphs and fylphids to your chief give ear; 
Fays, fairies, genii, elves, and demons, hear. Pope. 
EL'VESLOCK, f. Knots in the hair fuperditioufly 
fuppofed to be tangled by the fairies. — From the like 
might proceed the fears of polling elve/lock, or compli¬ 
cated hairs of the head. Brown. 
' EL'VISH, adj. [the plural of elf: it is written more 
properly eljijh .] Relating to elves, or wandering fpirits. 
—Thou elvifi markt, abortive rioting hog ! Shakefpeare. 
No nnife hath been fo bold, 
Or of the latter or the old, 
Thofe elvijh fecrets to unfold, 
Which lie from others reading. Drayton. 
ELU'L, f. in ancient chronology, the twelfth month 
of the Jewifii civil year, and the fixth of the ecclefiadi- 
cal : it confided of only twenty-nine days, and anfwered 
nearly to our Augud. 
ELUM'B ATLD, adj. [ elumbis , Lat.] Weakened in the 
loins. 
EL'VO, a river of Italy, which runs into the Sefia, 
two miles north of Vercelle. 
ELU'SION.y. \_duJio, Lat.] An efcape from enquiry 
or examination ; a fraud ; an artifice.—An appendix, re¬ 
lating to the tranfnnitation of metals, aetefts the impof- 
tures and elujions of thofe who have pretended to it. 
Woodward. 
ELU'SIVE, adj. Praftifing elufion; ufing arts to efcape: 
Elujive of the bridal day, (he gives 
Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope. 
ELU'SORY, adj. Tending to elude; tending to de¬ 
ceive ; fraudulent, deceitful ; fallacious.—It may be fear¬ 
ed they are but Parthian flights, ambufeade retreats, and 
elufory tergiverfution. Brown. 
To ELU'TEl, v. a. [ duo , Lat.] To wafii off.—The more 
oily any fpirit is, the more pernicious; becaufe it is harder 
to be eluted by the blood. Arbuthnot. 
ELUTE'RIA,y. in botany. See Cluvtia. 
ELU'THERA, or Alabaster, one of the Bahama or 
I.ucaya iflands, where above fixty families formerly fet¬ 
tled under deputy-governor Holmes, and erected a fort. 
ELUTHE'RI A. See Eleutjheria. 
To ELU'TRIATE, v. a. \_dutrio, Lat.] To decant; or. 
(train out.—The preffure of the air upon the lungs is 
much lefs than it has been computed by fame ; but (till 
it is fomething, and the alteration of one-tenth of its force, 
upon the lungs mud produce fome difference in elutriating . 
the blood as it pafies through the lungs. Arbuthnot. • 
ELUTRI A'TION,/. A term ufed by chemifts to de-- 
note the procefs of waihing, as praftifed by metallurgifts 
and others; and indeed this laft and more familiar word 
is now molt frequently ufed. Thus the metallic ores are 
cleared of earthly admixtures by elutriation, that is to 
fay, wafhing with water, which carries off the lighter 
earthy parts, while the heavier metallic parts fubfide to 
the bottom. 
ELU'VIES,y. [a quagmire, from duo, Lat. to cleanfe.] 
The effluvium from a foul or fwampy place. Alfo the hu¬ 
mour difeharged in a fluor alhus. 
EL'VIUS (Peter), fecretary of the royal academy of 
fciences at Stockholm,, born at Upfal in 1710, and applied 
to mechanics under Triewald and Polheim, and to the 
higher mathematics under Klingflierna, who firft intro¬ 
duced them into Sweden’. In 1738, the royal college of 
mines entrufted him with the care of its collection of. 
machines*. 
