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 Elaboratoire: m. An Elaboratorie, or workehouse.

Elaboré. as Elabouré. Elabouration: f. Elaboration; diligent labour, paines-*taking; a perfect, or skilfull working.

Elabouré: m. ée: f. Elaborated; cunningly wrought, exactly done; laboured painfully, trauelled throughly in.

Elabourer. To elaborate; labour painfully, trauell throughly; to worke exactly, doe a thing fully, and finely.

Elambiqué. as Alambiqué; Distilled. Elambiquer. as Alambiquer; To distill, or extract by Lymbecke. Elan. A certaine wild beast; as Ellend. Elancé: m. ée: f. Launced, cut, pierced, or pricked with a launcet.

Elancement: m. A cutting, launcing, piercing, pricking with a launcet; also, as Eslancement. Elancer. To launce, cut, pricke, pierce with a launcet; also, to hurt, paine, pinch as a stitch doth; Seeke Eslancer. Elangoré: m. ée: f. Langourous, languishing, deiected, crest-fallen.

Elargir. Looke Eslargir. Elarmé de pleurs. That can weepe no more; whose eyes are wholly drained with much weeping.

Elatine: f. The hearbe called Speedwell, or Fluellin the female.

Elation: f. Loftinesse, hautinesse.

Elebore. Seeke Ellebore. Electeur: m. An Elector, a chuser.

Electif: m. iue: f. Electiue, subiect vnto choice; gotten, or passing, by election.

Election: f. An election, or choice, a chusing, culling, or picking out; also, the Prouince, or circuit of an Eleu, or generall assessor of Subsidies.

Electorat: m. An Electorship; a chusing, or electing; or the right, or power of election, such as the seuen Electors of the Empire haue.

Electre: m. Amber whereof beads, and bracelets are made; also, a mixture of gold, copper, and a fift part of siluer.

Electuaire: m. An Electuarie; a medicinable composition made of choice drugs, and of substance betweene a syrrope and a conserue, but more enclining to this then to that.

Elegamment. Elegantly, eloquently; neatly, comptly, quaintly, finely, politely, trimly, minion-like.

Elegance: f. Elegancie, eloquence, daintie speech, neat words, choice of tearmes; also, comptnesse, quaintnesse, neatnesse, trimnesse, delicacie, finesse.

Elegant. Elegant, eloquent, fine-spoken, choice in words, neat in tearmes; also, compt, quaint, spruce, trimme, daintie, delicate, polite.

Elegiaque. Elegiacall, belonging to an Elegie; lamenting, mournefull.

Elegie: f. An Elegie; a mournefull verse, Poeme, Song, or Dittie.

Element: m. An element; as water, earth, fire, or aire; also, a rudiment, or first principle of Art; the ground, foundation, or beginning of any thing.

Elementaire. Elementall; belonging to elements, rudiments, principles.

Elemi. A kind of Gumme, or Rosen (as some will haue it, because it melts before the fire) which is an excellent healer, and closer of head-wounds.

Elemmy. as Elemi.

Elenchie. vnion elenchie. A pendant pearle of the fashion of an egge.

Eleomeli. A sweet, and fat liquor that issues from the old trunks of certaine trees in Syria.

Elephangines. Certaine pills (by Physitians tearmed so, or de aromatibus) good to strengthen the stomack, and to helpe disgestion.

Elephant: m. An Elephant.  Elephant de mer. A kind of great Lobster.

Elephanteau: m. A yong Elephant.

Elephantin. Elephantine; of, or belonging to, an Elephant.

Elephantique. Leaprous, infected with a leaprosie.

Eleu. A generall Assessor of the Kings Aides, and Subsidies in euery particular Circuit, Prouince, or Diocesse; Looke Esleu. Elevation: f. An eleuation, lifting, heauing, holding, raising, or rearing vp; Looke Eslevation. Elevatoire: m. An Eleuatorie; th' instrument where-*with Chirurgions lift vp the broken, and sunke-in parts of the scull; and draw out bullets, or haile-shot thats entred but a little way into the flesh, or bones.

Eleveur: m. A raiser, or lifter vp.

Elice. The signe in heauen called Charles waine[*small w-F1], or Vrsa major. Elicie. A fierie vapour drawne from the clouds: Rab. Elider. To quash, dash, breake, split, or hit against; to pound, or stampe; to squeeze, or presse; to strike, or dash, out; also, to strangle, throttle, stifle.  S'Elider de. To rise, or burst, vp out of.  Elider la production de la partie adverse. Priuily to conuey, or purloine from an aduersarie his chiefest euidence, or proofes; thereby to weaken his cause.

Eligible: com. Eligible; to be elected; fit, or like, to be chosen.

Eliminé: m. ée: f. Thrust, cast, hurled, or put out of doores; also, divulged, or published.

Eliminer. To thrust, cast, hurle, or put out of doore; also, to divulge, or publish abroad.

Elingue. A sling: ¶Norm. Elire. as Eslire; To chuse.

Eliser la monnoye. To pare, clip, or cut, money round about the hemme.

Elixe. Quintessence; or the Philosophers stone; as Elixir. Elixir. Quintessence; or, the Philosephers stone; or one of the names thereof; some take it for the chymicall powder of Production; (the word originally signifies force, or strength.)

Elle. (The feminine of il, or luy) she.

Ellebore blanc. White Hellebore, Lingwort, Neesewort.  Ellebore bastard. The hearb Oxe-eye; also, the black bastard Hellebore.  Ellebore noir. Blacke Hellebore; whereof Gerard describes foure kinds; the true blacke Hellebore; the bastard, or wild blacke Hellebore; great Oxe-heele, or great wild blacke Hellebore; and the ordinarie Oxe-heele, Beares-foot, Setterwort; the two last are also called Lowsie-grasse, and Lowse-worts.

Elleborine: f. Wild white Ellebore.

Ellée. bailler les ellées à vn cheval. To giue a horse the head; to gallop with bridle laid on his necke.

Ellend: m. Th' Elke; a most fearefull, melancholike, strong, swift, short-neckt, and sharp-hooued, wild beast; much troubled with the falling sicknesse, and (by reason of the extraordinarie length of his vpper lip) euer going back-*ward as he grazeth; (some report, that his forelegs are ioyntlesse, and his flesh good venison; but Vigenere''