n. [ AS. eln; akin to D. el, elle, G. elle, OHG. elina, Icel. alin, Dan. alen, Sw. aln, Goth. alenia, L. ulna elbow, ell, Gr. &unr_; elbow. Cf. Elbow, Alnage. ] A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Arch.) See L. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Native Indian name. ] (Zoöl.) A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F., fr. galle gall (with the letters reversed). ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid;
Ellagic acid (Chem.),
n. Hellebore. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Helleborin. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Zoöl.) The red gurnard or cuckoo fish. [ Prov. Eng. ]
adv. & conj. See Else. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr.
The Sun flies forward to his brother Sun;
The dark Earth follows wheeled in her ellipse. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]