Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE

E·jec"ta (?), n. pl. [L., neut. pl. of ejectus cast out. See Eject.] Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body.

E·jec"tion (?), n. [L. ejectio: cf. F. éjection.]

1. The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast ejection of ashes." Eustace. "The ejection of a word." Johnson.

2. (Physiol.) The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.

3. The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.

E·ject"ment (?), n.

1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.

2. (Law) A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton.

E·ject"or (?), n.

1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.

2. (Mech.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.

3. That part of the mechanism of a breech-loading firearm which ejects the empty shell.

-- Ejector condenser (Steam Engine), a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump.

E"joo (ē"j), n. [Malay ījū or hījū.] Gomuti fiber. See Gomuti.

Ej`u·la"tion (?), n. [L. ejulatio, fr. ejulare to wail, lament.] A wailing; lamentation. [Obs.] "Ejulation in the pangs of death." Philips.

Ek"a·bor` (ĕk"·bōr`), Ek"a·bo"ron (-bō"rŏn), n. [G., fr. Skr. ēka one + G. bor, boron, E. boron.] (Chem.) The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but since discovered and named scandium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the boron group. See Scandium.