Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DEEk"e·berg`ite (?), n. [From Ekeberg, a German.] (Min.) A variety of scapolite. Eke"name` (?), n. [See Nickname.] An additional or epithet name; a nickname. [Obs.] Ek"ing (?), n. [From Eke, v. t.] (Shipbuilding) (a) A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length. (b) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery. [Written also eiking.] E"-la` (?), n. Originally, the highest note in the scale of Guido; hence, proverbially, any extravagant saying. "Why, this is above E-la!" Beau. & Fl. E·lab"o·rate (?), a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See Labor.] Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Syn. -- Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought. -- E·lab"o·rate·ly, adv. -- E·lab"o·rate·ness, n. E·lab"o·rate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elaborated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Elaborating (?).] 1. To produce with labor They in full joy elaborate a sigh, 2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work. The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. |