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; as, ellagic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ellagic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, C14H8O9, found in bezoar stones, and obtained by the oxidation of gallic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

{ a., n }. See Elenge, Elengeness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'e`lleipsis, prop., a defect, the inclination of the ellipse to the base of the cone being in defect when compared with that of the side to the base: cf. F. ellipse. See Ellipsis. ] 1. (Geom.) An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Omission. See Ellipsis. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The elliptical orbit of a planet. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Sun flies forward to his brother Sun;
The dark Earth follows wheeled in her ellipse. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]