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Elytron
- noun - either of the horny front wings in beetles and some other insects which cover and protect the functional hind wings
Elytrum
- - One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair. See Coleoptera. (b) One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Ch.
Elzevir
- - Applied to books or editions (esp. of the Greek New Testament and the classics) printed and published by the Elzevir family at Amsterdam, Leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them.
Em Quad
- noun - a quad with a square body; "since `em quad' is hard to distinguish from `en quad', printers sometimes called it a `mutton quad'"
Emailed
- verb - communicate electronically on the computer; "she e-mailed me the good news"
Emanant
- - Issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.
Emanate
- verb - give out (breath or an odor); "The chimney exhales a thick smoke"
- proceed or issue forth, as from a source; "Water emanates from this hole in the ground"
Embalms
- verb - preserve a dead body
Embanks
- verb - enclose with banks, as for support or protection; "The river was embanked with a dyke"