with a few horses. The clergyman has several other small islands under his charge, and, in visiting Cannay, has to perform a voyage of twenty-four miles. There is also a resident Roman Catholic clergyman. Distant from the shore of Scotland eight miles. EJECT, v. a. Į Fr. jetter, from Lat. ejicio, EJECTION, n. s. S ejectum; i. e. e out, and jacio to hurl. To throw out; expel: hence to cast away; discharge.

torn at the top. Species nine, natives of the West Indies, and South America. EJACULATE, v. a. Lat. ejaculor, from e EJACULATION, n. s. forth, and jaculor to EJACULATORY, adj. Shurl or throw, as a dart. To dart out or shoot forth: applied metaphorically, to words or to acts of the mind. Ejaculation is used both for the act of darting or throwing out, and words (hence prayers) or things ejaculated: ejaculatory is throwing, or having the power of throwing out: hence, uttered shortly or suddenly, and sudden or hasty.

There seemeth to be acknowledged, in the act of envy, an ejaculation or irradiation of the eye. Bacon's Essays.

In your dressing let there be ejaculations fitted to the several actions of dressing; as at washing your hands, pray to God to cleanse your soul from sin.

Taylor's Guide to Devotion.

The continuance of this posture might incline to ease and drowsiness; they used it rather upon some short ejaculatory prayers, than in their larger devotions. Duppa's Devotion.

We are not to value ourselves upon the merit of ejaculatory repentances, that take us by fits and starts. L'Estrange.

Being rooted so little way in the skin, nothing near so deeply as the quills of fowls, they are the more easily ejaculated. Grew's Museum.

The mighty magnet from the centre darts strong, though subtile force, through all the

This

EICHSFELD, a province of Prussia (in part ceded to that power by Hanover, in 1818), and part of the present principality of Calenberg. It is divided into the Upper and Lower Eichs. field, and contains 90,000 inhabitants. The other and larger part, not belonging to Hanover, was a part of the electorate of Mentz.

EICHSTADT, a town and bishop's see of Bavaria, in the circle of the Upper Danube, situated in a valley on the Alt. The king of Bavaria conferred the title of prince of Eichstadt on Eugene Beauharnois, his son-in-law, formerly viceroy of Italy. A convent in this town is much visited by zealous Catholics as containing a supposed relic of St. Wilibald. Population 6000. Thirty-two miles N. N. E. of Augsburg.

EICK (John Van), a celebrated Flemish painter, commonly called John of Bruges, from his birth place, flourished in the fifteenth century, and was the first who discovered the method of painting in oil. Being a chemist, he found in the course of his experiments, that, by grinding colors with linseed or nut oil, he could form them into a solid body which would resist water, and not need the varnish used in painting in water colors or in fresco. He presented the first picture painted in this manner to Alphonsus I. king of Naples, who was much pleased with it. EIDER DUCK. See ANAS.

EIGG, an island of the Hebrides, six miles in length and from one to three in breadth, containing a superficial area of about eleven square miles. Kelp and wool are yielded here, together

To have ejected whatsoever the church doth take account of, be never so harmlesss in itself, and of never so ancient continuance, without any other crime to charge it with, than only that it hath been the hap thereof to be used by the church of Rome, and not to be commanded in the word of God, could not have been defended. Hooker.

We are peremptory to dispatch
This viperous traitor; to eject him hence,
Were but our danger; and to keep him here,
Our certain death; therefore it is decreed
He dies to night.

Shakspeare. Coriolanus.
Infernal lightning sallies from his throat!
Ejected sparks upon the billows float!

Sandys.

It was the force of conquest; force with force Is well ejected, when the conquered can. Milton. The French king was again ejected when our king submitted to the church. Dryden. Tears may spoil the eyes, but not wash away the affliction; sighs may exhaust the man, but not eject the burthen. South.

The heart, as said, from its contracted cave, On the left side ejects the bounding wave.

Blackmore.

Will any man say, that if the words whoring and drinking were by parliament ejected out of the English tongue, we should all awake next morning chaste and temperate. Swift.

These stories are founded on the ejection of the Broome.

fallen angels from heaven.

EJECTION, in Scotish law, is the turning out the possessor of any heritable subject by force; and is either legal or illegal.

1. EJECTION, ILLEGAL, is one person's violently turning another out of possession, without lawful authority.

2. EJECTION, LEGAL, is where a person having no title to possess, is turned out by the authority of law.

EJECTMENT, in English law, a writ or action which lies for the lessee for years, on his being ejected or put out of his land before the expiration of his term, either by the lessor or a stranger. It may also be brought by the lessor against the lessee, for rent in arrears, or holding over his term, &c. Ejectment of late is become an action in the place of many real actions, as writs of right, formedons, &c., which are very difficult, as well as tedious and expensive; and this is now the common action for trial of titles and recovering of lands, &c., illegally held from the right owner: yet where entry is taken away by descents, fines, recoveries, disseisins, &c. an ejectment shall not be brought; whereby we find that all titles cannot be tried by this action. The method of proceeding in the action of ejectment is to draw up a declaration, and feign therein a lease for three, five, or seven years, to him that would try the title; and also feign a casual ejector or defendant; and then deliver the declaration to the ejector, who serves a copy of it on the tenant in

possession, and gives notice at the bottom for him to appear and defend his title; or that he, the feigned defendant, will suffer judgment by default, whereby the true tenant will be turned out of possession; to this declaration the tenant is to appear at the beginning of next term by his attorney, and consent to a rule to be made defendant, instead of the casual ejector, and take upon him the defence, in which he must confess lease, judgment, entry, and ouster, and at the trial stand upon the title only: but in case the tenant in possession does not appear, and enter into the said rule in time, after the declaration served, then, on affidavit being made of the service of the declaration, with the notice to appear as aforesaid, the court will order judgment to be entered against the casual ejector by default; and thereupon the tenant in possession, by writ habere facias possessionem, is turned out. On the trial in ejectment, the plaintiff's title is to be set forth from the person last seised in fee, under whom the lessor claims down to the plaintiff, proving the deeds, &c., and the plaintiff shall recover only according to the right which he has at the time of bringing his action. And here, another who has title to the land, may be defendant in the action with the tenant in possession; for the possession of the lands is primarily in question, and to be recovered, which concerns the tenant, and the title thereto is tried collaterally, which

may concern some other.

Ejectment ought to be brought for a thing that is certain; and if it be of a manor, the manor of A, with the appurtenances; if of a rectory, the rectory of B, &c. And so many messuages, cottages, acres of arable land, meadow, &c., with the appurtenances in the parish of, &c. For land must be distinguished, how much of one sort, and how much of another, &c., Cro. Eliz. 339. 3 Leon. 13. Ejectment lies of a church, as of an house called the parish church of, &c. And a church is a messuage, by which name it may be recovered: and the declaration is to be served on the parson who performs divine service. 11 Rep. 25. 1 Salk. 256. A rector may recover in ejectment against his lessee, on the ground of the lease of the rectory being avoided on account of his own non-residence, by force of the 13 Eliz. c. 20, and the lease to the defendant, describing him as doctor in divinity, produced by him at the trial in support of his title, is primâ facie evidence of his being such as he is therein described to be, so as to avoid the lease under stat. 21 Hen. 8. c. 13. § 3. It lies de uno messuagio sive burgagio; but not de uno messuagio sive tenemento, unless it have a vocat A. &c. to make it good, because of the uncertainty of the word tenement. 1 Sid. 295. But for a messuage and tenement hath been allowed. 1 Term Rep. 11. So indeed for a messuage or tenement. 3 Wils. 23. 3 Mod. 328. Sid. 295. but see contra, 1 East's Rep. 441, 2. It will lie for a moiety, or third part of a manor or messuage, &c. And for a chamber or room of a house well set forth. 11 Rep. 55. 59. 3 Leon. 210. It lieth de domo, which hath convenient certainty for the sheriff to deliver possession, &c. Cro. Jac. 654. It lies of a cottage or curtilage; of a coal-mine, &c. but not

of a common, piscary, &c. Cro. Jac. 150. For underwood it lies, though a præcipe doth not. 2 Roll. Rep. 482, 483. But for uno clauso, or una pecia terræ, &c. without certainty of the acres, and their nature, it doth not lie. 11 Rep. 55. 4 Mod. 1. It lieth of a close, containing three acres of pasture, &c. Also of so many acres of land covered with water; though not de aquæ cursu. Cro. Jac. 435. 1 Brownl. 242. It also lies for a prebendal stall, after collation to it. 1 Wils. 14. EIGHT, adj. EIGHTH, EIGHTEEN', EIGHTEENTH, EIGHT FOLD, EIGHTH LY, adv. EIGHT'IETH, adj. EIGHTSCORE, EIGHT'Y.

7 Sax. eahta, æhta; Belg. | agt; Scottish and Teut. acht; Goth. ahta, attha, and ath; Dan. atte; Fr. huit; Lat. octo; Gr. OKTO. A word of number; twice four. Eighth is the ordinal of eight eightfold is eight times the number or quantity; eighthly is in the eighth place; eighteen, eight and ten; eightscore, eight twenties; eighty, eight ten times told.

And it was don aftir these wordis almeest eighte

dayes: and he took Petre and James and Jon, and he stiede into an hil to preye. Wiclif. Luke ix.

circumside the child, and thei clepiden him Zacarye by the name of his fadir.

And it was doon in the eightithe day thei camen to

Id. Luk i.

And as the eyghtene on which the tower in Siloa fel doun and slough hem, gessen ye for thei weren

dettouris more than alle men that dwellen in Jerusa.
lem?
Id. Luk. xiii.
In the eighteenth year of Jeroboam died Abijam.
1 Kings.
Another yet?-A seventh! I'll see no more;
And yet the eighth appears. Shakspeare. Macbeth.
He can't take two from twenty, for his heart,
And leave eighteen.
Id. Cymbeline.
What! keep a week away? seven days and nights?
Eightscore eight hours? and lovers absent hours,
More tedious than the dial eightscore times?
Oh weary reckoning!

Id. Othello.

Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen, And each hour's joy wrecked with a week of teen. Shakspeare. In the eighth month should be the reign of Saturn. Bacon.

Eighthly, living creatures have voluntary motion, Bacon's Natural History. which plants have not. This island contains eightscore and eight miles in Sandys's Journey circuit.

Among all other climacterick three are most remarkable; that is, seven times seven, or forty-nine; nine times nine or eighty one; and seven times nine, or the year sixty-three, which is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality.

Browne's Vulgar Errours.

Oft, where his feathered foe had reared her nest, And laid her eggs and household gods to rest, Burning for blood in terrible array,

The eighteen-inch militia burst their way;
All went to wreck; the infant foemen fell,
When scarce his chirping bill had broke the shell.
Beattie.

EIGNE, adj. Fr. aisne. In law, denotes the eldest or first born. Here it signifies unalienable, as being entailed.

It happeneth not seldom, that, to avoid the yearly

oath, for averment of the continuance of some estate

for life, which is eigne, and not subject to forfeiture for the alienation that cometh after it, the party will offer to sue for a pardon uncompelled before the time; in all which, some mitigation of the uttermost value may weli and worthily be offered. Bacon.

EIMBECK, an old town of Hanover, on the Ilme, with 5000 inhabitants. It belonged to the Hanseatic confederacy, and has some manufactures, but is not thriving. Great part of its fortifications were demolished by the French in 1761. Forty-eight miles S. S.W. of Brunswick. EIMEO, or MOVEA, one of the Society Islands in the South Pacific, about ten miles in length by five in breadth. The harbour of Taloo on the north coast is the best; and here the water is so clear, that the branching of beautiful coral is visible at great depths. The island is hilly and rocky, with valleys interposed. Twelve miles west of Otaheite.

EINURA, or YENNOOR, a town in the district of South Canara, Hindostan, containing eight temples belonging to the Jain, and one to the Siva Brahmins. The former have an annual allowance of fourteen and the latter ten pagodas. There is an immense colossal image here of one of the gods of the Jains, which stands in the open air. It is formed of one solid piece of granite. The hills and neighbourhood about this place are considered unproductive.

EISENACH, a principality of Germany in Thuringia, and circle of Upper Saxony, situated on the confines of Hesse. It is mountainous, and scarcely produces corn enough for the inhabitants. Some indifferent wine is made: but it has mines of copper, iron, vitriol, and alum, with some salt springs. It gave a vote to the duke of Saxe Weimar, in the diets and assemblies of the circle. Population 62,000. Its rivers are the Warra, Slade, Unstrut, and Fulda.

EISENACH, the capital of the above province, is situated on a rising ground near the junction of the Hesse and Horsa. It has a castle in the market-place as old as the eleventh century, and formerly the residence of the princes of Eise

nach. The streets are neat and well built. Population 5000. On a high mountain in the immediate neighbourhood stands the castle of Wartburg, remarkable as the prison of Luther in 1521, when the elector of Saxony judged his temporary confinement expedient. Eisenach has a few coarse woollen manufactures. It experienced, on the 1st of September, 1810, a severe calamity, three powder waggons having exploded in the streets, and destroyed many houses. Twenty-six miles W.S.W. of Erfurt, and forty east of Weimar. Long. 10° 20′ 15′′ E., lat. 50° 58′ 55′′ N.

EISENARTZ, a town of Upper Styria, containing 1350 inhabitants. It is 2190 feet above the level of the sea, at the foot of a hill which contains one of the richest iron mines known.

This was discovered in 712, and still produces 50,000 tons of ore yearly, giving employment to 2500 miners and smelters. Ten miles north of

Leoben.

EISENBERG, a town of Germany, in the principality of Altenburg. It has a castle and a few manufactures; being situated on an eminence near the Saale. Twenty miles west of Altenburg, and thirty south-west of Leipsic. Population 3300.

EISENBURG, a county of Lower Hungary, on the borders of Austria and Styria, adjoining the counties of Oldenburg, Sala, and Wesprim. It is exceedingly fertile and populous, containing near 300,000 inhabitants. Its rivers are the Roab, Rabnitz, Guns, Sala, and Mur. Great part of it is covered with wood; other parts are appropriated to pasture and the culture of the vine. The population is a mixture of Hungarians, Germans, Croatians, and Jews.

EISLEBEN, the capital of the county of Mansfeld, Prussia, is chiefly remarkable as the birth place of Luther. The house in which the reformer was born and died being burnt down in 1594, it was rebuilt at the expense of the town, and is now used as a public school. Here are four churches, all Lutheran, and about 5400 inhabitants. It is divided into the Old and New Town, and the suburbs; large vacancies having been made between the buildings, in consequence of the frequent fires that have ravaged this place. The adjacent mines of Mansfield afford employment to many of the inhabitants, two miles southeast of Mansfeld, and twelve west of Halle.

EITHER, pron, & conj. Sax. egther; Scot. aithau; Goth. aithwar, or aithau, i. e. eitt twar, or thera, one of them. One of two, used improperly for each; any of an indeterminate number. Used distributively as a conjunction corresponding with or.

ful to do wel in the sabate or yuel; for to make saaf, And Jhesus sayed to hem, Y axe you if it is leveethir to lecse. Wiclif. Luk. vi.

We doubt whether the Lord in different circumstances, did frame his people unto any utter dissimilitude, either with Egyptians or any other nation.

Hooker.

Lepidus flatters both,
Of both is flattered; but he neither loves,
Nor either cares for him.

Shakspeare. Antony and Cleopatra. Henry VIII. Francis I. and Charles V. were SO provident, that scarce a palm of ground could be gotten

I speak too long; but 't is to piece the time,
To eke it, and to draw it out in length,
To stay you from election.

Id. Merchant of Venice.
Now, if 'tis chiefly in the heart,
That courage does itself exert,
"Twill be prodigious hard to prove,

That this is eke the throne of love. Prior. Your ornaments hung all, On some patched doghole eked with ends of wall. Pope. EKRON, a city and government of the Philistines. It fell by lot to the tribe of Judah, in the first division made by Joshua (xv. 45.) but was afterwards given to the tribe of Dan, (xix. 43.) It was situated near the Mediterranean, between Ashdod and Jamnia. Ekron was a powerful city, and it does not appear that the Jews were ever sole peaceable possessors of it: the Ekronites were the first who said that it was necessary to send back the ark of the God of Israel, in order to be delivered from those calamities which the presence of it brought upon their country. 1 Sam. v. 10. The idol Baalzebub was principally adored at Ekron. 2 Kings i. 2. &c. ELA'BORATE, v. a. & adj.ELA'BORATELY, adv. ELA BORATENESS, n. s. ELABORA'TION.

e, out, and laboro, to labor. To prove by labor: as an adjective, riously finished or performed.

Spanish and Port. elaborar; Ital. and Lat. elaborare, from produce or imhighly or labo

They in full joy elaborate a sigh. Young. In the theatre, the first intuitive glance, without any elaborate process of reasoning, would show, that this method of political computation would justify every extent of crime. Burke.

As the glands which produce the prolific dust of the anthers, the honey, wax, and frequently some odoriferous essential oil, are generally attached to the corol, and always fall off and perish with it, it is evident that the blood is elaborated or oxygenated in this pulmonary system for the purpose of these important secretions. Darwin.

ELEAGNUS, the oleaster, or wild olive, a genus of the monogynia order, and tetrandria class of plants; natural order sixteenth, calyciflora: COR. none CAL. campanulated, quadrifid, superior: FRUIT a plum below the campanulated calyx This genus must not be confounded with the oleaster or wild olive of Gerard, Parkinson, and Ray which is only a particular species of olive, called by Tournefort and Casper Bauhine, olea sylves tris. See OLEA. There are ten species.

1. E. inermis, without thorns, is the kind commonly preserved in the gardens of this country. The leaves are more than three inches long, and half an inch broad, and have a shining appearance like satin. The flowers come out at the foot-stalks of the leaves, sometimes singly, at other times two, and sometimes three, at the same place. The outside of the empalement is silvery and studded; the inside of a pale yellow. It has a very strong scent. The flowers appear in July, and are sometimes succeeded by fruit.

2. E. latifolia, with oval leaves, is a native of Ceylon, and some other parts of India. In this country it rises with a woody stem to eight or nine feet, dividing into many crooked branches, garnished with oval and silvery leaves, which have several irregular spots of a dark color on the surface. They are placed alternately on the branches, and continue all the year.

3. E. spinosa, the eastern broad-leaved olive with a large fruit, is a native of the Levant and some parts of Germany. The leaves are about two inches long, and one and a half broad in the middle. They are placed alternate, and are of a silver color: at the foot-stalk of every leaf there comes out a pretty long sharp thorn, which are alternately longer: the flowers are small, the inside of the empalement is yellow, and they have a strong scent when fully open.

The first and last species may be propagated by laying down the young shoots in autumn. They will take root in one year; when they may be cut off from the old trees, and either transplanted into a nursery for two or three years, or into places where they are to remain. The proper time is in the beginning of March, or early in autumn. They should be screened from high winds; for they grow very freely, and are apt to be split by the wind, if too much exposed. The latifolia is too tender to endure the open air of this country; and therefore must be kept in a warm stove, except during a short time in the warmest part of summer. From the flower of these plants an aromatic and cordial water has been drawn, which is said to have been successfully used in putrid and pestilential fevers.

ELEOCARPUS, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, and polyandria class of plants: COR. pentapetalous and lacerated: CAL. pentaphyllous: FRUIT a plum with a wrinkled kernel. Species five, natives of India and New Zealand.

ELEOMELI, in ancient medicine, a sweet oil, as thick as honey, said to flow from a tree in Syria, and to have been useful in bilious complaints.

ELEOTHESIUM, in antiquity, the anointing room, or place where those who were to