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_Burns._

2. Wood reduced to the state of charcoal, S.

3. In _pl._ metaph. for the ruins of a country desolated by war.

_Douglas._

A. S. _ysle_, embers, Isl. _eysa_, carbones candentes sub cinere.

ELBOCK, ELBUCK, _s._ Elbow, S.

_Ramsay._

A. S. _elboga_, Alem. _elnboga_, from A. S. _eln_, the arm, and _boge_, curvature.

~Elbow-grease~, _s._

1. Hard work with the arms, S.

2. Brown rappee, Ang.

ELDARIS, ELDRYS, _s. pl._ Ancestors.

_Barbour._

A. S. _aldor_, Su. G. _aeldre_, senior.

ELDER, _s._ Among Presbyterians, one ordained to the exercise of government without having authority to teach, S.

_Buik of Discipline._

ELDERSCHIP, _s._

1. The ecclesiastical court, now called a Presbytery.

_Buik of Discipline._

2. The Kirk-session of a particular congregation, S.

_Baillie._

A. S. _ealdor-scipe_, princ.i.p.atus.

ELDFADER, _s._