Index of English words, starting with "el"

(1) - Elegancy (n.) That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.
(2) - Elegancy (n.) The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc.

(1) - Elegant (a.) Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
(2) - Elegant (a.) Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.

(1) - Elegantly (adv.) In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.

(1) - Elegiac (n.) Elegiac verse.
(2) - Elegiac (a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
(3) - Elegiac (a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.