ejaculation

[Lat. ejaculatus, pa. par. of ejaculo; Fr. éjaculation; Ital. ejaculazione.] *I. Lit .: The act of shooting or darting out with sudden force and rapid flight. II. Figuratively : 1. The act of ejaculating or uttering a short, sudden exclamation or prayer. 2. A short, sudden exclamation or cry uttered. "An ejaculation of penitence or a hymn of thanksgiving."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xi. For the difference between ejaculation and effusion, see EFFUSION. e-jăc-u-lat-or-ў, *e-jac-u-lat-or-ie, a. [Eng. ejaculat(e); -ory.] I. Ordinary Language *1. Emitting or causing a short, sharp motion. 2. Suddenly or sharply uttered or exclaimed; of the nature of an ejaculation. "They used it rather upon some short ejaculatory prayers, than in their larger devotions." - Duppa: Devotion. *3. Sudden, hasty. II. Anat . & Physiol.: Designed for ejecting or emitting with force any fluid; as, ejaculatory ducts. e-ject, v . t . [Lat. eject us , pa. par. of ejicio to cast or throw out: e = ex =out, and jacio to throw.] I. Ordinary Language : IMG:content-0806.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0807.png:[blocks in formation] Action of ejectment: Law : An action wherein the title to certain lands and tenements may be tried and po e ion recovered in cases, when the claimant has a right of entry. It is begun by the serving of a writ of ejectment on the tenant in po e ion, setting forth that the plaintiff in the action lays claim to the estate in question, and calling upon all interested to appear within a certain time and defend their right, failing which the tenant in po e ion will be ejected. "The action of ejectment has, I may add, been rendered an easy and expeditious remedy to landlords whose tenants are in arrear, or who hold over after their term has expired or been determined. For every landlord who has a right of re-entry in case of non-payment of rent, when half a year's rent is due and no sufficient distre is to be had, may serve a writ of ejectment on his tenant, to fix the same upon some notorious part of the premises, which shall be valid, without any formal re-entry or previous demand of rent. And a recovery in such ejectment shall be final and conclusive, both in law and equity, unle the rent and all costs be paid or tendered within six calendar months afterward."-Black stone: Comment., bk. iii., ch. 7. ē-jěc-tõr, s. [Latin, from eject us, pa. par. of ejicio.] I. Ord. Lang .: One who or that which ejects, throws, or drives out. II. Technically : 1. Law : One who ejects or dispo e es another from his tenancy. "He had no other remedy against the ejector but in damages for the trespa committed in ejecting him from his farm."- Black stone : Comment., bk. iii., ch. 7. 2. Mach .: A device wherein a body of elastic fluid, such as steam or air, under pre ure and in motion is made the means of driving a liquid such as water or oil. The effect of a body of escaping steam in setting liquids in motion was observed long ago, but the most notable instance is the Giffard Injector [INJECTOR), which is used as a feed-water pump for steam-boilers. The ejector acts on a similar principle, but is applied to eject or lift liquids. 3. Firearms: That device in a breech-loading firearm which withdraws the empty cartridge-case from the bore of the gun. 4. Ship build .: A device on shipboard for carrying up the ashes from the stokeholes of steamships and discharging them overboard. The ashes are shoveled into a box, and a steam-jet being driven into the mouthpiece of the pipe, causes an induced current of air, which carries the ashes along with it up the pipe, and overboard above the water-line. ejector-condenser, s . Steam-eng.: A form of condenser worked by the exhaust steam from the cylinder. The apparatus consists e entially of three concentric tubes terminating in conoidal nozzles, and opening into the hot well or waste-water receptacle by a common and gradually widening or trumpet-shaped mouthpiece; the inlet-tube is in communication with the water tank from which the current of injection water is obtained, while each of the other tubes conveys the exhaust steam from one of the cylinders. In starting, steam is admitted, and pa ing along the axial pipe, i ues at the nozzle, drawing with it water from the cold-water pipe, which condenses the steam from the exhaust pa ages of the respective cylinders, and has momentum enough to carry the condensed steam and itself to the hot-well. *ěj-u-lā-tion, s. [Latin ejulatio , from ejulo = to cry out, to wail.] A wailing aloud, an outcry, mourning, or lamentation. "Boeotia's hills And caves with ejulation from the camp Rebellowed round." Glover: A then aid , bk. xxiii.