Elegy

tl'e-p, n. a song of mourning, a lament: a funeral—>ong. [Er.— L.—Gr. ihgos, a lament.] Element, el'e-ment, pnncipdc one of the iwnunl parts of anything an ingiedicnl the ujkt Mate or sphere of any thing or Ikmg — f>l the rudiments of anything:.chem', the simple Ix^dies that have not been decomposed among the ancients, fire, air, earth, and water, supposed to he the constituents of all things: the bread and wine used at the Communion, [L clementum pi. element a first principles.] mote mate mOOn Men. 160 Elemental