erectable

[Eng. erect; -able.] That may or can be erected, raised, or set upright. ě-rěct-ěd, pa. par. or a. [ERECT, v.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : I. Lit .: Set or raised upright; made erect. II. Figuratively : 1. Eager, anxious. "'Tis called a satire, and the world appears Gathering around it with erected ears." Cowper: Charity, 515, 516. *2. Elevated in mind; noble, aspiring. "High erected thoughts seated in a heart of courtesy." -Sir P. Sidney. ě-rěc-těr, ě-rěc-tõr, s . [Eng.erect; -er.] One who or that which erects, sets up, or builds. ě-rěc-tile, a. [Fr. érectile .] erenow ě-rěc-to-, prefix. [Lat. erect us erect.] Erect. erecto-patent, a. 1. Bot .: The same as ERECTLY-SPREADING (q.v.). 2. Entom.: Having the primary wings vertical and the secondary ones horizontal. ě-rěc-tõr, s. [Fr. érecteur.] I. Ord. Lang.: One who erects, raises, sets up, or establishes. II. Technically : 1. Anat .: A muscle which causes the erection of any part. 2. Optics : An arrangement to antagonize the inversion of the image formed by the object-gla , by again inverting the image to make it correspond in position with the object. It is a tube about three inches long, having a meniscus at one end and a plano-convex lens at the other, the convex sides upward, and a diaphragm about half-way between them. The erector is screwed into the lower end of the draw-tube. *erege, s . [O. Fr. herege : Sp. & Port. harage , from Lat. hæreticus .] A heretic. êre'-lõng, adv . [Eng. ere; -long.] Before the lapse of any long time; before long; soon. "I think erelong he will believe." Mas singer: Unnatural Combat , iii. 2. ě-re-ma-câu-sis, s . [Gr. hērem a slowly, and kausis burning.] Chem.: A name given by Liebig to the slow oxid a Anat .: Capable of being erected; susceptible of tion of vegetable matter when exposed to air and erection. erectile-ti ue, s. Anat .: A kind of ti ue entering into some organs of the body which are capable of being rendered turgid or erected by their distension with blood. It is called also Cavernous ti ue. The ě-rěc-til-I-tě, s. [Eng. erectil(e); -ity.] quality or state of being erectile; capability of being erected. ě-rěct'-Ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [ERECT, v.] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip . adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of raising or setting upright; erection. erecting eye-piece, s. Optics: A combination of four lenses used for terrestrial telescopes, and so arranged as to exhibit the objects viewed in an erect position. erecting-gla , s . A tube with two lenses, slipped into the inner end of the draw-tube of a mi croscope, and serving to erect the inverted image. [ERECTOR, II. 2.] erecting-prism, s. [ERECTOR, II. 2.] ě-rěc-tion, s. [Lat. erectio, from erect us, pa. par. of erigo; Fr. érection; Span. ereccion; Italian erezione.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of erecting, raising, or setting upright or perpendicular; a raising or setting up. 2. The act of building, constructing, or raising edifices. "The erection of several spacious parish churches."Porteus: Works, vol. i., lect. viii. (Note.) 3. The state of being erected, built, or raised up. 4. That which is erected or raised up; a building, a construction. 5. The act of establishing, forming, setting up, or instituting. "After the first erection of the Scotish king do me." Holinshed: Hist . of Scotland , an. 203. 6. The state of being established, formed, set up, or instituted. *7. Elevation, nobility, or exaltation of sentiments. "Her peerle height my mind to high erection draws up."- Sir P. Sidney. *8. The act of rousing, stimulating, exciting, or encouraging. "When a man would listen suddenly he starteth; for the starting is an erection of the spirits to attend." Bacon . II. Anat .: The state of a part when it becomes turgid or distended with blood. [ERECTILE-TISSUE.] [Eng. erect; -ive.] Tending to IMG:content-1113.png:[blocks in formation] erect or set upright; erecting, raising. moisture. Eremacausis is accompanied by evolution of heat, which may cause large ma es of cotton, flax, hay, and other substances of a porous nature, when damp or greasy, to take fire sponta neously. The hydrogen of the organic body is converted into water, and the carbon into carbonic acid; the oxygen in the body unites with the hydrogen to form water, so the substance formed, humus, ., contains a larger percentage of carbon than the original substance. The nitrogen escapes into the air, either as free nitrogen or ammonia, unle an alkali or alkaline earth is present, then a nitrate is formed. ěr-ě-mit-age (age as Ig), 8. [Eng. eremit(e); -age.] A hermitage. *er-ě-mit-al, a. [Mid. Eng. eremit (e); al .] Of or pertaining to a hermit.