Eleusine, el-ew-si -ne, s

a tropical gra , species of which are cultivated as grain. Greece, or to the mystic rites in honour of Ceres which were there celebrated. on the island of Eleuthera, one of the Bahamas. as now rampant, for individual freedom, viewed as a mad one (Gr. eleutheros, free, and mania). with eleutheromania: s. one so affected. higher; to raise to a higher rank or status; to improve or raise in refinement or character; to elate with pride; to cheer; to raise from any tone to one more acute; to augment or swell: a. elevated; raised high pitched; turned upward, said of wings [Her.] vatedstate; exaltation; dignity; exaltation of mind, style, character, or manners; height; elevated ground; a raising of voice; altitude of a celestial object above the horizon [Astron.]; the angle which the line of direction makes with the plane of the horizon [Gunnery]; the angle which the style makes with the substylar line [Dialling); the progre ion of the tones from grave to acute; also the raising of the hand or foot in beating time [Mus.]; the representation, drawn to a geometrical scale, of the height of a building above the ground [Arch.)] In the Rom. Cath. services, the elevation of the host, that part of the ma in which the priest raises the host above his head,for the people to adore.