Erasure

[ E, and L. Lat. rasura, from rado, to scrape.] Act of erasing; a scratching out; cbliteration; place where a word or letter has been erased or obi iterated. E'rath, in Tezas, a N. central co.; area, abt. 1,000 sq. m. Rivers. Bosque river and Paloxy creek. Cap. Stephenville. Pop. (1897) about 25,400. Er'ato. ( Myth .) The Muse who presided over lyric and tender poetry. She is represented as crowned with rose and myrtle, holding a lyre in her hand. She appears with a thoughtful, and sometimes a gay and animated, look, and was invoked by lovers, especially in the month of April, which, among the Romans, was more particularly devoted to the tender pa ion. Eratosthenes, (er-a-tos' the -nes,) an astronomer of Alexandria, who first conceived the plan of measuring the earth. The means employed were the shadow of a style at Alexandria, and the distance of Alexandria from Syene, when the sun is vertical at solstice. His result was surprisingly near the truth. Starved himself, в. с. 194. IMG:content-0066.png:[graphic] Fig . 957. ERATO. Era to stratus, (er'atos'tra-tus,) an Ephesian, who burnt the temple of Diana (see EPHESUS) the night that Alexander the Great was born. His object was to transmit his name to posterity, by an action so uncommon. Erbium, n. (Chem.) An exceedingly rare metal, found with yttrium and terbium in gadolinite. The oxide erbía is similar in its characteristics to alumina, It has a dark yellow color, but forms colorle salts. Erb's enstein, n. ( Min .) Pisolite.-A concretionary limestone. Er cildoun, in Pennsylvania, a P. O. of Chester co. Ercilla y Zuniga, ALONZO, (air-seel'ya e thoo-ne'ga,) a Spanish poet and soldier, was born in the province of Biscay about 1530. He was brought up at the court of Charles V., and joined an expedition which was sent out to Chili against a tribe called the Araucanians. Hence the origin of his admirable epic of La Araucana , which describes the perils and exploits of that fierce and dangerous contest; this he wrote on scraps of paper, and on bits of feather when paper could not be had, during those brief intervals which could be snatched from active duty. Died, 1595.