- Culminating point - Culmination - Decisive point - Final reckoning - High point - Max followed 151 to see big finish - Mother was sandwiched between 151 Romans and 10 at the highlight
- In the direction of the sun's apparent motion, or from
the east southward and westward, and so around the circle; also, in the
same direction as the movement of the hands of a watch lying face
upward.
- One who, or that which, elates. - An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in
some liverworts. - Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when
laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement
of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also
click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle. - The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for
leaping. See Collembola. - The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice
of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly
Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a
bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.