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_Woodstock_ (time, Commonwealth). ELEANOR CROSSES, twelve or fourteen crosses erected by Edward I. in the various towns where the body of his queen rested, when it was conveyed from Herdelie, near Lincoln, to Westminster. The three that still remain are Geddington, Northampton, and Waltham. ELEAZAR the Moor, insolent, bloodthirsty, lustful, and vindictive, like "Aaron," in [Shakespeare's?] _Titus An-dron'icus._ The lascivious queen of Spain is in love with this monster.--C. Marlowe, _Lust's dominion_ or _The Lascivious Queen_ (1588). _Elea'zar_, a famous mathematician, who cast out devils by tying to the nose of the possessed a mystical ring, which the demon no sooner smelled than he abandoned the victim. He performed before the Emperor Vespasian; and to prove that something came out of the possessed, he commanded the demon in making off to upset a pitcher of water, which it did. I imagine if Eleazar's ring had been put under their noses, we should have seen devils issue with their breath, so loud were these disputants.-- Lesage, _Gil Blas_, v. 12 (1724). ELECTOR (_The Great_), Frederick William of Brandenburg (1620-1688). ELEIN, wife of King Ban of Benwick (_Brittany_), and mother of Sir Launcelot and Sir Lionell. (See ELAIN.)--Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, i. 60 (1470) ELEVEN THOUSAND VIRGINS (_The_), the virgins who followed St. Ur'sula in her flight towards Rome. They were all massacred at Cologne by a party of Huns, and even to the present hour "their bones" are shown lining the whole interior of the Church of Ste. Ursula. A calendar in the Freisingen codex notices them as "SS. M. XL VIRGINUM," this is, eleven virgin martyrs; but "M" (martyrs) being taken for 1000, we get 11,000. It is furthermore remarkable that the number of names known of these virgins is eleven; (1) Ursula, (2) Sencia, (3) Gregoria, (4) Pinnosa, (5) Martha, (6) Saula, (7) Brittola, (8) Saturnina, (9) Rabacia or Sabatia, (10) Saturia or Saturnia, and (11) Palladia. ELFENREIGEN [_el.f'n-ri.gn_] (4 _syl_.) or Alpleich, that weird music with which Bunting, the pied piper of Hamelin, led forth the rats into the river Weser, and the children into a cave in the mountain Koppenberg. The song of the sirens is so called. EL'FETA, wife of Cambuscan', king of Tartary. EL'FLIDA or AETHELFLAEDA, daughter of King Alfred, and wife of Aethelred, chief of that part of Mercia not claimed by the Danes. She was a wom
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