The distant points in the celestial expanse appear to the eye in so small a degree of elongation from one another, as bears no proportion to what is real.
Glanvill.
4. (Astron.) The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury.
E*lope" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Eloped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Eloping.] [D. ontloopen to run away; pref. ont- (akin to G. ent-, AS. and-, cf. E. answer) + loopen to run; akin to E. leap. See Leap, v. t.] To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.
Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance.
Addison.
E*lope"ment (?), n. The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.
E*lop"er (?), n. One who elopes.
E"lops (?), n. [L. elops, helops, a kind of sea fish, Gr. &?;.] 1. (Zoöl.) A genus of fishes. See Saury.