Crossword-Solution: ELLIPTICAL 10 letters, 25 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

When he was tired, his lectures were clouded, obscure, elliptical; but when he was interested they were wonderful.

Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; Ð elliptical, for but that.

One class, constituting, perhaps, not more than one-tenth of one per cent, or a thousandth part of the whole number, “read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest”; the remaining ninety-nine and nine-tenths per cent, through a habit of loose and indiscriminate reading, are unequal to the sustained concentration of mind demanded by the higher poetry, the language of which is characterized by a severe economy of expression--a closeness of texture, resulting from the elliptical energy of highly impassioned thought.

These vessels became technically known as "crabs." They were not large, and the only part of them which projected above the water was the middle of an elliptical deck, slightly convex, and heavily mailed with ribs of steel.

The fact is that the water never touches the hot iron at all, provided the heat is sufficiently intense, but assumes a slightly elliptical shape and is supported by a cushion of vapor.