Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Elix

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

E'LIX. An ancient word, expressing a broad deep furrow drawn between the ridges in corn fields, for the purpose of draining the moisture from the roots of the plant. Serv. ad Virg. G. i. 109. Columell. ii. 8. 3.