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  Electrical light \Electrical light\,
     1. the light produced by a current of electricity which in
        passing through a resisting medium heats it to
        incandescence or burns it. See under Carbon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. a lamp whose light is produced by passing an electric
        current through a light bulb, especially an incandescent
        lamp.
        [PJC]

  Electric \E*lec"tric\, Electrical \E*lec"tric*al\, a. [L.
     electrum amber, a mixed metal, Gr. ?; akin to ? the beaming
     sun, cf. Skr. arc to beam, shine: cf. F. ['e]lectrique. The
     name came from the production of electricity by the friction
     of amber.]
     1. Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing,
        derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric
        power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an
        electric spark.
  
     2. Capable of occasioning the phenomena of electricity; as,
        an electric or electrical machine or substance.
  
     3. Electrifying; thrilling; magnetic. ``Electric Pindar.''
        --Mrs. Browning.
  
     Electric atmosphere, or Electric aura. See under Aura.
        
  
     Electrical battery. See Battery.
  
     Electrical brush. See under Brush.
  
     Electric cable. See Telegraph cable, under Telegraph.
        
  
     Electric candle. See under Candle.
  
     Electric cat (Zo["o]l.), one of three or more large species
        of African catfish of the genus Malapterurus (esp. M.
        electricus of the Nile). They have a large electrical
        organ and are able to give powerful shocks; -- called also
        sheathfish.
  
     Electric clock. See under Clock, and see
        Electro-chronograph.
  
     Electric current, a current or stream of electricity
        traversing a closed circuit formed of conducting
        substances, or passing by means of conductors from one
        body to another which is in a different electrical state.
        
  
     Electric, or Electrical, eel (Zo["o]l.), a South American
        eel-like fresh-water fish of the genus Gymnotus ({G.
        electricus), from two to five feet in length, capable of
        giving a violent electric shock. See Gymnotus.
  
     Electrical fish (Zo["o]l.), any fish which has an
        electrical organ by means of which it can give an
        electrical shock. The best known kinds are the torpedo,
        the gymnotus, or electrical eel, and the electric cat. See
        Torpedo, and Gymnotus.
  
     Electric fluid, the supposed matter of electricity;
        lightning.
  
     Electrical image (Elec.), a collection of electrical points
        regarded as forming, by an analogy with optical phenomena,
        an image of certain other electrical points, and used in
        the solution of electrical problems. --Sir W. Thomson.
  
     Electrical light, the light produced by a current of
        electricity which in passing through a resisting medium
        heats it to incandescence or burns it. See under Carbon.
        
  
     Electric, or Electrical, machine, an apparatus for
        generating, collecting, or exciting, electricity, as by
        friction.
  
     Electric motor. See Electro-motor, 2.
  
     Electric osmose. (Physics) See under Osmose.
  
     Electric pen, a hand pen for making perforated stencils for
        multiplying writings. It has a puncturing needle driven at
        great speed by a very small magneto-electric engine on the
        penhandle.
  
     Electric railway, a railway in which the machinery for
        moving the cars is driven by an electric current.
  
     Electric ray (Zo["o]l.), the torpedo.
  
     Electric telegraph. See Telegraph.