English Dictionary: Elaphurus davidianus | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Eelfare \Eel"fare`\, n. [Eel + fare a journey or passage.] (Zo[94]l.) A brood of eels. [Prov. Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See {Labor}.] Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. --Waller. Syn: Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought. -- {E*lab"o*rate*ly}, adv. -- {E*lab"o*rate*ness}, n. | |
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Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Elaborated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Elaborating}.] 1. To produce with labor They in full joy elaborate a sigh, --Young. 2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work. The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. --Arbuthnot. | |
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Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Elaborated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Elaborating}.] 1. To produce with labor They in full joy elaborate a sigh, --Young. 2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work. The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. --Arbuthnot. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See {Labor}.] Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. --Waller. Syn: Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought. -- {E*lab"o*rate*ly}, adv. -- {E*lab"o*rate*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, a. [L. elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. See {Labor}.] Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. --Waller. Syn: Labored; complicated; studied; perfected; high-wrought. -- {E*lab"o*rate*ly}, adv. -- {E*lab"o*rate*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Elaborated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Elaborating}.] 1. To produce with labor They in full joy elaborate a sigh, --Young. 2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work. The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. --Arbuthnot. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Elaboration \E*lab`o*ra"tion\, n. [L. elaboratio: cf. F. [82]laboration.] 1. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement. 2. (Physiol.) The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Elaborative \E*lab"o*ra*tive\, a. Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. {Elaborative faculty} (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought. | |
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Elaborative \E*lab"o*ra*tive\, a. Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. {Elaborative faculty} (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought. | |
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Elaborator \E*lab"o*ra`tor\, n. One who, or that which, elaborates. | |
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Laboratory \Lab"o*ra*to*ry\, n.; pl. {Laboratories}. [Shortened fr. elaboratory; cf. OF. elaboratoire, F. laboratoire. See {Elaborate}, {Labor.}] [Formerly written also {elaboratory.}] The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile. | |
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Elaboratory \E*lab"o*ra*to*ry\, a. Tending to elaborate. | |
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Elaboratory \E*lab"o*ra*to*ry\, n. A laboratory. [Obs.] | |
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Laboratory \Lab"o*ra*to*ry\, n.; pl. {Laboratories}. [Shortened fr. elaboratory; cf. OF. elaboratoire, F. laboratoire. See {Elaborate}, {Labor.}] [Formerly written also {elaboratory.}] The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile. | |
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Elaboratory \E*lab"o*ra*to*ry\, a. Tending to elaborate. | |
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Elaboratory \E*lab"o*ra*to*ry\, n. A laboratory. [Obs.] | |
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Elaphure \El"a*phure\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A species of deer ({Elaphurus Davidianus}) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers. | |
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Elaphure \El"a*phure\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A species of deer ({Elaphurus Davidianus}) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers. | |
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Elbowroom \El"bow*room`\, n. Room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope. [bd]My soul hath elbowroom.[b8] --Shak. Then came a stretch of grass and a little more elbowroom. --W. G. Norris. | |
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Elf \Elf\ ([ecr]lf), n.; pl. {Elves} ([ecr]lvz). [AS. [91]lf, ylf; akin to MHG. alp, G. alp nightmare, incubus, Icel. [amac]lfr elf, Sw. alf, elfva; cf. Skr. [rsdot]bhu skillful, artful, rabh to grasp. Cf. {Auf}, {Oaf}.] 1. An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks. Every elf, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier. --Shak. 2. A very diminutive person; a dwarf. {Elf arrow}, a flint arrowhead; -- so called by the English rural folk who often find these objects of prehistoric make in the fields and formerly attributed them to fairies; -- called also {elf bolt}, {elf dart}, and {elf shot}. {Elf child}, a child supposed to be left by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See {Changeling}. {Elf fire}, the ignis fatuus. --Brewer. {Elf owl} (Zo[94]l.), a small owl ({Micrathene Whitneyi}) of Southern California and Arizona. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Elf \Elf\ ([ecr]lf), n.; pl. {Elves} ([ecr]lvz). [AS. [91]lf, ylf; akin to MHG. alp, G. alp nightmare, incubus, Icel. [amac]lfr elf, Sw. alf, elfva; cf. Skr. [rsdot]bhu skillful, artful, rabh to grasp. Cf. {Auf}, {Oaf}.] 1. An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks. Every elf, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier. --Shak. 2. A very diminutive person; a dwarf. {Elf arrow}, a flint arrowhead; -- so called by the English rural folk who often find these objects of prehistoric make in the fields and formerly attributed them to fairies; -- called also {elf bolt}, {elf dart}, and {elf shot}. {Elf child}, a child supposed to be left by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See {Changeling}. {Elf fire}, the ignis fatuus. --Brewer. {Elf owl} (Zo[94]l.), a small owl ({Micrathene Whitneyi}) of Southern California and Arizona. | |
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Ellebore \El"le*bore\, n. Hellebore. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Elleborin \El*leb"o*rin\, n. See {Helleborin}. | |
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Helleborin \Hel*leb"o*rin\ (? [or] ?), n. (Chem.) A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; -- called also {elleborin}. | |
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Elleborin \El*leb"o*rin\, n. See {Helleborin}. | |
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Helleborin \Hel*leb"o*rin\ (? [or] ?), n. (Chem.) A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; -- called also {elleborin}. | |
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Eloper \E*lop"er\, n. One who elopes. | |
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Elver \El"ver\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also {elvene}. | |
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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Elparan oak of Paran, a place on the edge of the wilderness bordering the territory of the Horites (Gen. 14:6). This was the farthest point to which Chedorlaomer's expedition extended. It is identified with the modern desert of et-Tih. (See {PARAN}.) |