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   El Libertador
         n 1: Venezuelan statesman who led the revolt of South American
               colonies against Spanish rule; founded Bolivia in 1825
               (1783-1830) [syn: {Bolivar}, {Simon Bolivar}, {El
               Libertador}]
         2: a mountain in the Andes in Argentina (22,047 feet high)

English Dictionary: Elaborateness by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elaborate
adj
  1. marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"
    Synonym(s): elaborate, luxuriant
  2. developed or executed with care and in minute detail; "a detailed plan"; "the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion"- John Buchan; "the carefully elaborated theme"
    Synonym(s): detailed, elaborate, elaborated
v
  1. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
    Synonym(s): elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
    Antonym(s): abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten
  2. produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; "The bee elaborates honey"
  3. make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"
    Synonym(s): complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
  4. work out in detail; "elaborate a plan"
    Synonym(s): elaborate, work out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elaborated
adj
  1. developed or executed with care and in minute detail; "a detailed plan"; "the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion"- John Buchan; "the carefully elaborated theme"
    Synonym(s): detailed, elaborate, elaborated
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elaborately
adv
  1. with elaboration; "it was elaborately spelled out" [syn: elaborately, intricately, in an elaborate way]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elaborateness
n
  1. marked by elaborately complex detail [syn: elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy, involution]
  2. an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated
    Synonym(s): ornateness, elaborateness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elaboration
n
  1. addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail; "a few remarks added in amplification and defense"; "an elaboration of the sketch followed"
    Synonym(s): amplification, elaboration
  2. the result of improving something; "he described a refinement of this technique"
    Synonym(s): refinement, elaboration
  3. a discussion that provides additional information
    Synonym(s): expansion, enlargement, elaboration
  4. marked by elaborately complex detail
    Synonym(s): elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy, involution
  5. developing in intricate and painstaking detail
    Synonym(s): elaboration, working out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elaphure
n
  1. large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds
    Synonym(s): pere david's deer, elaphure, Elaphurus davidianus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Elaphurus
n
  1. a genus of Cervidae
    Synonym(s): Elaphurus, genus Elaphurus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Elaphurus davidianus
n
  1. large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds
    Synonym(s): pere david's deer, elaphure, Elaphurus davidianus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Elbe River
n
  1. a river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea
    Synonym(s): Elbe, Elbe River
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elbow room
n
  1. space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around"
    Synonym(s): room, way, elbow room
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elver
n
  1. young eel; may be sauteed or batter-fried
  2. young eel
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.

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]:
   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.

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Elaborator \E*lab"o*ra`tor\, n.
      One who, or that which, elaborates.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Elaboratory \E*lab"o*ra*to*ry\, a.
      Tending to elaborate.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Elaboratory \E*lab"o*ra*to*ry\, n.
      A laboratory. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Elaboratory \E*lab"o*ra*to*ry\, a.
      Tending to elaborate.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Elaboratory \E*lab"o*ra*to*ry\, n.
      A laboratory. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

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.

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ellebore \El"le*bore\, n.
      Hellebore. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Elleborin \El*leb"o*rin\, n.
      See {Helleborin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Elleborin \El*leb"o*rin\, n.
      See {Helleborin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Eloper \E*lop"er\, n.
      One who elopes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Elver \El"ver\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also
      {elvene}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   El Portal, FL (village, FIPS 20650)
      Location: 25.85480 N, 80.19642 W
      Population (1990): 2457 (1049 housing units)
      Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   El Verano, CA (CDP, FIPS 22510)
      Location: 38.29774 N, 122.48939 W
      Population (1990): 3498 (1432 housing units)
      Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Elberfeld, IN (town, FIPS 20638)
      Location: 38.16120 N, 87.44809 W
      Population (1990): 635 (274 housing units)
      Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 47613

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Elberon, IA (city, FIPS 24375)
      Location: 42.00542 N, 92.31583 W
      Population (1990): 203 (87 housing units)
      Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 52225
   Elberon, VA
      Zip code(s): 23846

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Elbert, CO
      Zip code(s): 80106
   Elbert, TX
      Zip code(s): 76359

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Elbert County, CO (county, FIPS 39)
      Location: 39.28207 N, 104.12846 W
      Population (1990): 9646 (3997 housing units)
      Area: 4793.8 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
   Elbert County, GA (county, FIPS 105)
      Location: 34.11500 N, 82.83977 W
      Population (1990): 18949 (7891 housing units)
      Area: 955.2 sq km (land), 15.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Elberta, AL (town, FIPS 23320)
      Location: 30.41344 N, 87.60079 W
      Population (1990): 458 (205 housing units)
      Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 36530
   Elberta, MI (village, FIPS 25180)
      Location: 44.62142 N, 86.22971 W
      Population (1990): 478 (233 housing units)
      Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Elberton, GA (city, FIPS 26616)
      Location: 34.10552 N, 82.86404 W
      Population (1990): 5682 (2602 housing units)
      Area: 11.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 30635

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Elbridge, NY (village, FIPS 23789)
      Location: 43.03420 N, 76.44362 W
      Population (1990): 1219 (461 housing units)
      Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 13060

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Elburn, IL (village, FIPS 22931)
      Location: 41.89020 N, 88.47175 W
      Population (1990): 1275 (474 housing units)
      Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 60119

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Elfers, FL (CDP, FIPS 20275)
      Location: 28.21339 N, 82.72266 W
      Population (1990): 12356 (6649 housing units)
      Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Elfrida, AZ
      Zip code(s): 85610

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ellport, PA (borough, FIPS 23280)
      Location: 40.86137 N, 80.26229 W
      Population (1990): 1243 (487 housing units)
      Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 16117

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Elverson, PA (borough, FIPS 23440)
      Location: 40.15779 N, 75.83150 W
      Population (1990): 470 (180 housing units)
      Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 19520

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Elverta, CA
      Zip code(s): 95626

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}.)
     
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