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‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. &unr_;, a nettle. ] A group of Cœlenterata, including the Medusæ or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n.; pl. Acalephs Acalephans [ See Acalephæ. ] (Zool.) One of the Acalephæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Acaleph + -oid. ] (Zool.) Belonging to or resembling the Acalephæ or jellyfishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; to seize, comprehend. ] Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_;, &unr_;, a scale. ] (Zool.) Not having scales. -- n. A fish without scales. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A city in Syria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ or }. (Med.) Same as Aden ulcer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + AS ]

. (Bot.) One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ ‖ } [ Gr. 'ana`lhpsis a taking up, or again, recovery, from 'analamba`nein. See Analemma. ] (Med.) (a) Recovery of strength after sickness. (b) A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

a. [ Gr. 'ana`lhptiko`s restorative: cf. F. analeptique. See Analepsis. ] (Med.) Restorative; giving strength after disease. -- n. A restorative drug; a drug that stimulates the central nervous system. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + epileptic. ] (Med.) Good against epilepsy. -- n. A medicine for epilepsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. (Med.) Same as Antepileptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Gr. & L. Pros.) A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs most with milky juice; examples are the milkweeds (genus Asclepias). [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ See Asclepias. ] (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, named from Asclepios or Aesculapius. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties. [ 1913 Webster ]

Asclepias butterfly (Zool.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'asth`r star + &unr_; scale. ] (Paleon.) A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. Hugh Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Belepered ] To infect with leprosy. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; eyelid + -ilis. ] (Med.) Inflammation of the eyelids. -- Bleph`a*rit"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ Origin unknown; cf. Bumble, n. ] 1. The old game of nineholes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Card Playing) Whist played in an unscientific way. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Tenpins) (a) A form of bowling pin slender and nearly straight like a candle. (b) The game played with such pins; -- in form candlepins, used as a singular. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Photom.) luminous intensity; illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, measured in candelas, referring to the light of a standard candle. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. catalepsis, fr. Gr. &unr_; a seizure, fr. &unr_; to seize upon; kata` down + &unr_; to take, seize. ] (Med.) A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. katalhptiko`s. ] Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cella cell + porus, Gr. &unr_;, passage. ] (Zool.) A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Keslop. ] A bag in which rennet is kept. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. chryso`s gold + &unr_; made of ivory, fr. &unr_; ivory, elephant. ] Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The chryselephantine statues of the Greeks were built up with inferior materials, veneered, as it were, with ivory for the flesh, and gold decorated with color for the hair and garments. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cleped i>or p. pr. & vb. n. Cleping. Cf. Ycleped. ] [ AS. clepan, cleopian, clipian, clypian, to cry, call. ] To call, or name. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That other son was cleped Cambalo. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make appeal; to cry out. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on high
Cleping for vengeance of this treachery. Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. from Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; to steal, conceal + &unr_; water. ] A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] See Kleptomania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A kind of small black perch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. elephantia. ] Elephantiasis. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. elefaunt, olifant, OF. olifant, F. éléphant, L. elephantus, elephas, -antis, fr. Gr. 'ele`fas, 'ele`fantos; of unknown origin; perh. fr. Skr. ibha, with the Semitic article al, el, prefixed, or fr. Semitic Aleph hindi Indian bull; or cf. Goth. ulbandus camel, AS. olfend. ] 1. (Zoöl.) A mammal of the order Proboscidia and family Elephantidae, of which two living species, Elephas maximus (formerly Elephas Indicus) and Loxodonta Africana (formerly E. Africanus), and several fossil species, are known. They have five toes, a long proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing. The elephant is classed as a pachyderm. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ivory; the tusk of the elephant. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elephant apple (Bot.), an East Indian fruit with a rough, hard rind, and edible pulp, borne by Feronia elephantum, a large tree related to the orange. --
Elephant bed (Geol.), at Brighton, England, abounding in fossil remains of elephants. Mantell. --
Elephant beetle (Zoöl.), any very large beetle of the genus Goliathus (esp. G. giganteus), of the family Scarabæidæ. They inhabit West Africa. --
Elephant fish (Zoöl.), a chimæroid fish (Callorhynchus antarcticus), with a proboscis-like projection of the snout. --
Elephant paper, paper of large size, 23 × 28 inches. --
Double elephant paper, paper measuring 263/4 × 40 inches. See Note under Paper. --
Elephant seal (Zoöl.), an African jumping shrew (Macroscelides typicus), having a long nose like a proboscis. --
Elephant's ear (Bot.), a name given to certain species of the genus Begonia, which have immense one-sided leaves. --
Elephant's foot (Bot.) (a) A South African plant (Testudinaria Elephantipes), which has a massive rootstock covered with a kind of bark cracked with deep fissures; -- called also tortoise plant. The interior part is barely edible, whence the plant is also called Hottentot's bread. (b) A genus (Elephantopus) of coarse, composite weeds. --
Elephant's tusk (Zoöl.), the tooth shell. See Dentalium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Affected with elephantiasis; characteristic of elephantiasis. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, from 'ele`fas, 'ele`fantos, an elephant. ] (Med.) A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of mammals comrising the elephants.
Syn. -- family Elephantidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. elephantinus of ivory, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. éléphantin. ] Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread. [ 1913 Webster ]

Elephantine epoch (Geol.), the epoch distinguished by the existence of large pachyderms. Mantell. --
Elephantine tortoise (Zoöl.), a huge land tortoise; esp., Testudo elephantina, from islands in the Indian Ocean; and T. elephantopus, from the Galapagos Islands.

{ } a. [ Elephant + -oid. ] (Zoöl.) Resembling an elephant in form or appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an annual of the southern U.S. and Mexico (Proboscidea louisianica) having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak.
Syn. -- common unicorn plant, devil's claw, common devil's claw, proboscis flower, ram's horn, Proboscidea louisianica. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;; 'epi` + &unr_; to take up. ] (Rhet.) A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter. Gibbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. epilepsia, Gr. &unr_; a seizure, the “falling sickness, ” fr. &unr_; to take besides, seize, attack; 'epi` upon, besides + &unr_; to take: cf. F. épilepsie. Cf. Catalepsy. ] (Med.) The “falling sickness, ” so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. epilepticus, Gr. &unr_; : cf. F. épileptique. ] Pertaining to, affected with, or of the nature of, epilepsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One affected with epilepsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A medicine for the cure of epilepsy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Epileptic. [ 1913 Webster ]