ELK
\ˈɛlk], \ˈɛlk], \ˈɛ_l_k]\
Definitions of ELK
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- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
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- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
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large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called elk in Europe and moose in North America
By Princeton University
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large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called elk in Europe and moose in North America
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A very large deer of North America and northern Europe; the moose-deer: the largest member of the deer family.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Alces Malchis or Cervus Alces, the largest existing species of the Cervidae or deer family. It attains the height of 7 feet at the shoulders, and its antlers, when fully formed, weigh 50 to 60 lbs. It is found in Europe and Asia, but chiefly in North America, where it is called the MOOSE or MOOSE-DEER.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Cervus alces-e. Bark, Magnolia macro phylla-e. Tree, Andromeda arborea-e. Wood, Andromeda arborea, Magnolia macrophylla.
By Robley Dunglison
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- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.