Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of ruminating mammals, comprising the European elk and the American moose: synonymous with Alces (which see). See
elk .
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Examples
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Si la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente ya era imitación del peor de los congresos, hoy será peor, una vulgar secretaría del gobierno que baje la cabeza y alce la mano.
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And, personably speaking, they can make their beaux to my alce, as Hillary Allen sang to the opernnine knighters.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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"Well, if any man on earth can make it, bet your _alce_ Scot will."
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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Ef I had one, you-all kin gamble yer _alce_ all bets would be off with them painted dance-hall beer jerkers, an 'it would be out in th' brush fo 'me while th' corks was poppin ', gals cussin', red-eye flowin ', an' chips rattlin '.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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Leaving this place, we entered the next gaming-hall, when our man again bet nineteen dollars alce on the first card.
The Outlet Andy Adams 1897
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Again he won, and we went the length of the street, Runt wagering nineteen dollars alce on the first card for ten consecutive times without losing a bet.
The Outlet Andy Adams 1897
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■ Tcrfaci non intec bona unias, & iura alce* zilisfecuadumfe, neque; incer iura unius»,
Quaestiones disputandae de gratia, ex praelectionibus Martin de Esparza Artieda 1668
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mi : cana : larθiaś : zanl : velχinei : seθra alce
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Hercynian forests, enumerates the _alce_, "in colour and configuration approaching the goat, but surpassing it in size, its head destitute of horns _and its limbs of joints_, whence it can neither lie down to rest, nor rise if by any accident it should fall, but using the trees for a resting-place, the hunters by loosening their roots bring the _alce_ to the ground, so soon as it is tempted to lean on them." [
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
john commented on the word alce
Elk in Spanish.
October 24, 2008