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elves
(encz) | elves,elfové Zdeněk Brož |
elves
(encz) | elves,skřítci n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
Elves
(gcide) | Elves \Elves\, n.; pl. of Elf.
[1913 Webster] Elvish \Elv"ish\, a.
1. Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also,
vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish.
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He seemeth elvish by his countenance. --Chaucer.
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2. Mysterious; also, foolish. [Obs.]
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Elves
(gcide) | Elf \Elf\ ([e^]lf), n.; pl. Elves ([e^]lvz). [AS. [ae]lf, ylf;
akin to MHG. alp, G. alp nightmare, incubus, Icel. [=a]lfr
elf, Sw. alf, elfva; cf. Skr. [.r]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.
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Every elf, and fairy sprite,
Hop as light as bird from brier. --Shak.
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2. A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
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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["o]l.), a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of
Southern California and Arizona.
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elves
(wn) | elves
n 1: an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency
perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources;
extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec)
electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km
diameter) in the ionosphere |
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ourselves
(mass) | ourselves
- samým sebe |
themselves
(mass) | themselves
- sebe samým |
yourselves
(mass) | yourselves
- sebe samým |
bookshelves
(encz) | bookshelves,police n: Zdeněk Brožbookshelves,regály n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
elves
(encz) | elves,elfové Zdeněk Broželves,skřítci n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
kill ourselves laughing
(encz) | kill ourselves laughing, |
ourselves
(encz) | ourselves,my sami Zdeněk Brožourselves,sebe Zdeněk Brož |
pelves
(encz) | pelves, |
selves
(encz) | selves,ega n: Zdeněk Brožselves,samy n: pl. Zdeněk Brožselves,vlastní osoby Zdeněk Brož |
set of bookshelves
(encz) | set of bookshelves, n: |
shelves
(encz) | shelves,odkládá v: Zdeněk Brožshelves,odsouvá v: Zdeněk Brožshelves,police pl. Zdeněk Brož |
the lord helps those who help themselves
(encz) | the Lord helps those who help themselves, |
themselves
(encz) | themselves,oni sami Zdeněk Brožthemselves,sami Zdeněk Brožthemselves,se Zdeněk Brožthemselves,sebe Zdeněk Brožthemselves,sebou n: web |
yourselves
(encz) | yourselves,vy sami Zdeněk Brož |
Between ourselves
(gcide) | Between \Be*tween"\, prep. [OE. bytwene, bitweonen, AS.
betwe['o]nan, betwe['o]num; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS.
tw[=a] two, akin to Goth. tweihnai two apiece. See Twain,
and cf. Atween, Betwixt.]
1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is
between Boston and Philadelphia.
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2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to
another; from one to another of two.
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If things should go so between them. --Bacon.
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3. Belonging in common to two; shared by both.
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Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them.
--Locke.
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4. Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving
reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as,
opposition between science and religion.
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An intestine struggle, open or secret, between
authority and liberty. --Hume.
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5. With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute
of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge
between or to choose between courses; to distinguish
between you and me; to mediate between nations.
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6. In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity,
or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.
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Between decks, the space, or in the space, between the
decks of a vessel.
Between ourselves, Between you and me, {Between
themselves}, in confidence; with the understanding that the
matter is not to be communicated to others.
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Syn: Between, Among.
Usage: Between etymologically indicates only two; as, a
quarrel between two men or two nations; to be between
two fires, etc. It is however extended to more than
two in expressing a certain relation.
I . . . hope that between public business,
improving studies, and domestic pleasures,
neither melancholy nor caprice will find any
place for entrance. --Johnson.
[1913 Webster] Among implies a mass or collection of
things or persons, and always supposes more than two;
as, the prize money was equally divided among the
ship's crew.
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Between themselves
(gcide) | Between \Be*tween"\, prep. [OE. bytwene, bitweonen, AS.
betwe['o]nan, betwe['o]num; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS.
tw[=a] two, akin to Goth. tweihnai two apiece. See Twain,
and cf. Atween, Betwixt.]
1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is
between Boston and Philadelphia.
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2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to
another; from one to another of two.
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If things should go so between them. --Bacon.
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3. Belonging in common to two; shared by both.
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Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them.
--Locke.
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4. Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving
reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as,
opposition between science and religion.
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An intestine struggle, open or secret, between
authority and liberty. --Hume.
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5. With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute
of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge
between or to choose between courses; to distinguish
between you and me; to mediate between nations.
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6. In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity,
or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.
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Between decks, the space, or in the space, between the
decks of a vessel.
Between ourselves, Between you and me, {Between
themselves}, in confidence; with the understanding that the
matter is not to be communicated to others.
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Syn: Between, Among.
Usage: Between etymologically indicates only two; as, a
quarrel between two men or two nations; to be between
two fires, etc. It is however extended to more than
two in expressing a certain relation.
I . . . hope that between public business,
improving studies, and domestic pleasures,
neither melancholy nor caprice will find any
place for entrance. --Johnson.
[1913 Webster] Among implies a mass or collection of
things or persons, and always supposes more than two;
as, the prize money was equally divided among the
ship's crew.
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Bookshelves
(gcide) | Bookshelf \Book"shelf`\, n.; pl. Bookshelves.
A shelf to hold books.
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Ourselves
(gcide) | Ourselves \Our*selves"\, pron.; sing. Ourself (?).
An emphasized form of the pronoun of the first person plural;
-- used as a subject, usually with we; also, alone in the
predicate, in the nominative or the objective case.
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We ourselves might distinctly number in words a great
deal further then we usually do. --Locke.
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Safe in ourselves, while on ourselves we stand.
--Dryden.
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Note: The form ourself is used only in the regal or formal
style after we or us, denoting a single person.
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Unless we would denude ourself of all force.
--Clarendon.
[1913 Webster]Myself \My*self"\, pron.; pl. Ourselves.
I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or
person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; --
used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of
a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself.
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Selves
(gcide) | Selves \Selves\, n.,
pl. of Self.
[1913 Webster]Self \Self\, n.; pl. Selves.
1. The individual as the object of his own reflective
consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the
subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own
activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the
possessor of capacities and character; a person as a
distinct individual; a being regarded as having
personality. "Those who liked their real selves."
--Addison.
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A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse
with in the world. --Pope.
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The self, the I, is recognized in every act of
intelligence as the subject to which that act
belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I
that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that
feel, I that will, I that am conscious. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
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2. Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest;
selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.
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3. Personification; embodiment. [Poetic.]
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She was beauty's self. --Thomson.
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Note: Self is united to certain personal pronouns and
pronominal adjectives to express emphasis or
distinction. Thus, for emphasis; I myself will write; I
will examine for myself; thou thyself shalt go; thou
shalt see for thyself; you yourself shall write; you
shall see for yourself; he himself shall write; he
shall examine for himself; she herself shall write; she
shall examine for herself; the child itself shall be
carried; it shall be present itself. It is also used
reflexively; as, I abhor myself; thou enrichest
thyself; he loves himself; she admires herself; it
pleases itself; we walue ourselves; ye hurry
yourselves; they see themselves. Himself, herself,
themselves, are used in the nominative case, as well as
in the objective. "Jesus himself baptized not, but his
disciples." --John iv. 2.
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Note: self is used in the formation of innumerable compounds,
usually of obvious signification, in most of which it
denotes either the agent or the object of the action
expressed by the word with which it is joined, or the
person in behalf of whom it is performed, or the person
or thing to, for, or towards whom or which a quality,
attribute, or feeling expressed by the following word
belongs, is directed, or is exerted, or from which it
proceeds; or it denotes the subject of, or object
affected by, such action, quality, attribute, feeling,
or the like; as, self-abandoning, self-abnegation,
self-abhorring, self-absorbed, self-accusing,
self-adjusting, self-balanced, self-boasting,
self-canceled, self-combating, self-commendation,
self-condemned, self-conflict, self-conquest,
self-constituted, self-consumed, self-contempt,
self-controlled, self-deceiving, self-denying,
self-destroyed, self-disclosure, self-display,
self-dominion, self-doomed, self-elected, self-evolved,
self-exalting, self-excusing, self-exile, self-fed,
self-fulfillment, self-governed, self-harming,
self-helpless, self-humiliation, self-idolized,
self-inflicted, self-improvement, self-instruction,
self-invited, self-judging, self-justification,
self-loathing, self-loving, self-maintenance,
self-mastered, self-nourishment, self-perfect,
self-perpetuation, self-pleasing, self-praising,
self-preserving, self-questioned, self-relying,
self-restraining, self-revelation, self-ruined,
self-satisfaction, self-support, self-sustained,
self-sustaining, self-tormenting, self-troubling,
self-trust, self-tuition, self-upbraiding,
self-valuing, self-worshiping, and many others.
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Shelves
(gcide) | Shelf \Shelf\, n.; pl. Shelves. [OE. shelfe, schelfe, AS.
scylfe; akin to G. schelfe, Icel. skj[=a]lf. In senses 2 & 3,
perhaps a different word (cf. Shelve, v. i.).]
1. (Arch.) A flat tablet or ledge of any material set
horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects
of use or ornament.
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2. A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks,
rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships.
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On the tawny sands and shelves. --Milton.
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On the secret shelves with fury cast. --Dryden.
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3. (Mining) A stratum lying in a very even manner; a flat,
projecting layer of rock.
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4. (Naut.) A piece of timber running the whole length of a
vessel inside the timberheads. --D. Kemp.
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To lay on the shelf, to lay aside as unnecessary or
useless; to dismiss; to discard.
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Themselves
(gcide) | Themselves \Them*selves"\, pron.
The plural of himself, herself, and itself. See Himself,
Herself, Itself.
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Twelvescore
(gcide) | Twelvescore \Twelve"score`\, n. & a.
Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.
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Yourselves
(gcide) | Yourself \Your*self"\, pron.; pl. Yourselves. [Your + self.]
An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the second
person; -- used as a subject commonly with you; as, you
yourself shall see it; also, alone in the predicate, either
in the nominative or objective case; as, you have injured
yourself.
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Of which right now ye han yourselve heard. --Chaucer.
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If yourselves are old, make it your cause. --Shak.
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Why should you be so cruel to yourself ? --Milton.
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The religious movement which you yourself, as well as
I, so faithfully followed from first to last. --J. H.
Newman.
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elves
(wn) | elves
n 1: an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency
perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources;
extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec)
electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km
diameter) in the ionosphere |
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