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The state of looming; esp., an unnatural and indistinct appearance of elevation or enlargement of anything, as of land or of a ship, seen by one at sea.

The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul; that quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects.…

Dignity; elevation of manner or style. Dryden.

A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance. Westmin. Rev.

A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods.

A little elevation of earth made by a mole; a molehill. Mortimer.

oblique inclination; -- applied to strata that dip in only one direction from the axis of elevation.

the pulse in which the pulse curve or sphygmogram shows but a single crest, the dicrotic elevation entirely disappearing.

A little mount; a hillock; a small elevation or prominence. [Written also monticule.]

Furnished with monticles or little elevations.

rt piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45º, and even higher; - - so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described. Mortar bed (Mil.), a framework of wood and iron, suitably hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a mortar.…

An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. Dryden. Mound bird. (Zoöl.) Same as Mound mak…

A range, chain, or group of such elevations; as, the White Mountains.

r, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch. Febrille movement (Med.), an elevation of the body temperature; a fever. -- Movement cure. (Med.) See Kinesiatrics. -- Movement of the bowels, an evacuation or stool; a passage or discharge.

Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart. Statues, with winding ivy crowned, belong To nobler poets for a nobler song. Dryden.

The quality or state of being noble; greatness; dignity; magnanimity; elevation of mind, character, or station; nobility; grandeur; stateliness. His purposes are full honesty, nobleness, and integrity. Jer. Taylor.

A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.

ng pushed across country, and not only records distances, like the perambulator, but also elevations.

An aneroid barometer having a second scale that gives the approximate elevation above sea level of the place where the observation is made.

A drawing in correct projection, especially an elevation or a vertical section.