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An external parasitic organism.

The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc. That grace that elegance affords. Drayton. The endea…

ess, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure. A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature. Prescott.

In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.

Relating to the Entomophaga. -- n.

An internal parasitic organism.

A group which includes the bony ganoids, as the gar pikes.

The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands. Some verses of my own, Maximin and Almanzor, cry vengean…

Extravagance.

Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign. [Obs.] The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine. Shak.

In an extravagant manner; wildly; excessively; profusely.

The state of being extravagant or in excess; excess; extravagance.

An extravagant flight of sentiment or language.

A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.

A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin Totten.

Fuming. [R.]

A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.

A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.

Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

Like a giant; mighty; gigantic. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.