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One who works by the day; -- usually applied to a farm laborer, or to a workman who does not work at any particular trade. Goldsmith.

Having, or consisting of, ten syllables.

A dentilabial sound or letter.

Consisting of two syllabas, a dissyllabic foot in poetry. B. Jons

A formi

To form into two syllables. Ogilvie.

To form into two syllables; to dyssyllabify.

A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.

capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.

Having twelve syllables.

A word consisting of twelve syllables.

A rude ancient ax or hatchet, seen in museums.

Shaped like the head of an ax or hatchet, as some leaves, and also certain organs of some shellfish.

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.

developed or executed with care and in minute detail; as, the carefully elaborated theme. Syn. -- detailed, elaborate. [WordNet 1.5]

The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. Elaborative faculty (Metaph.), the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.

One who, or that which, elaborates.

Tending to elaborate.

Capable of being emulated. [R.] Some imitable and emulable good. Abp. Leighton.