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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,202 words match “ELF”

SELF-INTERESTED a.
Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.
SELF-INVOLUTION n.
Involution in one's self; hence, abstraction of thought; reverie.
SELF-JUSTIFIER n.
One who excuses or justifies himself. J. M. Mason.
SELF-KINDLED a.
Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
SELF-KNOWING a. 2 definitions
Knowing one's self, or one's own character, powers, and limitations.
SELF-KNOWLEDGE n.
Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc.
SELF-LIFE n.
Life for one's self; living solely or chiefly for one's own pleasure or good.
SELF-LOVE n.
The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope.
SELF-LUMINOUS a.
Possessing in itself the property of emitting light. Sir D. Brewster.
SELF-MADE a.
Made by one's self. Self-made man, a man who has risen from poverty or obscurity by means of his own talentss or energies.
SELF-METTLE n.
Inborn mettle or courage; one's own temper. [Obs.] Shak.
SELF-MOTION n.
er, without external impulse; spontaneus or voluntary motion. Matter is not induced with self-motion. Cheyne.
SELF-MOVED a.
Moved by inherent power., without the aid of external impulse.
SELF-MOVING a.
Moving by inherent power, without the aid of external impulse.
SELF-MURDER a.
Suicide.
SELF-MURDERER n.
A suicide.
SELF-NEGLECTING n.
A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.
SELF-ONE a.
Secret. [Obs.] Marston.
SELF-OPINION n.
Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier.
SELF-OPINIONED a.
Having a high opinion of one's self; opinionated; conceited. South.
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