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Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart. [R.] While thy unerring hand elanced . . . a dart. Prior.

A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.

A kite of the genus Elanus.

A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

A governor of a province; a commander. Prescott.

A French gambling game somewhat like poker.

In French games, a double pair royal.

In French games, a pair royal composed of 2 cards in the hand and the card turned.

See Capelin.

s acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.

Land or region where one was cradled; hence, land of origin.

See Filanders.

A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.

A white tropical tern (Cygis candida).

A kind of lichen (Cetraria Icelandica) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent.

A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite.

A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.

Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders.