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t or bend of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent. Her arms to the elbows naked. R. of Gloucester.

The base of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest.

A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair. Addison.

Room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope. "My soul hath elbowroom." Shak. Then came a stretch of grass and a little more elbowroom. W. G. Norris.

Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.

With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. "With one arm akimbo." Irving.

The olecranon, or the elbow. Ancon sheep (Zoöl.), a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.

Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. "The olecranon on anconeal process." Flower.

A muscle of the elbow and forearm.

Elbowlike; anconal.

A support for the elbow, at the side of a chair, the end of a sofa, etc.

A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson.

A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.

A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying dowm.

iousness; ease; accommodation. Thus necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow chairs. Cowper. We are rather intent upon the end of God's glory than our own conveniency. Jer. Taylor.

A measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit.

to be introduced to him. R. B. Kimball. Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also funny bone. -- Crazy quilt, a bedquilt mad…

n in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.

The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist. [Obs.]