Adelantadillo :: Adelantadillo (n.) A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

Adelantado :: Adelantado (n.) A governor of a province; a commander.

Capelan :: Capelan (n.) See Capelin.

Celandine :: Celandine (n.) A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort..

Cleavelandite :: Cleavelandite (n.) A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure..

Elan :: Elan (b.) Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

Elance :: Elance (v. t.) To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart.

Elanced :: Elanced (imp. & p. p.) of Elanc.

Elancing :: Elancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elanc.

Eland :: Eland (n.) 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..

Eland :: Eland (n.) The elk or moose.

Elanet :: Elanet (n.) A kite of the genus Elanus.

Felanders :: Felanders (n. pl.) See Filanders.

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

Foreland :: Foreland (n.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.

Foreland :: Foreland (n.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.

Goeland :: Goeland (n.) A white tropical tern (Cygis candida).

Iceland Moss :: Iceland moss () 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..

Iceland Spar :: Iceland spar () 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..

Icelander :: Icelander (n.) A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland..

Icelandic :: Icelandic (a.) Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders..

Icelandic :: Icelandic (n.) The language of the Icelanders. It is one of the Scandinavian group, and is more nearly allied to the Old Norse than any other language now spoken..

Lepidomelane :: Lepidomelane (n.) An iron-potash mica, of a raven-black color, usually found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales. See Mica..

Libelant :: Libelant (n.) One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court.

Melanaemia :: Melanaemia (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.

Melanagogue :: Melanagogue (n.) A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.

Melancholia :: Melancholia (n.) A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas..

Melancholian :: Melancholian (n.) A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.

Melancholic :: Melancholic (a.) Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.

Melancholic :: Melancholic (n.) One affected with a gloomy state of mind.

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