ELK
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
elk
n 1: large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the
male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
[syn: {elk}, {European elk}, {moose}, {Alces alces}]
2: large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in
the male [syn: {wapiti}, {elk}, {American elk}, {Cervus
elaphus canadensis}]
3: common deer of temperate Europe and Asia [syn: {red deer},
{elk}, {American elk}, {wapiti}, {Cervus elaphus}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Whistling \Whis"tling\,
a. & n. from {Whistle}, v.
[1913 Webster]
{Whistling buoy}. (Naut.) See under {Buoy}.
{Whistling coot} (Zool.), the American black scoter.
{Whistling Dick}. (Zool.)
(a) An Australian shrike thrush ({Colluricincla Selbii}).
(b) The song thrush. [Prov. Eng.]
{Whistling duck}. (Zool.)
(a) The golden-eye.
(b) A tree duck.
{Whistling eagle} (Zool.), a small Australian eagle
({Haliastur sphenurus}); -- called also {whistling hawk},
and {little swamp eagle}.
{Whistling plover}. (Zool.)
(a) The golden plover.
(b) The black-bellied, or gray, plover.
{Whistling snipe} (Zool.), the American woodcock.
{Whistling swan}. (Zool.)
(a) The European whooper swan; -- called also {wild swan},
and {elk}.
(b) An American swan ({Olor columbianus}). See under {Swan}.
{Whistling teal} (Zool.), a tree duck, as {Dendrocygna
awsuree} of India.
{Whistling thrush}. (Zool.)
(a) Any one of several species of singing birds of the genus
{Myiophonus}, native of Asia, Australia, and the East
Indies. They are generally black, glossed with blue, and
have a patch of bright blue on each shoulder. Their note
is a loud and clear whistle.
(b) The song thrush. [Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
elk \elk\ ([e^]lk), n. [Icel. elgr; akin to Sw. elg, AS. eolh,
OHG. elaho, MHG. elch, cf. L. alces; perh. akin to E. eland.]
(Zo["o]l.)
A large deer, of several species. The European elk {Alces
alces} (formerly {Alces machlis} or {Cervus alces}) is
closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or
wapiti ({Cervus Canadensis}) the largest member of the deer
family, has large, spreading antlers and is closely related
to the European stag. See {Moose}, and {Wapiti}.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
{Irish elk} (Paleon.), a large, extinct, Quaternary deer
({Cervus giganteus}) with widely spreading antlers. Its
remains have been found beneath the peat of swamps in
Ireland and England. See Illustration in Appendix; also
Illustration of {Antler}.
{Cape elk} (Zo["o]l.), the eland. elk
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Extension Language Kit
Elk
<language> (Elk) A {Scheme} {interpreter} by Oliver Laumann
<[email protected]> and Carsten Bormann
<[email protected]> of the {Technical University of
Berlin}. Elk was designed to be used as a general extension
language. New {types} and {primitive} procedures can easily
be added. It has {first-class environments}, {dynamic-wind},
{fluid-let}, {macros}, {autoload}ing and a {dump}. It
provides interfaces to {Xlib}, {Xt} and various {widget} sets;
{dynamic loading} of extensions and {object files}; almost all
artificial limitations removed; {generational}/{incremental
garbage collector}; {Unix} {system call} extensions; {Records}
(structures) and {bit strings}.
Version: 2.2 is mostly {R3RS} compatible and runs on {Unix},
{Ultrix}, {VAX}, {Sun-3}, {Sun-4}, {68000}, {i386}, {MIPS}, {IBM
PC RT}, {RS/6000}, {HP700}, {SGI}, {Sony}, {MS-DOS}
({gcc}+{DJGPP} or {go32}).
Germany
(ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/Unix/languages/scheme/elk-2.2.tar.gz).
US (ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/elk-2.2.tar.gz). US
(ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/comp.sources.misc/volume8/elk).
(1994-12-15)
from
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Elk -- U.S. County in Kansas
Population (2000): 3261
Housing Units (2000): 1860
Land area (2000): 647.293474 sq. miles (1676.482330 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.071416 sq. miles (7.954931 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 650.364890 sq. miles (1684.437261 sq. km)
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.425671 N, 96.238982 W
Headwords:
Elk
Elk, KS
Elk County
Elk County, KS
from
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Elk -- U.S. County in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 35112
Housing Units (2000): 18115
Land area (2000): 828.651934 sq. miles (2146.198565 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.578653 sq. miles (9.268669 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 832.230587 sq. miles (2155.467234 sq. km)
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.422346 N, 78.655412 W
Headwords:
Elk
Elk, PA
Elk County
Elk County, PA
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "elk":
Cape elk, Virginia deer, antelope, buck, camel, camelopard,
caribou, deer, deerlet, doe, dromedary, eland, fallow deer, fawn,
gazelle, giraffe, gnu, hart, hartebeest, hind, kaama, moose,
mule deer, musk deer, okapi, red deer, reindeer, roe, roe deer,
roebuck, springbok, stag, wildebeest
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