elk

10 definitions found

elk - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hooper \Hoop"er\, n. (Zool.) [So called from its note.]
     The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); --
     called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk. Hoopoe

  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]

  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

  elk \elk\, elke \elke\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
     The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).
     [1913 Webster]

  Elk \Elk\ ([e^]lk), prop. n.
     a member of the fraternal organization named Benevolent and
     Protective Order of Elks, supporting various services to
     their communities.
     [PJC]

elk - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

elk - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Extension Language Kit
  Elk
  
     <language> (Elk) A Scheme interpreter by Oliver Laumann
     <net@cs.tu-berlin.de> and Carsten Bormann
     <cabo@cs.tu-berlin.de> 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, autoloading 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)
  

elk - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  ELK
         Extension Language Kit (Scheme)
         

elk - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Elk, CA
    Zip code(s): 95432
  Elk, WA
    Zip code(s): 99009

elk - 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