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A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly.
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n.
A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica Elaterium).
v. t.
Fig.: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy.
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Elated with great ideas or hopes.
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a.
Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful.
a.
Elated.
v. i.
To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
superl.
Elevated by joy; elate.
n.
The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.
n.
One who, or that which, elates.
v. t.
Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity.
superl.
Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country.
v. t.
To excite to a transport of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate unduly or excessively.
n.
Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.
n.
One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub.
n.
The state of being elated.
n.
An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
n.
Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.
a.
Having the spirits raised by success, or by hope; flushed or exalted with confidence; elated; exultant.
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