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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy. -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Table Talk, Line 588
Elegant Frankfurter - A haute dog
elegant: [from mathematical usage] adj. Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design.
Higher praise than `clever', `winning', or even {cuspy}. The French aviator, a...
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.
The most famous English exam...
Elektra. Over there. It's a flying dwarf. -- Strange doings in ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN
Elementary my dear Riker...sir. -- Data, "Lonely Among Us", stardate 41249.3
elephantine: adj. Used of programs or systems that are both conspicuous {hog}s (owing perhaps to poor design founded on {brute force and ignorance}) and exceedingly {hairy} in source form.
Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
Elephant's Dong" by Miles Long -- Booktip of the month
Elephants endors'd with towers.
-- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Regained, Book iii, Line 329...

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