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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.
One who, or that which, elates.
superl.
Elevated by joy; elate.
v. t.
To excite to a transport of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate unduly or excessively.
n.
Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.
imp. & p. p.
of Elate
superl.
Having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country.
a.
Having the spirits raised by success, or by hope; flushed or exalted with confidence; elated; exultant.
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.
a.
Elated.
n.
An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
a.
Feeling or indicating vainglory; elated by vanity; boastful.
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.
a.
Elated with great ideas or hopes.
v. t.
Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity.
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.
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.
v. i.
To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
n.
The state of being elated.
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