Definitions containing lĂ nnrot, elias
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| Vancouver | Vancouver A mountain between Alaska and Canada in the Saint Elias Mountains. — Wiktionary |
| logan | Logan, Mount Logan a mountain peak in the St. Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high) — Princeton's WordNet |
| mount logan | Logan, Mount Logan a mountain peak in the St. Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high) — Princeton's WordNet |
| Ashmolean | Ashmolean Of or pertaining to Elias Ashmole (1617u20131692), celebrated English antiquary, politician, astrologer and alchemist, whose cabinet of curiosities became the basis of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. — Wiktionary |
| Hicksite | Hicksite a member or follower of the "liberal" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827 — Webster Dictionary |
| Paros | Paros one of the Cyclades, lying between Naxos and Siphanto, exports wine, figs, and wool; in a quarry near the summit of Mount St. Elias the famous Parian marble is still cut; the capital is Paroekia (2). — The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
| Elmo's Fire, St. | Elmo's Fire, St. a popular name for the display of electric fire which sometimes plays about the masts of ships, steeples, &c., accompanied at times with a hissing noise; commoner in southern climates, known by other names, e. g. Fire of St. Clara, of St. Elias. — The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
| Stanhope, Lady Hester Lucy | Stanhope, Lady Hester Lucy born at Chevening, Kent, the eldest daughter of the third Earl of Stanhope, and niece of William Pitt; a woman of unusual force of character and attractiveness; from 1803 to 1806 was, as the confidant and housekeeper of her uncle William Pitt, a leader of society; retired with a Government pension after Pitt's death, but impelled by her restless nature, led an unsettled life in Southern Europe, and finally settled in Syria in 1814, making her home in the old convent of Mar Elias, near Mount Lebanon, where, cut off from Western civilisation, for 25 years she exercised a remarkable influence over the rude tribes of the district; assumed the dress of a Mohammedan chief, and something of the religion of Islam, and in the end came to look upon herself as a sort of prophetess; interesting accounts of her strange life and character have been published by her English physician, Dr. Madden, and others (1776-1839). — The Nuttall Encyclopedia |