See Also: Aerolone(health)

elegant (iou) and Aerolone (health)


elegant (iou)



elegant adjective. L15.
[Old & mod. French elegant or Latin elegant-, elegans rel. to eligere to select: see ELECT verb, -ANT1.]
Of a person: that dresses tastefully. L15.
Characterized by grace of form, style, or movement; refined; graceful, free from awkwardness, coarseness, or clumsiness. E16.
elegant variation iron. the stylistic fault of deliberately avoiding repetition by using different words for the same thing.
I. Murdoch The long loose robes, too elegant to be called dressing-gowns, which she..put on in the evenings. R. Conquest A statesmanlike speech in very elegant French.
Of a person: correct and delicate in taste. Now only in elegant scholar. E17.
b. Refined in manners and habits (formerly also in feeling). E18.
Characterized by refined luxury. L17.
Wilkie Collins He felt languid pulses in elegant bedrooms.
Of interests, activities, etc.: appropriate to people of refinement and cultivated taste. E18.
W. M. Craig A high state of the elegant arts..is indicative of great advancement in civilization.
Ingeniously simple and effective. E18.
W. Meid An elegant solution of this long-standing riddle.
Excellent, first-rate. US. M18.
elegantly adverb E16.

Aerolone (health)


Aerolone is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) legal in the United States and possibly in Other countries. Active ingredient(s): isoproterenol hydrochloride .