Crossword clues for excelsior
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excelsior \Ex*cel"si*or\, a. [L., compar. of excelsus elevated, lofty, p. p. of excellere. See Excel, v. t.] More lofty; still higher; ever upward.
Excelsior \Ex*cel"si*or\, n. A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Latin excelsior "higher," comparative of excelsus (adj.) "high, elevated, lofty," past participle of excellere "rise, be eminent" (see excel). Taken 1778 as motto of New York State, where it apparently was mistaken for an adverb. Popularized 1841 as title of a poem by Longfellow. As a trade name for "thin shavings of soft wood used for stuffing cushions, etc.," first recorded 1868, American English.
Wiktionary
a. (context archaic English) Loftier, yet higher; ever upward n. 1 (context US printing dated) The size of type between Norse and brilliant, standardized as 3-point. 2 Stuffing material (as for furniture and mattresses) made of slender, curled wood shavings, as a substitute for hair.
WordNet
n. thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing [syn: wood shavings]
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Wikipedia
Excelsior, a Latin word often translated as "ever upward" or "still higher", may refer to:
"Excelsior" is one of Sam Loyd's most famous chess problems, originally published in London Era in 1861, named after the poem " Excelsior" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Excélsior is a daily newspaper in Mexico City. It is the second oldest paper in the city after El Universal, printing its first issue on March 18, 1917.
"Excelsior" is a short poem written in 1841 by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
"Excelsior" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the U.K. edition of Argosy magazine on July 1, 1948 under the title "The Hazards of Horace Bewstridge", and was later included in the collection Nothing Serious (1951). It is one of Wodehouse's many golf stories, told by the Oldest Member.
The story displays Wodehouse's excellent use of language and humor. It begins with the Oldest Member discussing people who lack the proper golfing spirit ("I have known Bream to concede a hole for the almost frivolous reason that he had sliced his ball into a hornet's nest and was unwilling to play it from where it lay"). He mentions a fine example of a devoted golfer, Horace Bewstridge, and proceeds to tell the man's story.
Excelsior (1895-1897) is the title of a collection of poetry by the Romanian poet Alexandru Macedonski. It contains the following poems:
- Valţul rozelor
- Excelsior
- Stepa
- Cu morţii
- Vis de mai
- Psalmi moderni
- Noaptea de noiembrie
- Sub stele
- Acşam dovalar
- În răstrişte
- Plecare
- La bestii
- Naiada
- Apolog
- Noaptea de mai
- Castele-n Spania
- Orchestrare
- Noaptea de martie
- Zori roze (Imitaţie)
- Prietenie apusă
- Vaporul morţii
- Primăvara
- Bucolica undă
- Pe balta clară
- Noaptea de februarie
- Niponul
- În noapte
- Libelule
- În atelier
- Hora
- Noaptea de ianuarie
- Homo sum
- Fântâna
- Moise
- Bătrâna stâncă
- Epigraf
- Ospăţul lui Pentaur
- Neron
- Zi de iarnă
- Avânt
- Vânt de toamnă
- Tu ce eşti a naşte
- Se duce...
- Stuful de liliac
- În arcane de pădure
- Pădurea
- Între frunze
- Epigraf
- Faunul
- Noaptea neagră
- Când aripi...
- Ură
- Noaptea de iulie
- Răsmeliţa morţilor
- Noaptea albă
- Visul fatal
- Cântecul şi poetul
- Către viitorime
- Gândului
Category:Alexandru Macedonski Category:Romanian poetry collections
Excelsior is a former restaurant located in Hotel de l'Europe, Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is a fine dining restaurant that is awarded one Michelin stars for the period 1957-1970 and for the period 1987-1992.
Restaurant Excelsior closed in 2010 and was replaced by "Restaurant Bord'Eau" in February 2011.
Excelsior is a slab serif typeface designed by Chauncey H. Griffith and presented by Mergenthaler Linotype in 1931. It is one of five typefaces in Griffith's 'Legibility Group' which contains typefaces especially suited to newsprint.
Before designing this font, Griffith consulted the results of a survey of optometrists regarding optimal legibility. The design has similarities to Clarendon and Ionic slab-serif designs of the 19th century, most visibly in its regular weight. Ionic designs such as Excelsior were an influence on Times New Roman, particularly in its bold styles.
Not particularly condensed, unlike many other newspaper typefaces, Linotype has described its usage as most common "in Europe, where newspaper columns are wide."
Related typefaces Opticon and Paragon were released in 1935 as slightly heavier and slightly lighter versions of Excelsior designed for newspapers that deliberately underink to favor halftones, or overink to favor text and headlines. Ionic No. 5 is another version in the same group.
Usage examples of "excelsior".
Cat followed Bluey downstairs to the Excelsior dining room, which also carried hints of former glory.
The Double Excelsior, but with black victorious in the end: two lonely pawns, one white and one black, pathetic in their powerlessness, beginning on their home squares and matching each other, move for move, until, on the fifth turn, each reaches the far end of the board and becomes a knight, the final move checkmating the white king.
Civic Plaza, Hotel Scheherazade, loto Hotel, Central Gravrail Station, or Excelsior Square?
Christyan Unity Five-Cint See-gar is made out iv th' finest grades iv excelsior iver projooced in Kansas!
Emergency Council, held at the Presidio of Todos Santos, that the foreign barque Excelsior had mutinied, discharged her captain and passengers, and escaped from the waters of the bay, it was, on examination, found and decreed that the said barque was a vessel primarily owned by a foreign Power, then and there confessed and admitted to be at war with Mexico and equipped to invade one of her northern provinces.
I then send the Excelsior, that does know the channel, to Todos Santos, to appear before the Presidio, take the enemy in flank, and cooperate with us.
Excelsior is expected off the Presidio to-morrow morning to aid the insurgents.
Brimmer and Miss Chubb can take one of them with half the escort, and proceed at once to the Excelsior.
I could apologize or make excuses or nothing the lady had thrown her arms around me and kissed me and started thanking everyone from God to the Madonna to half a dozen local saints, although it was me and me alone what removed the ghosts, and then she paid me my million lira and kissed me again, and ran off to tell her neighbors the good news while I moseyed over to the Via Veneto and rented a suite at the Excelsior, which was the poshest hotel in Rome back in them days.
And it is further decreed and declared that one Capitano Bunker, formerly of the Excelsior, but now a maniac and lunatic-- being irresponsible and visited of God, shall be exempted from the ordinances of this decree until his reason shall be restored.
Early anatomists postulated a diffuse net of neurons and fibres, a sort of neural excelsior, providing unspecified functions for the surrounding cranial nerve nuclei.
A little silver tobacco jar carried the outline of an oil rig on the lid and inside the inscription: To Stuart Campbell from the Management of the Excelsior Oil Company of Turner Valley on his leaving to form his own company - April 8, 1912.
Heaps of trash were everywhere, string and paper and excelsior packing material, along with numerous crumpled cardboard boxes.
She turns then and retraces her steps, and when she comes to the Excelsior she ducks into the alleyway beside it and hurries along, forcing herself not to run.
Note: Story is set two years before Captain Hikaru Sulu takes command of the Excelsior in 2290.