Crossword clues for oliphant
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
obsolete form of elephant, c.1200; also used in Middle English with sense "ivory horn."
Wiktionary
alt. (context archaic and historical English) An elephant. n. (context archaic and historical English) An elephant.
Wikipedia
Oliphant is a Finnish band playing medieval music.
Olifant, Oliphant, Olyphant and similar variations may refer to:
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the oliphant is a type of monster.
Oliphant or Olyphant is a surname that was established in England and Scotland by a family of Norman origin. The early forms Olifard and Oliphard (likely "olif" conjoined with the intensive suffix "-ard") are believed to allude to an olive branch. Notable people with the surname include:
- Charles Oliphant (1666–1719), Scottish physician and politician
- David Olyphant (1789–1851), American trader in the Far East
- Evan Oliphant (b. 1982), Scottish cyclist
- Greg Oliphant (b. 1950), Australian rugby league footballer and coach
- James Oliphant (1796-1881), Chairman of H.E.I.C. and Equerry to Maharajah Duleep Singh
- John Oliphant (d. 1905), Scottish portrait painter
- Laurence Oliphant (author) (1829–1888), British author and mystic
- Sir Laurence Oliphant (British Army officer) (1846-1914), 9th of Condie and 31st Chief of Clan Oliphant
- Laurence Oliphant (Jacobite) (1691–1767), Scottish Jacobite army officer
- Laurence Oliphant (b.1791), Scottish politician
- Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), Scottish novelist and historical writer
- Sir Mark Oliphant (1901–2000), Australian physicist and Governor of South Australia
- Mike Oliphant (b. 1963), former NFL running back
- Pat Oliphant (b. 1935), Australian American editorial/political cartoonist
- Peter Oliphant, American actor and video game designer
- Rob Oliphant (b. 1956), Canadian politician
- Robert Morrison Olyphant (1824–1918), President of the Delaware and Hudson Railway
- Timothy Olyphant (b. 1968), American actor
- Thomas Oliphant, American journalist
- Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), musician and artist
- William Oliphant, Lord of Aberdalgie (d.1329), Scottish magnate during the Scottish Wars of Independence
- Sir William Oliphant (died aft. 1313) Governor of Stirling Castle, Scottish Wars of Independence
Usage examples of "oliphant".
Oliphant theorizes that the soucouyant lore was created in an attempt to explain infant deaths that would have seemed mysterious in more primitive times.
Did he live through every let the twins get away thing and hunt down Hal Oliphant just to with this?
They also furnished escorts for the convoys which supplied Plumer on the Oliphant River, and they carried out some spirited operations themselves in the neighbourhood of Pietersburg.
He drove the limousine to the church the day she married Hal Oliphant, the unfaithful, drunken unfavorite son of some big family in the East.
Laurence Oliphant, on lavish creamlaid cardstock, Author and Journalist.
A recent innovation from New South Wales, Oliphant knew, much praised in the Crimea and precisely the thing for concealing weapons of the sort that these two most certainly concealed.
Then Mallory doffed his coat, clenched his jaw, and stared at the blue floral wallpaper while Oliphant deftly pierced the torn skin and sutured it.
To mention only a few: The Atheist, The Shakers, The Infidel, The Millerites, The Agnostic, The Mormons, The Baptist, The Laurence Oliphant The Methodist, Harrisites, The Catholic, and the other The Grand Lama's people, 115 Christian sects, the The Monarchists, Presbyterian excepted, The Imperialists, The 72 Mohammedan sects, The Democrats, The Buddhist, The Republicans (but not The Blavatsky-Buddhist, the Mugwumps), The Nationalist, The Mind-Curists, The Confucian, The Faith-Curists, The Spiritualist, The Mental Scientists, The 2,000 East Indian The Allopaths, sects, The Homeopaths, The Peculiar People, The Electropaths, The Swedenborgians, The--but there's no end to the list.
The following morning, Oliphant slept in, then kept to his bed, Bligh supplying him with files from the study, strong tea, and anchovy toast.
Oliphant's house (Aunt Polly's sister) Aunt Flo Oliphant came out on the porch and waved her handkerchief at the merry party.
Captain Swing's influence might still be felt occasionally in rural Ireland, or even in Scotland, but Oliphant attributed this to the Rads' agricultural policies, which tended to lag behind their brilliance in industrial management.
At noon, Oliphant presented his card to the concierge, who conveyed it via pneumatic tube to Monsieur Arslau's establishment.
One of the visitors, a laundress of the Temple called Mrs Oliphant, had done her best, poohpoohing such melancholy talk, and attributing the low spirits in which the old women found themselves to the bleakness of the February weather, and promising them that they would find a new lease of life with the advent of spring.
Helen America chose a slice of shepherd's pie, a helping of toad-in-the-hole, and fried chips, Oliphant providing the requisite coinage.
Helen America chose a slice of shepherd's pie, a helping of toadinthehole, and fried chips, Oliphant providing the requisite coinage.