Alces (alsez)

[L., elk, Gr. άλκη, elk, = E. elk1, q. v.] A genus of ruminant mammals of the deer family, Cervid a. They are of immense stature, and have a heavy, ungainly body, very high at the withers; a short, thick neck, with a beard at the throat; a tumid muzzle; broadly palmate horns in the male; long ears; coarse, brittle hair; and no metatarsal gland, but a small tarsal gland covered with reversed hair. The genus includes two species, or one species of two varieties, namely, the animal of northern Europe called the elk IMG:content-0471.png:[blocks in formation] alcohol Here be the tavern-beakers, and here peep out the fine alchemy knaves, looking like most of our gallants, that seem what they are not. Middle ton, Your Five Gallants, ii. 3. Formerly also spelled alchymy .