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Definition of Elvan
1. a. Pertaining to elves; elvish.
2. n. The rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course.
Definition of Elvan
1. a granular rock [n -S]
Medical Definition of Elvan
1.
1. Pertaining to elves; elvish.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Elvan
Literary usage of Elvan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1836)
"In the central part of the Consolidated Mines, another channel of elvan occurs
in Wheal Virgin, running in a direction nearly parallel to the former. ..."
2. Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1839)
"From Sancreed towards Ludgvan we obtain a course of elvan varying ... The same
line of elvan is probably continued in the course we find extending from ..."
3. The Geological Observer by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1851)
"After quitting the elvan at /, in its descent, and entering the slate beneath,
on the south, the lode became poor, and eventually the mine was abandoned ..."
4. The Geologist by Samuel Joseph Mackie (1859)
"there is what has been called by some an elvan-course, and by others a mass of
decidedly ... Porphyritic Dyke or elvan-course, at Watermill Bay, St. Mary's, ..."
5. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1852)
"The elvan does not require to be washed except for very fine qualities of glass.
elvan is also applicable in the manufacture of china w porcelain, ..."
6. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall by Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (1878)
"1. A New Tin Scheme. By Wm. C. Borlase, MA, FSA 2. On the Trelissick elvan, with
a proposed Classification of the Cornish El vans. ..."
7. The Parochial History of Cornwall: Founded on the Manuscript Histories of Mr by DAVIES. GILBERT, Thomas Tonkin, William Hals (1838)
"... traversed here and there by courses of granitic elvan, a rock in every respect
similar to that occurring in the granite. One of these courses may be ..."
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