Meaning of elephantess | Babel Free

Definitions

A female elephant.

Examples

“I wish⟳ I could dash off a sketch⟳ of her stupendous majesty the great elephantess, with the clumsy little prince royal, the calf elephant, as they appeared when enjoying themselves in their bath; and of his royal highness the great camelopard, as he stood stretching his interminable neck over the railing, impertinently watching them in their recreation.”

“It was now time to bring⟳ new actors upon the stage⟳, that the proverbial influence⟳ of the female sex might be tested upon these wild and untamed leviathans. Among the elephantesses—pardon the word—employed on this occasion was one named Siribeddi, which had earned a reputation for her skill as a decoy, and now did her best to justify⟳ that reputation.”

“Now, it chanced that there dwelt in the same Forest a young Elephantess, who perceived that the Kitten was copping the cash, and had all the other Female Animals so Faded they looked like⟳ a Shirt Waist fresh from a Chinese Laundry.[…]Being a thoughtful Creature, however, the Elephantess did not knock⟳ her rival’s game, but began to study⟳ the Kitten’s system, to see⟳ if there was not a soft spot where she could butt into the money.”

“Elephantesses should be employed to decoy stupid and amorous wild elephants into the trap⟳ (1—4).[…]Similarly, a fifty thousand libations, consisting of sesamum seeds and clarified cow-butter, would stamp⟳ out an epidemic affecting the bipeds only, whereas the ceremony should be repeated at the breaking out of a pestilential disease, or on the occasion of elephantess developing a pair of tusks, and portending evil to the state. The evil consequences of an elephantess, exuding serum from her temple, would be warded off by a Homa of ten thousand libations, whereas an epidemic of miscarriages of the womb, or of deaths of new-born infants in a community, would prove⟳ amenable to a similar Homa, consisting of as many libations (10—13).”

“The elephantess of Udena runs in the sand like⟳ lightning.[…]Elephants wander⟳ in the forest with elephantesses.”

““Behold here the damsels of Vidyádharas, are waiting for you with fans and wreaths of flowers in their hands; and they have⟳ been hailing and inviting you to them, as the young elephantess, entices the big elephant towards her.””

“Let⟳ us decorate⟳ an elephantess, give⟳ a garland in its trunk and, take⟳ her in the garden.[…]Sajjan was made to seat on the same elephantess.”

“Rather, from Bridgman’s account of her early career Stein emerges as an elephantess in the china shop⟳ of literature: “Expending prodigious amounts of energy, Stein thrashed erratically toward innovation.””

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