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Elaps [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral.

Elapse [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. elaps'. [Latin elapsus, from elabor, labor, to slide.]

2. To slide away; to slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; applied chiefly or wholly to time. [Instead of elapse the noun, we use lapse.]

Elapse [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time.

Elapsed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Slid or passed away, as time.

Elapsed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Elapse

Elapsing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Sliding away; gliding or passing away silently, as time.

Elapsing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Elapse

Elapsion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of elapsing.