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Elevator [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who raises, lifts or exalts.

2. In anatomy, a muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the lip or the eye.

3. A surgical instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.

Elevator [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything

2. A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.

3. A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself.

4. A building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.

5. A muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.

6. An instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.

Elevatory [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An instrument used in trepanning, for raising a depressed or fractured part of the skull.

Elevatory [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces.

Elevatory [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Elevator, n. (e).