m (S) An elephant of a quarter or point of the compass. There are eight attached severally to the eight quarters N., N.E. &c., supporting the globe. Hence applied to a large, fine, handsome man; or to one mighty in knowledge: also, jocosely, to a huge, monstrous man, a colossus.
m (S) An elephant of a quarter or point of the compass. There are eight attached severally to the eight quarters N., N.E. &c., supporting the globe. Hence applied to a large, fine, handsome man; or to one mighty in knowledge: also, jocosely, to a huge, monstrous man, a colossus.