Obs. [a. L. alce (also alces).] An elk.
1541. Elyot, Image Gov. (1556), 81. Alces, brought for the nonce out of the great wooddes of Germany.
1617. Horn & Robotham, Gate Lang. Unl., xvii. § 193. The alces hide cannot be pierced with cutting.
1678. Phillips, Alce, a wild Beast … hath no joynts in his legs, and therefore doth never lye down but lean to Trees … This beast in English we answerably call an Elk.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., The Alce or Elk.
