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In his series Elisions, a drawing of a bird is carefully labelled all the way from its upper mandible to its hind toe.

From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2011

Of the Elisions that are allow'd in our Versification.

From The Art of English Poetry (1708) by Bysshe, Edward