elusive

adj 1: difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"

2: skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each

more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline [syn: {evasive}]

3: be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind; "his whole

attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle

difference"; "that elusive thing the soul" [syn: {subtle}]

ELSIE

A distributed version of {ELLIS}.

["Using Object-Oriented Mechanisms to Describe Linda",

P. Broadbery et al, in "Linda-Like

Systems and Their Implementati"on, G. Wilson ed, U Edinburgh

TR 91-13, 1991].

(1995-11-16)