Usually means: Higher quality fine wood shavings.
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  1. excelsior: Merriam-Webster
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  8. excelsior: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  12. excelsior: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Excelsior (Chicago), Excelsior (Coventry), Excelsior (Longfellow), Excelsior (chess problem), Excelsior (comics), Excelsior (motto), Excelsior (short story), Excelsior (smack), Excelsior (typeface), Excelsior, Excelsior, The Excelsior (Hong Kong), The Excelsior: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Excelsior: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. excelsior: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  17. Excelsior: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Excelsior: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  19. excelsior: FreeDictionary.org
  20. excelsior: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  22. Excelsior: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. Excelsior: Cook's Thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (excelsior)

adjective:  (archaic) Loftier, yet higher, more elevated; ever upward.
adjective:  More surpassing, more excelling.
noun:  (US printing, dated) The size of type between Norse and brilliant, standardized as 3-point.
noun:  (Canada, US) Stuffing material (as for furniture and mattresses) made of slender, curled woodshavings, as a substitute for hair.

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