INELASTIC • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Inelastic

... Colonel and his lady and to Miss Matilda, from whom he got a particularly gracious curtsy, and then began looking about him for acquaintances. He found two or three faces he knew,—many more strangers. There was Silas Peckham,—there was no mistaking him; there was the inelastic amplitude of Mrs. Peckham; few of the Apollinean girls, of course, they not being recognized members of society,—but there is one with the flame in her cheeks and the fire in her eyes, the girl of vigorous tints and emphatic outlines, ...

— Elsie Venner • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... this genus are easily distinguished from those of the next by the peculiar fragile peridium and the inelastic capillitium. ...

— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride