"Excelsior" is one of Sam Loyd's most famous chess problems, originally published in London Era in 1861, named after the poem "Excelsior" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Loyd had a friend who was willing to wager that he could always find the piece which delivered the principal mate of a chess problem. Loyd composed this problem as a joke and bet his friend dinner that he could not pick a piece that didn't give mate in the main line (his friend immediately identified the pawn on b2 as being the least likely to deliver mate), and when the problem was published it was with the stipulation that white mates with "the least likely piece or pawn".

Excelsior is a brief poem written and published in 1841 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The famous Sam Lloyd chess problem, Excelsior, was named after this poem.

Excelsior is a poem by Walt Whitman.

A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.

Long, curly, slender strands of wood used as an aggregate component for some particleboards and as a packing material.

thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing

"Excelsior" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the U.K. edition of Argosy magazine on July 1 1948 under the title "The Hazards of Horace Bewstridge", and was later included in the collection Nothing Serious (1951). It is one of Wodehouse's many golf stories, told by the Oldest Member.

Pressed glass pattern of large thumbprints and raised loop surrounding them, that made diamonds at their junctures.

a workhorse vessel that has seen service for many decades

More lofty; still higher; ever upward.

The 1925-1948 models with required application are classic cars.