Friday, July 30, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Recreant
Cowardly; meanspirited; subdued; crying out for mercy; recanting out of fear.
"Thou Must, as a foreign recreant, be led With manacles along our street."
-Shakespeare
"Thou Must, as a foreign recreant, be led With manacles along our street."
-Shakespeare
Monday, July 26, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Lag:
(1) The lowest class; the rump; the fag end.
"The rest of your foes, O gods, the senators of Athens, together with the common lag of people, what is amiss is in them, make suitable for destruction."
-Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.
"The rest of your foes, O gods, the senators of Athens, together with the common lag of people, what is amiss is in them, make suitable for destruction."
-Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Procerity:
Talness; height of stature.
"We shall make attempts to lengthen out the human figure, and restore it to its ancient procerity."
-Addison
"We shall make attempts to lengthen out the human figure, and restore it to its ancient procerity."
-Addison
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Doughbaked:
Unfinished; not hardened to perfection; soft.
For when, through tasteless flat humility,
In doughbak'd men some harmlessness we see,
'Tis but his phlegm that's virtuous, and not he.
-Donne
For when, through tasteless flat humility,
In doughbak'd men some harmlessness we see,
'Tis but his phlegm that's virtuous, and not he.
-Donne
Monday, July 12, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Pernicious:
(2) Quick. An use which I have found only in Milton, and which, as it produces ambiguity, ought not to be imitated.
Part incentive reed Provide,
pernicious with one touch of fire.
-Milton
Part incentive reed Provide,
pernicious with one touch of fire.
-Milton
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
Micher:
A lazy loiterer, who skulks about in corners and by-places, and keeps out of sight; a hedge-creeper.
-Hamner.
Mich or Mick is still retained in the cant language for an indolent, lazy fellow.
-Hamner.
Mich or Mick is still retained in the cant language for an indolent, lazy fellow.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
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