Thursday, December 30, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Amort:
In the state of the dead; dejected; depressed; spiritless.
"How many fares my Kate? what, sweeting, all amort?"
-Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew.
"How many fares my Kate? what, sweeting, all amort?"
-Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Fleer:
(1) To mock; to gibe; to jest with insolence and contempt.
"Do I, like the female tribe, think it well to fleer and gibe?
-Swift
(2) To leer; to grin with an air of civility.
"How popular and courteous; how they grin and fleer upon every man they meet!
-Burton, On Melancholy
"Do I, like the female tribe, think it well to fleer and gibe?
-Swift
(2) To leer; to grin with an air of civility.
"How popular and courteous; how they grin and fleer upon every man they meet!
-Burton, On Melancholy
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Latitant
Delitescent; concealed; lying hid.
This is evident in snakes and lizards, lattitant many months of the year, which containing a weak heat in a copious humidity, do long subsist without nutrition.
- Browne
This is evident in snakes and lizards, lattitant many months of the year, which containing a weak heat in a copious humidity, do long subsist without nutrition.
- Browne
Friday, December 3, 2010
Gride:
To cut; to make way by cutting. A word elegant but no longer in use.
So sore
The griding sword, with discontinuous wound,
Pass'd through him!
-Milton's Paradise Lost, b. vi.
So sore
The griding sword, with discontinuous wound,
Pass'd through him!
-Milton's Paradise Lost, b. vi.
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