Saturday, July 24, 2010

Nugacity:

Futility; trifling talk or behavior.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Meeting-house:

A place where dissenters assemble to worship.

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.

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

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

Monday, July 12, 2010

Keen:

To sharpen. An unauthorized word.