Search |
aka: Urchard |
| Bio | Links | Gallery | Dictionary |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links (1) | |
| Wikipedia | |
| Gallery (1) | ||||
 Thumbnail | ||||
| Dictionary Citations (17) • View in Dictionary | ||||
| Bawdreaminy: Bawdy misbehavior. Used by Dampit, in Thomas Middleton's A TRICK TO CATCH THE OLD ONE (1608) . Like Thomas... | ||||
| Bennet: (1) An old stalk of grass, left in late winter and early spring; eaten then by cattle, or the seeds by bird... | ||||
| Contrist: To make sad. French contrister; Latin com (with intensive force) + tristare, to sadden; tristis, sad. Contr... | ||||
| Curkle: To call as does a quail. An echoic word. Thomas Urquhart in his translation (1693) of Francois Rabelais me... | ||||
| Ethopoetic: Representing character or manners. Greek ethos, character + poietikos; poieein, to make, represent. Hence e... | ||||
| Extispice: Divination -- foretelling events, predicting the future -- using the entrails, usually plucked from a fowl.... | ||||
| Flagon: A large bottle for holding wine or inferior liquors; especially a metal one (carried by pilgrims before sco... | ||||
| Gigant: The early form of giant, 10th into the 17th century. Via Latin gigantem, from Greek gigas, giganto-. This f... | ||||
| Growtnoll: A blockhead; a 'great noddle.' Also groutnoll, grouthead, growthed, and more. Used from the 16th century; T... | ||||
| Ninnybroth: Coffee. A 17th and 18th century term. Ninny, a simpleton, is probably a shortening of an innocent. From it,... | ||||
| Nippitate: A fine ale, or other good liquor; hence, as an adjective, of prime quality. Also with Latin or Italian endi... | ||||
| Nuncheon: A slight refreshment of liquor, originally taken in the afternoon; then it moved ahead and became equivalen... | ||||
| Orison: A prayer. From Old French oreisun, orison (French oraison) ; Latin orationem, whence also oration. Common i... | ||||
| Pillicock: (1) The penis. Pill and cock were used separately in this sense; pill also was figurative for testicle. The... | ||||
| Quiddity: (1) The essence of a thing. Formed with the ending -ity from quid (Latin, what), used also in English, mean... | ||||
| Quisquilious: Made up of rubbish. Also quisquilian, quisquiliary. From Latin quisquiliae, odds and ends; quisque, whateve... | ||||
| Roger: From the name came various other uses. (1) A begging vagabond claiming to be a poor scholar from Oxford or ... | ||||
 |  |  |
Colonial Sense is an advocate for global consumer privacy rights, protection and security.
All material on this website © copyright 2009-24 by Colonial Sense, except where otherwise indicated.
ref:T5-S50-P1196-CPerson-M
All material on this website © copyright 2009-24 by Colonial Sense, except where otherwise indicated.
ref:T5-S50-P1196-CPerson-M