#94983 - 02/08/03 02:56 PM
I met a few words
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Carpal Tunnel
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I found an edu site with a long list of unusual words. I'll put a sampling of them here each day.
aba: garment of camel or goat hair; camel or goat-hair fabric
abditive: remote; secret; hidden
ablepsia: blindness
aboideau: tide gate
abraid: to awaken or rouse
abthane: monastic region of the old Irish church
aby: to make amends; atone; pay a penalty
acatour: provisioner; quartermaster
accentor: songbird
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#94984 - 02/08/03 03:47 PM
Re: I met a few words
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Carpal Tunnel
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These are lovely words, wwh...some of them.
What would the purpose of a tide gate be...the 'aboideau'?
And the songbird, the 'accentor'--that's lovely. It makes me think of the verb 'to record' in one use: to practice a song, as in a songbird recording its song
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#94986 - 02/08/03 04:27 PM
Re: abraid
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Dear WO'N: :Upbraid is to address abrasively.
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#94988 - 02/08/03 05:16 PM
Re: abraid
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Dear WO'N: to "upbraid" is to dress down.
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#94989 - 02/08/03 05:17 PM
Re: meet a few more
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accidie: sloth; physical torpor
accite: to cite; to summon
accosted: in heraldry, two figures placed side by side
accrementition: increase or growth by adding similar material
aceldama: site or scene of violence or bloodshed
acersecomic: one whose hair has never been cut
acinaceous: full of kernels
acock: defiantly
acoria: pathologically great appetite
acre-breadth: old unit of length of 22 yards
acromegaly: glandular disorder causing gigantism of extremities
actinism: action of solar radiation causing chemical change
aculeiform: shaped like a thorn
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#94990 - 02/08/03 05:51 PM
Re: abraid
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From J-u-a-n's paste:
bregdan to snatch, move suddenly -- more at BRAID
I'll tell you one thing. Wheb my mother used to braid my hair, she sure as hell snatched it horribly--nearly pulled it out by the roots. Felt like unbraiding her for braiding me so harshly, but, hey, she was my mom and I loved her.
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#94991 - 02/08/03 05:58 PM
Re: aboideau
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Dear WW: I finally found "aboideau" in forthright's phrontistery. It means "tide gate".
Venice for instance has spent millions for a tide gate to minimize destructive effects of
extra high tides. In some places in France, they now have gates to hold high tide from
going out, to make it generate electricity. Original meaning was "dike", but somehow
different from usual dikes, couldn't find details.
Today we have Watergates, to flush out rascals.
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