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#120322 01/17/04 06:32 PM
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In anatomy, the lines along which flat bones in skull
enlarge. In OR, the material used to close a wound,
the act of so closing a wound.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Definition: \Su"ture\, n. [L. sutura, fr. suere, sutum, to sew or
stitch: cf. F. suture. See {Sew} to unite with thread.]
1. The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things
or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a
seam, or that which resembles a seam.

2. (Surg.)
(a) The uniting of the parts of a wound by stitching.
(b) The stitch by which the parts are united.

3. (Anat.) The line of union, or seam, in an immovable
articulation, like those between the bones of the skull;
also, such an articulation itself; synarthrosis. See
{Harmonic suture}, under {Harmonic}.

4. (Bot.)
(a) The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins
in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a
legume.
(b) A line resembling a seam; as, the dorsal suture of a
legume, which really corresponds to a midrib.

5. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The line at which the elytra of a beetle meet and are
sometimes confluent.
(b) A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of
a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve
shell.

{Glover's suture}, {Harmonic suture}, etc. See under
{Glober}, {Harmonic}, etc.

And new meanings in movie scripts, and in plate tectonics.







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The root that Latin suo 'to sew' is from also yields Sanskrit sivyati 'to sew', su:tram 'thread, a Hindu text summarizing Vedic teaching', and Greek humen 'thin skin, membrane, sinew, fiber'.


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And the Kama Sutra will keep you in stitches.


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Sanskrit ka:ma 'want, desire, wish, love' comes from a root *ka:- 'to want, desire' with an added -mo-. Gives us, with a different suffix -ro-, Latin carus 'dear, valued', Gothic hors 'adulterer, whore', English whore (not sure where the 'w' came from).


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And Launcelot and Guinevere Camelot.


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Gothic hors 'adulterer, whore', English whore (not sure where the 'w' came from).

which in street gargon, is is now hoe.

(a friend who taught elementary school in NY, one wrote hoe and whore on the blackboard, (3rd grade class) the kids all called out 'teacher that's a bad word you wrote on the board.' she invited one child to come and erase the bad word. they erased hoe. )


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not sure where the 'w' came from

When is the 16th century. Brick and mortar OED has a section on Wh, mostly devoted to the change from hw and why words with a bare w got the h added. I'll have to tune up my microscope to read the whole thing.


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I always thought it should be spelled 'ho' with two apostrophes, but you always see it spelled hoe. A hoe to me is a gardening tool, although at home we usually called it by its Genoese name: sappa (Tuscan zappa).


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Hoe,hoe. I remember seeing a graffito "Frank Zappa lives"
on the abutment of a bridge over the Cape Cod Canal.


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> 16th century

OED2 gives Whilly the nod:

1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 338 (Qo.) The whores cald him mandrake.

Their previous citations are part of the glorious pattern of variations down the centuries:

1546 J. Heywood Prov. ii. vii. (1867) 71 Hop hoore, pipe theefe. 1595 in Maitl. Club Misc. I. 73 Ane ressavear of huiris and harlottis in her hous.


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