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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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And isn't mandrake known as the "little man"? A slight? Or am I misremembering?
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The roots of the mandrake do look a bit like human legs,
but I don't remember any suggestion that gave it the name.
I'll go look.
From the Internet:
The derivation of the word mandragora and the English name mandrake is
still uncertain. By some, mandrake is said to be a corruption of the
Greek and Latin mandragoras, while another suggestion is that it is
compounded of the Sanscrit words Mandros, sleep, and Agora, an object or
substance, the whole meaning the "Sleep-producing drug." The Persian
names are also suggestive, thus besides merdomgia we find segken,
istereng and ebrewi ssanam. Segken means "dog-dug.", istereng may refer
to the luminosity of the root, and ebrewi ssanam "the face of an idol."
The Mystic Mandrake
by C.J.S. Thompson
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Definition: \Man"drake\, n. [AS. mandragora, L. mandragoras, fr.
Gr. ?: cf. F. mandragore.]
1. (Bot.) A low plant ({Mandragora officinarum}) of the
Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and
supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to
have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts
of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the
Mediterranean region.
And shrieks like mandrakes, torn out of the earth,
That living mortals, hearing them, run mad. --Shak.
Note: The mandrake of Scripture was perhaps the same plant,
but proof is wanting.
2. (Bot.) The May apple ({Podophyllum peltatum}). See {May
apple} under {May}, and {Podophyllum}. [U.S.]
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1595 in Maitl. Club Misc. I. 73 Ane ressavear of huiris and harlottis in her hous.
...that one brought to mind the old crossword favorite "houri," usually defined as "harem resident" or words to that effect. Any connection?
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
houri
SYLLABICATION: hou·ri
PRONUNCIATION: hr, hr
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. hou·ris
1. A voluptuous, alluring woman. 2. One of the beautiful virgins of the Koranic paradise.
ETYMOLOGY: French, from Persian r, from Arabic rya, nymph, houri, from r, pl. of ’awaru, feminine of awr’u, possessing awar, intense whiteness of the sclera contrasting with deep blackness of the iris of the eye. See wr in Appendix II.
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Go and Catch a Falling Star
Go and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devil's foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.
If thou beest born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
Till age snow white hairs on thee,
Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me,
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear,
No where
Lives a woman true, and fair.
If thou find'st one, let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet do not, I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet;
Though she were true, when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
Yet she
Will be
False, ere I come, to two, or three.
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