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Page 44 of 100 < 1 2 ... 42 43 44 45 46 ... 99 100 > Go to page... Topic Options #211756 - 07/15/13 08:57 PM Re: "...it means exactly what I want it to..." said [Re: wofahulicodoc] jenny jenny veteran Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 1554 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi MENSALE- men's ale set on a mensal at the mensal Mensa meeting for drinking by male Mensa members only. Female members were once allowed a small thimbleful but they all turned giddy and misbehaved. Top #211758 - 07/15/13 10:24 PM Re: "...it means exactly what I want it to..." said [Re: jenny jenny] wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 6794 Loc: Worcester, MA MERSAL - 1. pertaining to an antibiotic-resisant bacterial pathogen... 2. a sweet fortified Italian wine, after the third glass Top #211766 - 07/16/13 07:24 AM Don't tell me we're running out of words ! [Re: wofahulicodoc] wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 6794 Loc: Worcester, MA Hey! Didn't we do today's word already, almost?! Like on May 13 or so?! Top #211767 - 07/16/13 07:37 AM Re: Don't tell me we're running out of words ! [Re: wofahulicodoc] Tromboniator old hand Registered: 05/10/10 Posts: 954 Loc: Alaska Originally Posted By: wofahulicodoc Like on May 13 or so?! Close. Or enclose. Top #211768 - 07/16/13 09:05 AM Ah sweet dementia, every day is a new day [Re: Tromboniator] jenny jenny veteran Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 1554 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi sconce PRONUNCIATION: (skons) MEANING: noun: 1. An ornamental bracket for holding candles or lights. 2. The head or skull. 3. Sense or wit. 4. A small fort or defensive earthwork to defend a bridge, castle-gate, etc. ETYMOLOGY: For 1: From Latin abscondere (to conceal). Earliest documented use: 1392. For 2, 3: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1567. For 4: From Dutch schans (entrenchment). Earliest documented use: 1587. ______________________________________ add D SCONCED - a sense of wit once heard best forgotten. Top #211771 - 07/16/13 10:53 AM Re: Ah sweet dementia, every day is a new day [Re: jenny jenny] LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 8436 Loc: Land of the Flat Water SCONCEL A bit of advice once heard, best forgotten. _________________________ ----please, draw me a sheep---- Top #211776 - 07/16/13 05:20 PM I don't give a fig for Sir Isaac [Re: LukeJavan8] wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 6794 Loc: Worcester, MA SCOINCE -- pronounced SOY-ince -- a Cockney's explanation of what goes on at the Royal Society in London Top #211785 - 07/17/13 12:12 PM Wednesday's Word is full of woe [Re: wofahulicodoc] jenny jenny veteran Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 1554 Loc: Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi mortify PRONUNCIATION: (MOR-tuh-fy) MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To humiliate, shame, or embarrass. 2. To discipline (one's body) by self-denial, self-inflicted suffering, etc. verb intr.: 1. To endure self-denial, self-inflicted pain, etc. 2. To become gangrened or necrosed. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin mortificare (to kill). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mer- (to rub away or to harm) that is also the source of morse, premorse, mordant, morbid, mortal, mortgage, nightmare, amaranth, and ambrosia. Earliest documented use: 1382. __________________ R --> O MOOTIFY - to use the Media to establish a public pretrial mindset to get damning evidence declared moot. Top #211786 - 07/17/13 12:22 PM Re: Wednesday's Word is full of woe [Re: jenny jenny] LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 8436 Loc: Land of the Flat Water fortify- who? what? a real word? _________________________ ----please, draw me a sheep---- Top #211794 - 07/17/13 09:04 PM Re: Wednesday's Word is full of woe [Re: jenny jenny] wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 6794 Loc: Worcester, MA MOSTIFY - the superlative form of the comparative MORTIFY Top Page 44 of 100 < 1 2 ... 42 43 44 45 46 ... 99 100 > Go to page... 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