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| a general servant or a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities |
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| 1. Having a human head (upon an animal's body), as the Egyptian sphinx |
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the technical term for the class of actions that go “beyond the call of duty.” Roughly speaking, supererogatory acts are morally good although not (strictly) required.
(Late Lat. supererogatio, payment beyond what is due or asked, from super, beyond, erogare, to pay out, expend, ex, out, rogare, to ask) is the performance of more than is asked for, the action of doing more than duty requires. |
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| The outer rear edge of the wing of a bird, containing the primary feathers. 3. A primary feather of a bird |
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Pumblechook, a corn-chandler and seedsman, is a retail dealer in corn and seed.
CORN-CHANDLER, n. [Chandler, a dealer in candles, is supposed to be from the French chandelier; but what has this word to do with corn and ship, in corn-chandler and ship-chandler? In these words, chandler seems to be a corruption of the Teutonic handler, a trader.] A dealer in corn. |
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| maneuvers designed to distract or mislead, done by giving the impression that a certain maneuver will take place, while in fact another, or even none, will. |
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| A mixture of water and honey that becomes mead when fermented |
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lacking in clearness or sharpness of outline /a woolly TV picture/ b : marked by mental confusion /woolly thinking/
3 : marked by boisterous roughness or lack of order or restraint /where the West is still woolly — Paul Schubert/ —used especially in the phrase wild and woolly |
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| To revert to sin or wrongdoing, especially in religious practice. |
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a term that refers to the supposed descendants of Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bible. It corresponds to Semitic (descendants of Shem) and Hamitic (descendants of Ham). Variations of the term include Japhetite and Japhethitic.
The link between Japheth and the Europeans is reflected in Genesis 10:5, which states that the sons of Japheth moved to the "isles of the Gentiles" — commonly believed to be the Greek isles, while others claim them to be the British Isles. |
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is a sprite of German folklore. Although usually invisible, a kobold can materialise in the form of an animal, fire, a human being, and a mundane object. The most common depictions of kobolds show them as humanlike figures the size of small children.
The name of the element cobalt comes from the creature's name, because medieval miners blamed the sprite for the poisonous and troublesome nature of the typical arsenical ores of this metal (cobaltite and smaltite) which polluted other mined elements. |
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| a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group. |
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1. Historical a soldier expert in drilling, detailed to stand at the head of a unit and serve as a model and guide for others
2. a leader or exemplar, especially a political leader. |
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A person regarded as pompous or stiff.
A conservative, pompous person. |
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1. A microscopic or minute organism, such as an amoeba or paramecium, usually considered to be an animal.
2. Archaic A tiny animal, such as a mosquito. |
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| the action of enclosing or confining in a cloister |
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| unusually advanced or mature in development, esp. mental development: a precocious child. 2. prematurely developed, as the mind, faculties, etc. .. |
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| 1. An outlying or neighboring area.
2. purlieus Outskirts; the environs.
3. A place that one frequents.
-the area around a city — see environs |
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noun Slang: Older Use.
a clerk in a retail store. |
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the clumping of particles.
In linguistics, agglutination is the morphological process of adding affixes to the base of a word. |
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| a term denoting music from the 16th and 17th centuries which was used as background music for feasts, banquets and other outdoor events. |
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| an educated, intellectual woman. Such women are stereotyped as being frumpy and the reference to blue stockings refers to the time when woolen worsted stockings were informal dress, as compared with formal, fashionable black silk stockings. |
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| The condition or quality of having many twists and turns |
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| adj. Of or characteristic of a prophet; oracular |
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evasion of straightforward action or clear-cut statement : equivocation 2
To use evasions or ambiguities |
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often called the fates-in Greek mythology, were the white-robed personifications of destiny
When they were three,[6] the three Moirae were:
* Clotho (English pronunciation: /ˈkloʊθoʊ/, Greek Κλωθώ [klɔːˈtʰɔː] – "spinner") spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle. Her Roman equivalent was Nona, (the 'Ninth'), who was originally a goddess called upon in the ninth month of pregnancy.
* Lachesis (/ˈlækɨsɪs/, Greek Λάχεσις [ˈlakʰesis] – "allotter" or drawer of lots) measured the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rod. Her Roman equivalent was Decima (the 'Tenth').
* Atropos (/ˈætrəpɒs/, Greek Ἄτροπος [ˈatropos] – "inexorable" or "inevitable", literally "unturning",[7] sometimes called Aisa) was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner of each person's death; and when their time was come, she cut their life-thread with "her abhorred shears"[8]. Her Roman equivalent was Morta ('Death'). |
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· n. the easing of hostility or strained relations between countries.
– ORIGIN C20: Fr., ‘loosening, relaxation’. |
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Rare- household linen, esp. table linen
Historically it was the office in a medieval household responsible for the washing and storage of these items. It was headed by a naperer. |
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| To annex (a lesser state) to a greater state as a means of permitting the ruler of the lesser state to retain title and partial authority. |
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| Thriving among or inhabiting rocks |
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1. to be of use, advantage, profit, or assistance (to)
avail oneself of to make use of to one's advantage
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use or advantage (esp in the phrases of no avail, to little avail)
[C13 availen, from vailen, from Old French valoir, from Latin valēre to be strong, prevail]
avail - use to one's advantage; "He availed himself of the available resources"
2. avail - be of use to, be useful to; "It will avail them to dispose of their booty" |
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| a conquering circuit champion. To win the same event in all four games: Olympia, Nemea, Isthmia, Delphi. |
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| is a combat sport introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC and founded as a blend of boxing and wrestling. The term comes from the Ancient Greek παγκράτιον, literally meaning "all powers" from πᾶν (pan) "all" + κράτος (kratos) "strength" or "power |
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a garment composed of a rectangular piece of cloth, thrown over the left shoulder and draped around the body, as worn in ancient Greece.
Himation “mantle” (usually over the chiton) |
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a form of clothing worn by men and women in Ancient Greece, from the Archaic period (c. 750–c. 500 BC) to the Hellenistic period (323–30 BC). There are two forms of chiton, the Doric chiton and the later Ionic chiton. The "Doric" style was simpler and had no "sleeves", being simply pinned, sewn, or buttoned at the shoulder. The "Ionic" style was made of a much wider piece of fabric, and was pinned, sewn, or buttoned all the way from the neck to the wrists and the excess fabric gathered by the zone or girdled at the waist. By the late Archaic, Ionic chitons had become less common, especially for men.
The Doric chiton is a single rectangle of woolen or linen fabric. It can be worn plain or with an overfold called an apotygma which is more common to women. It can be draped and fastened at the shoulder by pins (fibulae) or sewing, or by buttons.[1] The Ionic chiton could also be made from linen or wool and was draped without the fold and held in place from neck to wrist by several small pins. A large belt called a zoster could be worn over the chiton, usually under the breast ("high-girdled") or around the waist ("low-girdled") or a narrower "zone" or girdle could be used. The chiton's length was greater than the height of the wearer, so excessive fabric was pulled above the belt, like a blouse. |
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| an ancient Greek piece of clothing, namely a cloak. The chlamys was typically worn by Greek soldiers from the 5th century BC to the 3rd century BC. Originally it was wrapped around the waist like a loincloth, but by the end of the 5th century BC it was worn over the elbows. The chlamys was made from a rectangle of woollen material about the size of a blanket, typically bordered. It was usually pinned at the right shoulder. It could be worn over another item of clothing, but was often worn as the sole item of clothing by young soldiers and messengers. The chlamys was typically worn by the army and — wrapped around the arm — could be used as a light "shield" in combat. The chlamys continued into the Byzantine period, when it was often much larger, worn sideways-on with a clasp at the shoulder, and nearly reaching the ground at front and back |
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| portion of fabric in a Doric Chiton which is bloused when drawn up and allowed to hang over and below the belt, forming a pocket or baggy fold. |
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| The portion of the fabric folded over the top of the Doric Chiton. |
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a dress which had only a sleeve for the left arm, leaving the right with the shoulder and a part of the breast free,.and was for this reason called eocomis.
it served at the same time both the purposes of a chiton and an himation.
The exomis was usually worn by slaves and working people whence we find Hephaestos, the working deity, frequently represented with this garment in works of art. |
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the traditional garment of Roman women, corresponding to the toga that was worn by men. In ancient Rome, it was considered disgraceful for a woman to wear a toga; wearing the male garment was associated with prostitution.
The stola was a long, pleated dress, worn over a tunic (the tunica intima, the Roman version of a slip). A stola generally had long sleeves (but not always; occasionally it was held up by straps), but the sleeves could either be a part of the stola itself, or part of the tunic. The stola was typically girt with ribbons. It was frequently accompanied by a long shawl-like garment called a palla.
This is the garment worn by the Statue of Liberty in New York. |
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| a traditional ancient Roman mantle worn by women, fastened by brooches. It was similar to the pallium that a man would wear. The shape was rectangular instead of semi-circular as with the traditional toga.The Palla was similar to a shawl that a women of today would wear.The palla would come in many colors some including blues, greens, and yellows. |
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| a garment of note generally worn by members of the Roman military during both the Republic and early Empire. Regarded symbolically as a garment of war by the same tradition which embraced the toga as a garment of peace[1], it was slightly more practical in any event, consisting of a simple rectangular segment of cloth fastened by a leather or perhaps metal clasp and worn on top of the armor. The fabric was made of unwashed wool, saturated with lanolin (which made it water-resistant); it was traditionally dyed bright red. |
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| made from two rectangular pieces of cloth partially sewn together on both sides; the open sections at the top were then folded down in the front and back. The woman pulled this garment over her head and fastened it at her shoulders with two large pins, forming a sleeveless dress; she then tied a belt over or under the folds. |
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