profligacy If my character is flawed by a few minor faults, but is otherwise decent and moral, if you can point out only a few scattered blemishes on an...
2006-02-05 2006-02-05 lanyard It's rather a cultural oddity that most cellphones sold in US don't have lanyard hole, while in Far East, almost everyone...
lull The sensation of talking to the two men, however, is surprisingly similar. Normal conversation is like a game of tennis: you talk and I listen, you listen...
The Return of of the Arabian Nights! [• meet= proper. (archaic)] [• Levee= A reception held, as by royalty, upon arising from bed. (AHD)] [• divan=A...
cataract My fall was stopped by a terrible squash, that sounded louder to my ears than the cataract of Niagara;... Source: Gullivers Travels, Part 2 Chapter 8....
2006-03-10 ditty Meet Prussian Blue. The girls, Lynx and Lamb Gaede — who look barely old enough to play Mario Kart, let alone “awaken their race” — ...
dirndl Their site features a photo gallery, primarily offering snaps of the duo sporting dirndls and relaxing on grassy hillocks, or playing with their infant...
2006-03-12 copasetic “All right, this is the way it's gonna work. We drop everybody off at their houses. Everybody's gonna sit tight until I go make sure ...
2006-03-16 insidious I haven't seen Xah in this newsgroup before, so for those of you who don't know him from the Perl or Python or other newsgroups he ...
belt for holding ammunition. In its original form, it was common issue to soldiers from the 16th to 18th centuries. A somewhat different form came into use in...
2006-05-02 truancy The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) took a cautious stand of discouraging truancy from school, and encouraging ...
2006-05-03 teenybopper He watches dreadful tv shows and movies, howling at the screen with a mixture of delight and loathing at the teenybopper drivel, and in...
He knew us by our countenances to be Englishmen, and jabbering to us in his own language, swore we should be tied back to back and thrown into the sea. ...
Thereupon the Sultan came down forthright from his seat of estate and, forbidding him to buss the carpet, embraced and kissed and seated him to the right of...
2006-06-27 loft That’s as far as you get with the dome kit: a plywood shell. It looks like an enormous accomplishment, but it is really only about one...
2006-07-03 pariah Developing a theory for Genetic Programing has been very difficult and so in the 1990s genetic programming was considered a sort of pariah...
The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and...
The host committee in Beijing also asked Tian to give a plenary address. http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060828fa_fact2 MANIFOLD DESTINY A...
2006-08-25 altercation In 1881, Poincaré, who was then at the University of Caen, had an altercation with a German mathematician in Leipzig named Felix Klein....