2007-09-18 plume You profess to see, whereas you see nothing but a Point! You plume yourself on inferring the existence of a Straight Line; but I can see ...
2007-09-22 abroad But I was troubled and made restless by my wife's absence and could not sleep, for although my eyes were closed, my mind and thoughts were...
strained The porter was so dazzled he could hardly believe that he heard her aright, but he shouldered his basket in hot haste, saying in himself, “O day of...
2007-09-26 heist ... in Fremont, California, burglars disarmed a security system and made off with more than $1.8 million of chips and computer equipment in a...
2007-10-18 purloin The penis of Napoleon was reportedly severed at his autopsy, and purloined: it was some years later sold to a urologist for $40,000. ...
2007-10-19 contumacious Thereupon she calls her winged son Cupid, mischievous enough in his own nature, and rouses and provokes him yet more by her complaints....
fledge The previous two posts by Barry Margolin and Kent M Pitman are really good paradigm. Good as paragon of stupid writings. Full fledged in all aspects....
2007-10-25 viand But man differs from other animals in one very important respect, and that is that he has some desires which are, so to speak, infinite, which...
2007-10-27 declivity The declivity was so small, that I walked near a mile before I got to the shore ... Gullivers Travels, part 1 chapter 1 (Jonathan Swift) ...
2007-10-29 carousing Now my cousin and I were sworn friends, for he ever entreated me with exceeding kindness. He killed for me the fattest sheep and strained ...
fecundity The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his...
diadem Noble patricians, patrons of my right, Defend the justice of my cause with arms; And, countrymen, my loving followers, Plead my successive title with...
stewardship By the time Netscape assumed stewardship, the Open Directory Project had about 100,000 URLs indexed with contributions from about 4500 editors. ...
ineptitude The Economist remarked on the news of the errors that “for someone of Mr Levitt's iconoclasm and ingenuity, technical ineptitude is a much graver...
pith On the subject of the Wooster brain, opinions seem to diverge somewhat. Considering that I am almost constantly occupied in pondering fruity schemes of...
vizier But at the end of the twentieth twelvemonth the elder King yearned for a sight of his younger brother and felt that he must look upon him once more. So...
bonobo But killing was the reason we were in Africa. Dale Peterson and I were exploring the deep origins of human violence, back to the time before our species...
gracile The Bonobo is more gracile (slight in form) than the Common Chimpanzee. Its head is smaller than that of the Common Chimpanzee with less prominent...
etiology Venus enters the poem “sick-thoughted” with love, and hoists Adonis from the saddle of his horse. She then plies him with kisses, and arguments,...
dale “Fondling,” she saith, “since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where...
chattel An explicit aspect of Gor is that men are the rulers and women are for the most part chattel; their interactions often feature what some consider the...
booty The Ancient Greeks had many words to describe slaves, though many need to be placed in proper context to avoid ambiguity. In Homer, Hesiod and Theognis...
bevy And as he continued in this case lo! a postern of the palace, which was carefully kept private, swung open, and out of it is came twenty slave girls...
free-for-all During the Middle Ages, tournaments often contained a mêlée consisting of knights fighting one another on foot or while mounted, either divided...
persona non grata On June 30, after conducting its own investigation of the attack, the USFSA stripped Harding of her 1994 title and banned her for life from ...
cagey Lynch usually keeps his personal life out of the media or limelight and rarely comments on his films. However, he does attend public events and film...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
