I was rather struck by how many times "formication" was used, so I looked it up.
Formication, n. a sensation of the body made by the creeping of ants on the skin"
Whay is there even a word for that in English???
I think this one's close enough for caesure, from Websters New Twentieth-century dictionary:
cae-su'ra, n.; pl.cae-su'ras, cae-su'rae, [L., a cutting, felling, from caedere, to cut.]
1. The break or pause in the line of a verse: in Greek or Latin verse, the caesura falls within the metrical foot; in English verse, it is usually about the middle of the line....
2. a pause showing rythmic division in a molody
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Each man is worth exactly the value of that which he has seriously persued.
--Marcus Auralius
Caer Sylvanus wrote:I'd also like to add the word "grue" from Ch. 4 of WGW. As far as I know, a grue is something that will eat you if you walk around in the dark for too long.
Hahaha. Someone old enough to remember the old text adventures. God those games were funny.
I am pretty sure grue is a noun meaning "gross stuff of a biological, and at one point multicellular origin." For example, a warrior might get lots of grue on himself and his weapon in the course of a particularly bloody battle.
This is just my perception of the words meaning. I am not an English teacher, I just read a lot, and that is how you pick up vocabulary.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heh, like the example, shows some character. I meant the Covenant book the word was in, though.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Roynish, speaking of unorthodox dictionaries, have you ever looked at Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary? If on the off-chance you haven't, it's a good laugh.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sorry, haven't got time to read this entire thread, but thought I would mention this webpage incase it hasn't been brought up before--I checked your lexicon Landwaster and some of the words found on this aren't on your list.
Am enjoying it very much now thanks.. i was wearying a bit of all the unexlpained world building and characters at one point, but things are making more sense now.. good stuff
pellucid
Pronunciation: p&-'lü-s&d
Function: adjective
1 : admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion
2 : reflecting light evenly from all surfaces
3 : easy to understand
--
the one tree, pg 105
Daphin's mien remained pellucid; but Chant's smile hinted at fierceness.
-- www.merriam-webster.com
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all at Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary unless noted
skirling 108 -- 'sk&r(-&)l, 'skir(-&)l
intransitive senses, of a bagpipe : to emit the high shrill tone of the chanter; also : to
give forth music
transitive senses : to play (music) on the bagpipe
cotillion 109 -- kO-'til-y&n, k&-
1 : a ballroom dance for couples that resembles the quadrille
2 : an elaborate dance with frequent changing of partners carried out under the leadership of one couple at formal balls
3 : a formal ball
glauconite 109 -- 'glo-k&-"nIt
a mineral consisting of a dull green earthy iron potassium silicate occurring in greensand
carbuncle 109 -- 'kär-"b&[ng]-k&l
1 a obsolete : any of several red precious stones b : the garnet cut cabochon
2 : a painful local purulent inflammation of the skin and deeper tissues with multiple openings for the discharge of pus and usually necrosis and sloughing of dead tissue
thurible 109 -- 'thur-&-b&l, 'thyur-, 'th&r-
CENSER: a covered incense burner swung on chains in a religious ritual
eldritch 109 -- 'el-drich
WEIRD, EERIE
corybantic 109 -- "kor-E-'ban-tik, "kär-
like or in the spirit of a Corybant; especially : WILD, FRENZIED
Corybant: In Oriental and Greco-Roman mythology, any of the wild, half-demonic beings who were priests, votaries or attendants of Cybele — ancient Phrygian goddess of nature and 'Great Mother of the Gods' — whose rites were celebrated with music and ecstatic dances.
glodes 109 -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
save a lyttel on a launde, a law as it were,
A balw berw bi a bonke the brymme bysyde . . .
Hit hade a hole on the end and on ayther syde,
And overgrowen with gresse in glodes aywhere;
And al was holw inwith, nobot an olde cave’
‘but a little way off on the level there was a kind of low,
A smooth barrow on a bank sloping down to the brook . . .
It had a hole at the end and one to either side,
And grass grew over it all in great clumps;
Inside it was hollow and only an old cave’. (2171—2182)
jacol 109 -- (furry animal?? -- jackal??)
morganite 110 -- 'mor-g&-"nIt
a rose-colored gem variety of beryl
catenulate 110 -- k&-'ten-y&-l&t
shaped like a chain <catenulate colonies of bacteria>
dictionary.com
imbricated 110 -- 'im-br&-"kAt
OVERLAP; especially : to overlap like roof tiles
ophite 110 -- O"phite
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
- A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century
- Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]
- a kind of marble spotted like a serpent. A greenish spotted porphyry,
being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite;
-- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which
give it a mottled appearance.
[1913 Webster]
carillon 110 -- 'kar-&-"län, -l&n; 'kar-E-"än
1 a : a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard
b : an electronic instrument imitating a carillon
2 : a composition for the carillon
viscid 113 - adjective - 'vi-s&d
1 a : having an adhesive quality : STICKY
b : having a glutinous consistency : VISCOUS
2 : covered with a sticky layer
spilth 113 - noun - 'spilth
1 : the act or an instance of spilling
2 a : something spilled b : REFUSE, RUBBISH
puissance 116 - noun - 'pwi-s&n(t)s, 'pyü-&-s&n(t)s, pyü-'i-s&n(t)s
STRENGTH, POWER
lacustrine 117 - adjective - l&-'k&s-tr&n
of, relating to, formed in, living in, or growing in lakes
theurgies 123 - noun - 'thE-(")&r-jE
the art or technique of compelling or persuading a god or beneficent or supernatural power to do or refrain from doing something
jaconet 123 - noun - 'ja-k&-"net
a lightweight cotton cloth used for clothing and bandages
adamantine 126 - adjective - "a-d&-'man-"tEn, -"tIn, -'man-t&n
1 : made of or having the quality of adamant
2 : rigidly firm : UNYIELDING
3 : resembling the diamond in hardness or luster
jerrids 135
The Talisman - by Sir Walter Scott - Chapter 3
The Eastern warrior, raising himself in his stirrups, and shaking aloft his lance, replied, "Hardly, I fear, shall I find one with a crossed shoulder who will exchange with me the cast of the jerrid."
"I will not promise for that," replied the Knight; "though there be in the camp certain Spaniards, who have right good skill in your Eastern game of hurling the javelin."
feoffment 136 - noun - 'fef-m&nt, 'fEf-
the granting of a fee
falchion 154 - noun - 'fol-ch&n
1 : a broad-bladed slightly curved sword of medieval times
2 archaic : SWORD