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Great minds think alike. My brother and I both gave each other a day out for lunch and a movie for Christmas. So we've just decided we get *two* days with lunch and a movie :)


Oh, and HAPPY CHRISTMAS, FOLKS!!

Definitions

antanaclasis: (n) 1. A figure of speech, ‘when the same word is repeated in a different, if not in a contrary signification.
2. A returning to the matter at the end of a long parenthesis

louche: (adj) Oblique, not straightforward. Also, dubious, shifty, disreputable.

perroquet: (n) An older term for a parrot.

zapote/sapota: (n) The tree Achras Sapota and its fruit.

pothery: (adj) 1. Humid, sultry, close; stifling.
2. Of sheep: unsteady, liable to fall (as a result of gid)

gid: (n) 1. Giddiness; spec. a brain-disease of sheep, caused by the hydatid Coenurus cerebralis.
2. A whim, ‘maggot’.

extern: (n) 1. Outward appearance, exterior.
2. An outsider; one who does not belong to or does not reside in an establishment or institution
3. Also a foreigner; formerly, one of collateral descent.
4. A day-pupil in a school; an out-patient in a hospital; a layperson.

verger: (n) 1. A garden or orchard; a pleasure-garden.
2. An official who carries a rod or similar symbol of office before the dignitaries of a cathedral, church, or university.
3. One whose duty it is to take care of the interior of a church, and to act as attendant.
4. A rod carried as a symbol of office;

bibelot: (n) A small curio or article of virtù.

virtù: (n) 1. A love of, or taste for, works of art or curios; a knowledge of, or interest in, the fine arts; the fine arts as a subject of study or interest.
2. an article such as virtuosos are interested in; a curio, antique, or other product of the fine arts.
3. A special branch of this study or interest.
4. The distinctive qualities inherent in a thing or person.

chryselectrum: (n) A variety of beryl, with a tinge of yellow. Also, A yellowish green gem, in composition an aluminate of glucinum. Also known as chrysoberyl. A variety with a bluish opalescence is cymophane or chrysoberyl cat's-eye.

intercolumniation: (n) 1. The space between two adjacent columns or pillars in a building
2. The placing of columns, with reference to the space between them.

atelier: (n) A workshop; an artist's or sculptor's studio.

echinus: (n) 1. The Sea-urchin; a genus of animals (Order Echinoidea, Class Echinodermata), inhabiting a spheroidal shell built up from polygonal plates, and covered with rows of sharp spines.
2. prickly head, cover of the seed or top of any plant.
3. The rough stomach of a ruminant; also, the rough and muscular gizzard of graminivorous and gallinaceous birds
4. The ovolo moulding next below the abacus of the capital of a column.

sphragistes: (n) An Egyptian priest who kept and used the temple seal.

helenium: (n) 1. An early name for elecampane, the European herb Inula helenium, of the family Compositæ.
2. A plant of a large genus of North American annual or perennial herbs so called, belonging to the family Compositæ; a sneezeweed.

elecampane: (n) 1. A perennial composite plant, Horse-heal (Inula Helenium), with very large yellow radiate flowers and bitter aromatic leaves and root; formerly used as a tonic and stimulant.
2. A species of sweetmeat flavoured with a preparation from the root of this plant.

equisetum: (n) A genus of plants called popularly Horsetail or Mare's-tail; the typical genus of the family Equisetaceæ.

loligo: (n) A genus of cephalopods; an individual of this genus, a squid.

plane-tree: (n) Originally: a large, spreading tree, Platanus orientalis, having broad, deeply lobed palmate leaves and bark that scales off in irregular patches, native to south-eastern Europe and western Asia and planted as an ornamental in European parks. Later also: any tree of the genus Platanus (family Platanaceae); esp. the American plane or buttonwood, P. occidentalis, of north-eastern North America, and the London plane, P. × hispanica (or P. × acerifolia). Also: the wood of any of these trees.

bunt: (n) 1. The cavity or bagging part of a fishing-net; also of a napkin or the like when folded or tied so as to form a bag; the funnel or bottom of an eel-trap.
2. The middle part of a sail, formed designedly into a bag or cavity, that the sail may gather more wind. In “handed” or “furled” sails, the bunt is the middle gathering which is tossed up on the centre of the yard.
3. The Puffball (Lycoperdon bovista)
4. A parasitic fungoid, Tilletia caries, which attacks wheat, filling the grain with black fetid powder; also the disease caused by it.

5. A portion of the stem or rachis of corn.
6. An instrument for sifting meal.
7. The tail of a hare or rabbit.
8. A medium quality of fagot.
9. An extra profit or gain; something to the good.
10. A manoeuvre in aerobatics involving half an outside loop followed by a half roll.

rachis: (n) 1. The axis of an inflorescence in which flower-stalks occur at short intervals from each other, as in grasses.
2. The axis of a pinnately compound leaf or frond, corresponding to the midrib of a simple leaf.
3. The vertebral column, or the primitive cord from which it develops.
4. The median part of the odontophore of a mollusc, resembling a series of vertebræ.
5. A cord of protoplasmic matter in the ovary of nematoid worms, round which ova are developed.
6. The stem or shaft of a feather, especially the part bearing the vexillum, as distinguished from the quill.

cond: (v) 1. To conduct.
2. To conduct (a ship): to direct the helmsman how to steer
3. To direct fishing-boats after a shoal of herring or pilchard, as seen from heights overlooking the sea; to balk.

clew: (n) 1. A globular body; a ball (formed by coiling together or conglomeration).
2. A round bunch or cluster of things.
3. A ball formed by winding thread; a ball of thread or yarn.
4. The cocoon spun by a silkworm or the like.
5. A ball of thread, which in various mythological or legendary narratives (esp. that of Theseus in the Cretan Labyrinth) is mentioned as the means of ‘threading’ a way through a labyrinth or maze; hence, in many more or less figurative applications: that which guides through a maze, perplexity, difficulty, intricate investigation, etc.
6. With the literal sense obscured: An indication to follow, a slight direction, a ‘key’. See CLUE, the prevalent spelling.
7. Used in reference to the thread of life, which the Fates are represented as spinning.
8. A thread or cord (in a series).
9. The series of small cords by which a hammock is suspended at the two ends, called respectively the head-clew and foot-clew.
10. A lower corner of a square sail, or the aftmost corner of a fore-and-aft sail, to which are made fast the tacks and sheets by which it is extended and held to the lower yard. {dag}to spread a large (full, small) clew: (of a square sail) to have the two lower corners of the sail wide (or otherwise) apart; hence, to spread large (or small) canvas. from clew to earing: lit. the diagonal of a square sail: fig. from bottom to top, ‘from top to toe’, completely.
11. The expanse of the wings (of a bird).

jigger: (n) 1. A small tackle consisting of a double and a single block and a fall, used for various purposes; esp. one used to hold on the cable when it is heaved into the ship.
2. A small vessel of the smack type furnished with a ‘jigger’ sail: see b; a similar vessel used as a fishing-vessel on the N.E. coast of N. America.

culotte: (n) 1. Knee-breeches
2. A divided skirt.
3. The soft hair or feather on the back of the forelegs of a dog.

phaeton: (n) 1. Usu. with capital initial. A person who or (occas.) thing which resembles or is reminiscent of Phaethon, esp. in being rash, adventurous, impetuous, or destructive; spec. a fast or reckless driver.
2. The planet Jupiter.
3. A type of light four-wheeled open carriage, usually drawn by a pair of horses, and having one or two seats facing forward.

terrine: (n) 1. Now, an earthenware or similar fireproof cooking vessel, esp. one in which a terrine (sense 2) is cooked.
2. In modern use, a kind of pâté cooked in a terrine