August 07
Terms
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- greek calends
- a point or time that does not or will not exist
- incommode
- to inconvenience or discomfort; disturb; trouble
- malefactor
- a person who violates the law; criminal
- intercalary
- inserted or interpolated in the calendar, as an extra day or month
- ides
- the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the other months
- double entendre
- a double meaning
- doppelganger
- a ghostly counterpart of a person; a ghostly double of a living person
- rasorial
- given to scratching the ground for food, as chickens; gallinaceous
- axenic
- raised under sterile conditions; germfree
- breastsummer
- a horizontal beam supporting an exterior wall over an opening, as a shop window
- forbearance
- forbearing conduct or quality; patient endurance; self-control
- menology
- a calendar of the months
- hardscrabble
- barely satisfying a lower standard
- bissextile
- containing or noting the extra day of leap year
- bedswerver
- One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow
- malacia
- softening, or loss of consistency, of an organ or tissue
- perihelion
- the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is nearest to the sun
- transpontine
- across or beyond a bridge
- dentigerous
- having teeth
- mackle
- a blur in printing, as from a double impression
- eyeservice
- work or service done only when the employer is watching
- interrgnum
- any period during which a state has no ruler or only a temporary executive
- welkin
- the sky; the vault of heaven