By Definition.......

[mossrose]

OK, here's how this works. Give us a word. If someone knows the definition, they give it, and then a new word. Cheat if ya have to!

To start, does anyone know this one?


"vexillologist"

[mossrose]

What. Nobody's got a dictionary?? :glare:

[mossrose]

Hello....ello......llo....lo....o......?

[Solly]

student of flags
http://www.regiments.org/special/ref/flags.htm

etiolation

[mossrose]

Becoming pale or colourless through lack of light. Some market veggies are kept in the dark on purpose to make them white.

hyperosmia

[beeblebrox]

hyperosmia

sensitivity to odors


kreng

[mossrose]

:eww: The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed.

sinople

[luv1another]

Sinople: old French term for vert, and now always used by French heralds.

Sinople
Sin´o`ple
n. 1. (Min.) Ferruginous quartz, of a blood_red or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge of yellow.
2. (Her.) The tincture vert; green


Dzungaria

[DunnySaze]

Today @ 04:40 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=274227#post274227)
luv1another:

Sinople: old French term for vert, and now always used by French heralds.

Sinople
Sin´o`ple
n. 1. (Min.) Ferruginous quartz, of a blood_red or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge of yellow.
2. (Her.) The tincture vert; green


Dzungaria

Semi-autonomous region in north-west China of primarily Mongolian ethnicity.

'Esssse'

[luv1another]

Esssse, pronounce eshih, is an old and extremely rare plural form of the word ash, so it means ashes. With Its rarity, weird spelling (what other word had four consecutive letters the same?) and unlikely pronunciation. You can find it in Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary or in her likely original source, The Oxford English Dictionary

also it seems to be a guitar chord of sorts :Shrugs:

Fiduciary

[DunnySaze]

11-08-2003 @ 04:25 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=275355#post275355)
luv1another:

Esssse, pronounce eshih, is an old and extremely rare plural form of the word ash, so it means ashes. With Its rarity, weird spelling (what other word had four consecutive letters the same?) and unlikely pronunciation. You can find it in Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary or in her likely original source, The Oxford English Dictionary

also it seems to be a guitar chord of sorts :Shrugs:

Fiduciary

'Of or relating to a holding of something in trust for another.'

Set

[Bob Jenkins]

Set brother and murderer of Osiris


wigan

[DunnySaze]

Today @ 07:23 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=277666#post277666)
Bob Jenkins:

Set brother and murderer of Osiris


wigan

An industrial town in England between Manchester and Liverpool, or a cloth used as a stiffener.

syzygy

[luv1another]

one of two opposite points in the orbit of a celestial body when it is in conjunction with or opposition to the sun 2. the union of parts of organisisms. 3. A dipody or group of two feet in one verse.

Pyxis

[DunnySaze]

Yesterday @ 02:19 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=279045#post279045)
luv1another:

Pyxis

A constellation (the compass box) in the southern hemisphere. Right Ascention = 8.93 hours, Declination = -31.03 degrees.

Also a small box used for medicines by the Greeks, and a type of seed pod.

(S)-3-(1-Methyl-2-pyrrolidinyl)pyridine

[beeblebrox]

Nicotine (or any of the synonyms below)

Emo - nik
ENT 3,424
Nicocide
Pyridine, 3 - (tetrahydro - 1 - methylpyrrol - 2 - yl)
Black leaf
RCRA waste number P075
Pyridine, 3 - (1 - methyl - 2 - pyrrolidinyl) - , (S) - (9CI)
Pyridine, 3 - (1 - methyl - 2 - pyrrolidinyl) -
Nikotyna (Polish)
Nicotine alkaloid
Nicotine (ACGIH:OSHA)
(S) - Nicotine
L - Nicotine
( - ) - Nicotine
Nicotina (Italian)
Nico - fume
Nikotin (German)
Niagara P.A. dust
Nico - dust
Pyrrolidine, 1 - methyl - 2 - (3 - pyridal) -
beta - Pyridyl - alpha - N - methylpyrrolidine
XL all insecticide
1 - Methyl - 2 - (3 - pyridyl) pyrrolidine
3 - (N - Methylpyrrolidino) pyridine
L - 3 - (1 - Methyl - 2 - pyrrolidyl) pyridine
Mach - Nic
Flux MAAG
Fumetobac
Destruxol orchid spray
Tendust
Tetrahydronicotyrine, dl -
Ortho N - 4 and N - 5 dusts
Ortho N - 5 dust
Ortho N - 4 dust

Next word:
Gongoozler

[DunnySaze]

Today @ 03:11 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=282978#post282978)
beeblebrox:

Next word:
Gongoozler

OK, that was the last of the chemical names. :smile:

Gongoozler: British canal worker slang for a person hanging around the canal watching the workers go back and forth in the canal.

BOUSTROPHEDONICALLY

[themuzicman]

Going back and forth.

osteopetrotic

[DunnySaze]

Today @ 04:26 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=283741#post283741)
themuzicman:

Going back and forth.

osteopetrotic

Of or relating to an abnormal thickening and hardening of bones.

'is'

http://www.tvdance.com/clinton/1a.gif

[themuzicman]

"Guilty".


"pervarication"

[mossrose]

I assume you meant prevarication, although when we are talking about "is", then PERVarication may be more appropriate..... :nc:

Main Entry: pre·var·i·cate
Pronunciation: pri-'var-&-"kAt
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -cat·ed; -cat·ing
Etymology: Latin praevaricatus, past participle of praevaricari to act in collusion, literally, to straddle, from prae- + varicare to straddle, from varus bowlegged
Date: circa 1631
: to deviate from the truth : EQUIVOCATE
synonym see LIE


"oecoid"

[DunnySaze]

The colorless porous framework, or stroma, of red blood corpuscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out.

'circumlocution'

[mossrose]

The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.


"Tmesis"

[SemmiesBaldBro]

"Tmesis"

In grammar and rhetoric, the separation of the parts of a compound word, now generally done for humorous effect; for example, "what place soever" instead of "whatsoever place," or "abso-blooming-lutely."

Tmesis is from Greek tmesis, "a cutting," from temnein, "to cut."

lissom

[mossrose]

"lissom" means graceful, willowy........you know, those things that I am not?

:bawl:


"egress"

[Teallaura]

"lissom" means graceful, willowy........you know, those things that I am not?

:bawl:


"egress"


Egress: an exit

Barnum's American Museum was famous for a sign it had toward the back door: "This way to the Egress" - people went through thinking it was an exhibit - instead they got a good joke. :wink:



chancre

[Lily]

chancre.....a dull red,hard insensitive lesion that is the first manifestation of syphillis :eww:


lunkhead :hehe:

[norwegen]

lunkhead: A stupid person; a dolt.


fardo