Word of the day

Tribology (noun)

1. (physics, engineering) The science and technology of friction, lubrication, and wear.

Buckle (noun)

1. A metal clasp with a hinged tongue or a spike through which a belt or strap is passed and penetrated by the tongue or spike, in order to fasten the ends of the belt together or to secure the strap to something else.
2. Some other form of clasp used to fasten two things together.
3. An image of a clasp used as the brisure of an eighth daughter.
4. A great conflict or struggle.
5. A distortion; a bend, bulge, or kink.
6. An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane, frequently occurring over deck joints or insulation, which may indicate movement of the roof assembly.
7. Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a cake baked with fresh fruit (often blueberries) and a streusel topping.
8. A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn.
9. The state of hair being curled in this manner.

segue (verb)

1. To move smoothly from one state or subject to another.
2. To make a smooth transition from one theme to another.

seethe (verb)

1. Of a liquid or other substance, or a container holding it: to be boiled (vigorously); to become boiling hot.
2. Of a liquid, vapour, etc., or a container holding it: to foam or froth in an agitated manner, as if boiling.
3. Of a person: to be in an agitated or angry mental state, often in a way that is not obvious to others.
4. Of a place: to be filled with many people or things moving about actively; to buzz with activity; also, of people or things: to move about actively in a crowd or group.
5. Of a place: to have inhabitants in an angry or disaffected mood; to be in a state of unrest.
6. To overboil (something) so that it loses its flavour or texture; hence (figurative), to cause (the body, the mind, the spirit, etc.) to become dull through too much alcoholic drink or heat.
7. To soak (something) in a liquid; to drench, to steep.
8. To boil (something); especially, to cook (food) by boiling or stewing; also, to keep (something) boiling.
9. Of the stomach: to digest (food).

Seethe (noun)

1. A state of boiling or frothing; ebullition, seething; hence, extreme heat; much activity.

piffle (verb)

1. To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.

Palindrome (noun)

1. A word, phrase, number or any other sequence of units which has the property of reading the same forwards as it does backwards, character for character, sometimes disregarding punctuation, capitalization and diacritics.
2. A poetic form in which the sequence of words reads the same in either direction.
3. A sequence of items that follows the same pattern both forwards and backwards.
4. A stretch of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand.

Hypotrochoid (noun)

1. A geometric curve traced by a fixed point on the radius line outside one circle which rotates inside the perimeter of another circle.

extemporise (verb)

1. To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.

Wrath (noun)

1. Great anger.
2. Punishment, retribution, or vengeance resulting from anger.
3. Great ardour or passion.
4. One or more fictional characters:
   i. King Bradley, the Führer of Amestris who is later revealed to be a Homunculus and the embodiment of some of Father's wrath in the original manga and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
   ii. A Homunculus exclusive to the 2003 anime Fullmetal Alchemist who was revealed to be the offspring of Izumi Curtis instead of King Bradley.
   iii. The name of two fictional supervillains published by DC Comics. The original Wrath debuted in Batman Special #1 (1984), and was created by Mike W. Barr and Michael Golden,[1] who served as a criminal foil personality to the superhero Batman, after the creation of Killer Moth (in 1951) and prior to the creations of the villains Prometheus (in 1998) and Hush (in 2003), all serving the same purpose. The second Wrath debuted in Batman Confidential #13 (March 2008), and was created by Tony Bedard and Rags Morales.
   iv. One of the Sons of Trigon. He was created by Judd Winick and Julian Lopez, first appearing in Titans (Volume 2) #3 (2008).
   v. One of seven princes of Hell, and the ruler of House Wrath. His true name, Samael, is a closely guarded secret. From the book series Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco (October 2020).
   vi. A warrior of the Prosilicans who took part in the Reckoning War created by Dan Slott, R.B. Silva. First appearance Fantastic Four: Reckoning War Alpha #1 (February, 2022).

wrath (verb)

1. To anger (someone); to enrage.
2. To become angry with (someone).
3. To become angry.

wrath (adj)

1. Synonym of wroth (“full of anger; wrathful”).

threadbare (adj)

1. Of cloth, clothing, furnishings, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show; shabby, worn-out.
2. In poor condition; damaged, shabby; also, poorly equipped or provided for, inadequate, meagre, scanty.
3. Of an argument, excuse, etc.: used so often that it is no longer effective or interesting; banal, clichéd, trite.
4. Of a person: wearing clothes of threadbare material; hence, impoverished, poor.

Fly Ash (noun)

1. A residue generated in the combustion of powdered coal or other materials, comprising the fine particles that rise with the flue gases; when generated industrially it is usually captured and can be recycled for use in construction materials.

lovelily (adv)

1. In a lovely way.
2. In a manner to excite or inspire admiration or love; admirably, beautifully, wonderfully.
3. In a friendly or pleasant manner; amiably, kindly, pleasantly.

Alcoholiday (noun)

1. A holiday or leisure time spent drinking alcohol.
2. A period of time during which one intentionally abstains from drinking alcohol.

Christmas  (noun)

1. A festival or holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ and incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian, pagan, and secular customs, which in Western Christianity is celebrated on December 25 (Christmas Day) in most places.
2. Short for Christmas season (“the period of time before and after Christmas Day, during which people prepare for and celebrate Christmas”); Christmastime.
3. Sprigs of holly and other evergreen plants used as Christmas decorations; also (generally), any Christmas decorations.

Christmas (adj)

1. Red and green in color.
2. Of a dish: having a sauce made with red (ripe) and green (unripe) chili peppers.

Christmas (verb)

1. To decorate (a place) with Christmas “sprigs of holly and other things ending in olly."
2. To bring (someone) Christmas cheer.
3. To celebrate Christmas.
4. To spend Christmas or the Christmas season in some place.

Christmas (interj)

1. An expression of annoyance or surprise: Christ, Jesus Christ, Jiminy Cricket, Jiminy Crickets.

troll (verb)

1. To move (something, especially a round object) by, or as if by, rolling; to bowl, to roll, to trundle.
2. To roll; also, to turn round and round; to rotate, to spin, to whirl.24. To move or walk at a leisurely pace; to ramble, to saunter, to stroll.
3. Chiefly of a man: synonym of cruise (“to stroll about to find a (male) sexual partner”).
4. Followed by in: to flow or roll in like a stream.
5. To sing the parts of (a catch, round, or similar song) in succession; also (generally), to sing (a song) freely or in a carefree way, or loudly.
6. To pass (something, specifically a bowl or other communal drinking vessel) from one person to another; to circulate, to send about.
7. Often followed by in: to cause (something) to flow or roll in like a stream.
8. Of bells: to ring a sequence of tones in a resounding manner.
9. Of a person: to sing the parts of a catch, round, or similar song in succession; also (generally), to sing freely or in a carefree way, or loudly.
10. Of a song: to be sung freely or in a carefree way, or loudly; also, of a tune: to be constantly in someone's mind.
11. Of a bowl or other communal drinking vessel, or the drink inside it: to be passed around from one person to another.
12. To say (something) lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.
13. To move (the tongue) lightly and quickly when speaking.
14. To speak lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.
15. To move lightly and quickly; especially of the tongue when speaking; to wag.
16. To fish in (a place) using a running fishing line (that is, a line with a hook on the end which is drawn along the water surface, possibly a line which would originally have been spooled on to a troll.
17. To attract or draw out (someone or something); to allure, to elicit, to entice, to lure.
18. To make or post inflammatory or insincere statements in an attempt to lure people into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment or to manipulate their perception, especially in an online community or discussion.

Troll (noun)

1. A mythological creature.
2. An ugly or boorish person.
3. A [internet] Troll.

subglacial (adj)

1. Formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice.
2. Moving at a rate allegedly slower than a glacier; extremely slow.

Washout (noun)

1. An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
2. An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
3. The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
4. A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
5. A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
6. An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
7. A total failure; a disappointment.
8. An unsuccessful person.
9. The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
10. A destroyed airplane.
11. A trainee who drops out of a training program.
12. A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
13. The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
14. The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
15. A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.

Scut (noun)

1. A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
2. A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
3. The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
4. A contemptible person.
5. Distasteful work; drudgery; specifically (medicine, slang) some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.

Melange (noun)

1. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
2. A Viennese coffee specialty, half steamed milk and half coffee.

Ideogram (noun)

1. A symbol which represents the idea of something without indicating the sequence of sounds used to pronounce it.

Alicorn (noun)

1. The horn of a unicorn considered as a medical or pharmacological ingredient.

Dragoon (noun)

1. Synonym of dragon (“a type of musket with a short, large-calibre barrel and a flared muzzle, metaphorically exhaling fire like a mythical dragon”)
2. Originally (historical), a soldier armed with a dragoon musket who fought both on foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or horse soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets.
3. A man with a fierce or unrefined manner, like a dragoon.
4. A variety of pigeon, originally a cross between a horseman and a tumbler.

dragoon (verb [transitive])

1. To subject (a Huguenot) to the dragonnades (“a policy instituted by Louis XIV of France in 1681 to intimidate Protestant Huguenots to convert to Roman Catholicism by billeting dragoons in their homes to abuse them and destroy or steal their possessions”).
2. Chiefly followed by into: to force (someone) into doing something through harassment and intimidation; to coerce.
3. To cause (someone) to be attacked by dragoons.

exoteric (adj)

1. Of a doctrine, information, etc.: suitable to be imparted to the public without secrecy or other reservations.
2. Of a person: not part of an enlightened inner circle; not privy to esoteric knowledge.
3. Capable of being fully or readily comprehended by the public; accessible; also, having an obvious application.
4. Having wide currency; popular, prevalent.

Exoteric (noun)

1. A person who is not part of an enlightened inner circle, and not privy to esoteric knowledge; an outsider, an uninitiate.

Lapidary (noun)

1. A person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones.
2. The field in which such a person works, a sub-field of gemology.
3. An expert in gems and precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.
4. A treatise on (precious) stones.

lapidary (adj)

1. Of or pertaining to gems and precious stones, or the art of working them.
2. Of an inscription: engraved on stone.
3. Of a piece of writing or a writing style: characteristic of or suitable for an inscription; embodying the precision and refinement of inscriptions on monuments; concise and stately.
4. Of or pertaining to stones in general.

Saturnalia (noun)

1. A period or occasion of general license; a period of unrestrained revelry.

Kitchendom (noun)

1. The domain of the kitchen or people who work there.