Word of the day

Tribology (noun)

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

Ceneromancy (noun)

1. Divination involving the ashes of a specifically sacrificial or ritual fire.

alternatim (adv)

1. Alternately, by turns

Xanthocyanopsia (noun)

A form of color blindness in which red cannot be distinguished from green, but only blue from yellow.

blench (verb)

1. To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
2. To quail.
3. To deceive; cheat.
4. To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
5. To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
6. To fly off; to turn aside.

Blench (noun)

1. A deceit; a trick.
2. A sidelong glance.

lepidopterous (adj)

1. Having scaly wings.
2. Of, or pertaining to butterflies.

anamorphic (adj)

1. Of or relating to the anamorph, an asexual stage in the development of certain fungi.
2. Changing to a more complex form.
3. Producing various optically distorted images.

wherewith (adv)

1. With which; with what.

Cleromancy (noun)

1. Divination by casting lots.
2. Divination by throwing dice or any such marked objects, like beans, pebbles, or bone.

adscititious (adj)

1. Derived or acquired from something extrinsic; not part of the real, inherent, or essential nature of a thing.

aculeiform (adj)

1. Shaped like a thorn.

Rasophore (noun)

1. Lowest rank of Greek Orthodox monk.

Barras (noun)

1. Galipot resin.
2. Coarse linen fabric.

Xoanon (noun)

1. A wooden statue overlaid with ivory and gold used as a cult image in Ancient Greece.

Aureity (noun)

1. property of being golden in color or substance.

Kora (noun)

1. A stringed musical instrument whose body is composed of a long hardwood neck that passes through a calabash gourd resonator, itself covered by a leather soundboard.

fluster (verb)

1. To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.
2. To make (someone) feel flushed and hot through drinking alcoholic beverages; also, to make (someone) slightly drunk or tipsy.
3. To be agitated and confused; to bustle.
4. To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.
5. To boast or brag noisily; to bluster, to swagger.
6. Of a seed: to produce a shoot quickly.

Fluster (noun)

1. A state of agitation or confusion; a flutter.
2. A state of slight drunkenness or tipsiness; also, the excitement caused by this state.
3. Showiness, splendor.

E=mc² (noun)

1. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.
2. A formulation or realization that captures a profound thought in simple terms.

Tomography (noun)

1. Imaging by sections or sectioning.
2. Scanning to obtain detailed image of solid structure.

Quantivalence (noun)

1. The combining capacity of an atom, functional group, or radical determined by the number of atoms of hydrogen with which it will unite, or the number of electrons that it will gain, lose, or share when it combines with other atoms, etc.
2. Equivalence measured quantitatively.

Holograph (noun)

1. A handwritten document that is solely the work of the person whose signature it bears, especially a letter, deed, or will; an original manuscript, a protograph.
2. A hologram.

Halomancy (noun)

1. Divination using salt.

Zibib (noun)

1. Colorless alcoholic drink made from raisins that turns white upon the addition of water.

Ullage (noun)

1. In a wine bottle, the empty space between the cork and the top of the wine.
2. In a cask or barrel, the empty space, occupied by air, that is created by not completely filling the cask or barrel, or through spillage.
3. The topping-up of such a barrel with fresh wine.
4. In an industrial setting, the empty space in a tank, especially as for fuel.
5. Additional cargo of little or no value taken on to prevent movement of shifting of the purposive cargo.

Witchknot (noun)

1. A knot of hair.
2. A knot made by a Witch to cast or ward off a spell.

funicular (adj)

1. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable
2. Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
3. Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
4. Catenary.