Centaurs with the bodies of goats instead of horses. AEgipan was a woodland god similar to Pan (though with four legs), the son of Zeus who aided the gods in the battle of the Titans. used in: The Fall of the House of Usher Aeolus The Greek god of the winds. used in: Eleonora ...
(bound)n3) conceive, deceive, receive ceive= capere (l) = to take (bound)n4) revive, vitamin, vital, vivacious, vivid vit, viv = life / to live (bound) backnvital: necessary in order to stay alive -al: pertaining to = have a connection with vital = having a connection with life...
"unable to speak out freely from embarrassment, etc.," 1520s, a figurative expression, "as though one's tongue were tied;" seetongue(n.) +tie(v.). This was done to horses for various reasons;tongue-tie(v.) is from 1550s but considered probably a back-formation. ...
as the second element in compounds expressing particular types of madness (such as nymphomania, 1775; kleptomania, 1830; megalomania, 1890), originally in Medical Latin, in imitation of Greek, which had a few such compounds, mostly post-classical: gynaikomania (women), hippomania (horses), ...
& pl.) Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot. Neat (n.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle. Neat (a.) Free from that which ...
Proceeds from the book go to a positive parenting charity that specifically supports fathers, and the anthology includes an impassioned essay, by Aurélien Thomas, pertaining to the status of fatherhood in contemporary society. This book makes an ideal present for Father’s Day … or birthdays …...
variousshapesorformsofamorpheme donotdifferinmeaningorfunction conditionedbypositionoradjoiningsounds back 8 E.g. book→books /-s/ pig→pigs /-z/ horse→horses /-iz/ E.g. perfect,responsible,logical,flexible perfect→imperfect responsible→irresponsible logical→illogical flexible→inflexible E.g. inve...
Cognitive bias — the tendency to ignore base rate information (generic, general information) and focus on specific information (information only pertaining to a certain case). bathos A fall from the sublime to the commonplace. battologize To write or repeat words or phrases. bauhaus A school ...
A large open vehicle, drawn by horses or oxen, for carrying heavy loads, esp. of agricultural produce; usually four-wheeled. The word does not occur in the Bible of 1611, though Wyclif and the 16th c. translators use it. As a colloquial word it survives only in dialects, but in poetry...
Yea, a trooper of the forces who has run his own six horses,And faith he went the pace and went it blind,And the world was more than kin while he held the ready tin,But to-day the Sergeant's something less than kind.We're poor little lambs who've lost our way,Baa! Baa! Baa!