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 ...
12、alive -al: pertaining to = have a connection with vital = having a connection with lifenvivacous: adj. apprec. full of life and high spirits; lively -ous: full of vivacous = full of life (energy)nvivid: producing sharp clear pictures in the mind; lifelike -id: having a certain...
"travelling carriage drawn by horses in posts," 1712, frompost(n.3) "communication from one place to another by relays" +chaise. poster(n.) "bill, placard, thing posted," 1838, frompost(v.1).Poster boy/girl/child"someone given prominence in certain causes" is attested by 1990, in re...
18. Take it out (using your oven mitts) and set it on something to cool off for a minute or two. Then serve it to table (I put the ramekins on my small cutting board for transport) and make sure there are things of some kind on the table to allow you and your co-diner to tou...
"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. ...
& 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 ...
stable noun a farm building for housing horses or other livestock staff noun personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task stairs noun a flight of stairs or a flight of steps standard noun a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evalua...
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!
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 ...