{"id":3690,"date":"2022-02-11T10:19:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2022-02-11T10:19:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:19:22","slug":"friday-vocabulary-193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=3690","title":{"rendered":"Friday Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. molinary<\/strong> \u2014 of or related to the grinding of corn<\/p>\n

But the crows quickly resumed their post in the old tree, and the old woman resumed her <\/em>molinary exertions at the metate.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2. amain<\/strong> \u2014 at full force, violently; at full speed<\/p>\n

Their chargers coursed <\/em>amain down the slight declivity and fell upon the Saracen foe like a river in flood.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

3. shandy<\/strong> \u2014 drink made up of beer and lemonade<\/p>\n

If a woman must drink, she should imbibe something appropriate to her nature, such as a <\/em>shandy or its ancestor the shandygaff.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

4. reresupper<\/strong> \u2014 meal of lavish nature taken after usual evening supper <\/p>\n

Besides second breakfasts the colonel was accustomed to append a <\/em>reresupper to his daily meals whenever his old cavalry comrades came to stay at the mansion.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

5. scall<\/strong> \u2014 eczema<\/p>\n

And this compound will be found a useful treatment for scurf, <\/em>scall, and similar uncleannesses of the head.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

6. cacodemon<\/strong> \u2014 evil spirit; [obsolete] nightmare<\/p>\n

Though some felt Mr. Tobert under the baleful sway of a <\/em>cacodemon, his actions were in general so ludicrous and so harmless that most thought them caused by a more secular derangement of the senses.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

7. sprat<\/strong> \u2014 small fish of the herring family; small thing of little consequence<\/p>\n

Around this time, a trifling <\/em>sprat of political consciousness broke out among some of the rank-and-file, quickly squelched by the union leaders.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

8. fossick<\/strong> \u2014 to search for gold in abandoned diggings; to hunt about<\/p>\n

While they <\/em>fossick for the clues we’ve already found, we’ll be enjoying our new life in South America.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

9. skerry<\/strong> \u2014 sea-rock covered during high tide, reef<\/p>\n

Though the <\/em>skerry looked ominous, its crags were no danger to our small skiff while the tide was out, though a larger craft would have been imperiled.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

10. tow<\/strong> \u2014 shorter fibers of flax separated from the longer more useful strands<\/p>\n

When Birnie knocked over the oil lamp it fell upon his small bed and the blanket burned like <\/em>tow, and the small room was quickly engulfed in flames.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. molinary \u2014 of or related to the grinding of corn But the crows quickly resumed their post in the old tree, and the old woman resumed her molinary exertions at the metate.   2. amain \u2014 at full force, violently; at full speed Their chargers coursed amain down the slight declivity and fell upon … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Friday Vocabulary”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-vocabulary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}