Sunday, October 23

words

psychrolute
n. - A person who bathes outside regularly throughout the winter.

nubiferous
adj. - That brings clouds; cloudy or full of cloud; existing in clouds
(cf. nubiform, nimbose)

murmell
v. - Sc. (now chiefly Orkney): trans. To complain of, bemoan; to lament over. In early use: †to mutter, mumble (obs.)--intr. Of a baby: to coo, to gurgle

omphalos
n. - In the temple of Apollo at Delphi: a sacred stone of a rounded conical shape, supposed to mark the centre of the earth--A boss on a shield--Archaeol. A raised prominence in the base of a cup, dish, etc.

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