Saturday, April 9

words

shiggaion
from the verb shagah, "to reel about through drink," occurs in the title of Ps. 7 ("O LORD my God, in You I have taken refuge; Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,"). The plural form, shigionoth, is found in Hab. 3:1 ("A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth."). The word denotes a lyrical poem composed under strong mental emotion; a song of impassioned imagination accompanied with suitable music; a dithyrambic ode.

beme
From Middle English beme, from Old English bēme, bȳme, bīeme ‎(“trumpet", also "tablet, billet”), from Proto-Germanic *baumijǭ ‎(“wooden instrument”), from *baumaz ‎(“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhū ‎(“to grow”).
From Middle English bemen, from Old English bȳmian ‎(“to blow a trumpet, trumpet forth”), from bȳme ‎(“trumpet”).

Blodeuwedd or Blodeuedd,
(Middle Welsh composite name from blodeu 'flowers, blossoms' + gwedd 'face, aspect, appearance': "flower face"), is the wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes in Welsh mythology, made from the flowers of broom, meadowsweet and the oak by the magicians Math and Gwydion, and is a central figure in the fourth branch of the Mabinogi.

connate
1. Bot. and Zool. Congenitally united, so as to have the form of one compound organ or body; used, e.g. of leaves united at the base; of elytra (in insects), bones (in vertebrates), etc., typically distinct but in certain species coalescent.
2.Geol. Designating water trapped in a sedimentary rock during its deposition.
3. Born with a person; existing in a person or thing from birth or origin, or as a part of his nature; inborn, innate, congenital. (Usually of ideas, principles, etc.)

incalescent
Becoming hot or warm; increasing in warmth. lit. and fig.

clart
Sticky or claggy dirt, mud, filth; (with pl.), a daub of sticky dirt.

carnifex
(ˈkɑːnɪfɛks)[L. carnifex, carnific-em, f. carn-em flesh + -fex, -ficem, maker, f. fac- (in comb. -fic-) make, making; in ancient L. `executioner', but in med.L. often `butcher' (the trade),παρουσία

παρουσία (parousia)
Presence, arrival, official visit of a king or emperor, and celebrated the glory of the sovereign publicly. A less common and distinct secondary meaning is to refer to a person's material substance, property, or inheritance, including contribution in money.

caparison
1. A cloth or covering spread over the saddle or harness of a horse, often gaily ornamented; housings, trappings; also of other beasts of burden.
2. The dress and ornaments of men and women: equipment, outfit. Also fig.

hibernacle
A winter retreat; a hibernaculum.

moue
1. a pout
2. to ogle, to stare at
3. to utter (words) with a moue

rogation
1. (f. rogāre to ask)  Eccl. (Usually pl.) Solemn supplications consisting of the litany of the saints, chanted during procession on the three days before Ascension Day; hence freq., the days upon which this is done, the Rogation days. (Cf. roveison.)

awn
The delicate spinous process, or `beard,' that terminates the grain-sheath of barley, oats, and other grasses; extended in Bot. to any similar bristly growth.

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