fusty \FUHS-tee\, adjective:
1. Having a stale smell; moldy; musty.
2. Old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like.
3. Stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned; fogyish.
And we'll have no fustyness from you; do I want to go shooting?
interpolation \in-tur-puh-LEY-shuhn\, noun:
1. The act or process of introducing something additional or extraneous between other parts.
2. Something interpolated, as a passage introduced into a text.
3. Mathematics. A. The process of determining the value of a function between two points at which it has prescribed values. B. A similar process using more than two points at which the function has prescribed values. C. The process of approximating a given function by using its values at a discrete set of points.
Interesting; I think bees are busy with this population.
adventive \ad-VEN-tiv\, adjective:
1. Not native and usually not yet well established, as exotic plants or animals.
noun:
1. A not native and usually not yet well established plant or animal.
1. A song, poem, or hymn especially of praise.
2. One of the nonmetrical hymns or chants, chiefly from the Bible, used in church services.
swaddle \SWOD-l\, verb:
1. To bind an infant with long, narrow strips of cloth to prevent free movement.
2. To wrap (anything) round with bandages.
noun:
1. A long, narrow strip of cloth used for swaddling or bandaging.
I am far from swaddling; yet I am what I am and the truth is hard to see for those who are somewhat lacking in Faith like Potatoes....AMEN
calvous \KAL-vuhs\, adjective:
Lacking all or most of the hair on the head; bald.
This has got to get better; although showing the signs, I am not yet calvous.
brogue \brohg\, noun:
1. Any strong regional accent.
2. An Irish accent in the pronunciation of English.
3. A durable, comfortable, low-heeled shoe, often having decorative perforations and a wing tip.
4. A coarse, usually untanned leather shoe once worn in Ireland and Scotland.
5. Brogan.
6. A fraud; trick; prank.
Weell that was Yesterday's word...and I would love to tell you about my Brogues...
gangrel \GANG-gruhl\, noun:
1. A lanky, loose-jointed person.
2. A wandering beggar; vagabond; vagrant.
Well Sundays word is good enough for Monday.
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