Cc: Cybernaut

Noun

1.

cybernaut - a computer user who uses the internet; someone who explores cyberspace computer user - a person who uses computers for work or entertainment or communication or business

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The Global Village Idiot is the cybernaut eating a Big Mac.

Information man: David Joselit on Jon Kessler's "Global Village Idiot" by Joselit, David / Artforum International

Pp: Paraklete

The Holy Spirit which Christ promised to His disciples would take His place as their teacher and guide after He left them. Also the name of the monastery founded by Abelard near Nogent-sur-Seine, and of which Heloïse (q.v.) was abbess.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Ii: Ignoramus

n. pl. ig·no·ra·mus·es

An ignorant person.

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[From New Latin ignrmus, a grand jury's endorsement upon a bill of indictment when evidence is deemed insufficient to send the case to a trial jury, from Latin, we do not know, first person pl. present tense of ignrre, to be ignorant; see ignore.]

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You have already remarked that I am an ignoramus in mathematical subjects; and it is impossible for me to find out how the savants of the observatory were able to calculate what initiatory speed the projectile ought to have on leaving the Columbiad in order to attain the moon.Round The Moon by Verne, Jules

Rr: Rescue Chip

A rescue chip is the chip you use to fish the bits of the first one that broke apart in the dip.

My tortilla chip busted when I tried to load it with extra salsa so I gotta get a rescue chip to recover the pieces.

Ff: Frogmarch

Noun

a method of carrying a resisting person in which each limb is held and the victim is face downwards

Verb

to carry in a frogmarch or cause to move forward unwillingly

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His loss numbed him; he could scarcely feel it. It frogmarched him through his days.

Thirty Three Swoons Martha Cooley

Hh: Hyacinth

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n.

1.

a. A bulbous Mediterranean plant (Hyacinthus orientalis) having narrow leaves and a terminal raceme of variously colored, usually fragrant flowers, with a funnel-shaped perianth. Also called jacinth.

b. Any of several similar or related plants, such as the grape hyacinth.

2. Greek Mythology A plant, perhaps the larkspur, gladiolus, or iris, that sprang from the blood of the slain Hyacinthus.

3. A deep purplish blue to vivid violet.

4.

a. A reddish or cinnamon-colored variety of transparent zircon, used as a gemstone.

b. A blue precious stone, perhaps the sapphire, known in antiquity.

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[Latin hyacinthus, from Greek huakinthos, wild hyacinth.]

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hya·cinthine (-snthn, -thn) adj.

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And though the love of a hyacinth may be rather domestic, who can tell, the sentiment once raised, but you may in time come to love a rose?

Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane

Gg: Guru

An acknowledged and influential advocate, as of a movement or idea:

I am no Khitai, but a Bhotiya [Tibetan], since you must know - a lama - or, say, a guru in your tongue.
Kim by Kipling, Rudyard

Ss: Skullduggery

n. pl. skull·dug·ger·ies or skul·dug·ger·ries

Crafty deception or trickery or an instance of it.

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[Probably alteration of Scots sculduddery, obscenity, fornication.]

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• Skullduggery (album), an album by the band Steppenwolf
• Skullduggery (film), a 1970 film starring Burt Reynolds
• Skullduggery (event), a historic Orientation Week event established in 1896, held annually at the University of Adelaide
• Skullduggery (computer game), a text adventure game written by David Jewett in 1986
• The English name for Kinkotsuman, a character from the manga series Kinnikuman
• Skullduggery (board game), winner of one of five "Mensa Select" seals at 2007 Mind Games in Pittsburgh, PA
• Skullduggery (comic), an upcoming fictional comic book series by Nick Simmons (son of Gene Simmons)
• Skullduggery FC, an indoor soccer football club based in Boise, Idaho, USA

Ee: End-Run

end run

n.

1. Football A play in which the ball carrier attempts to run around one end of the defensive line.

2. Informal A maneuver in which impediments are bypassed, often by deceit or trickery: made an end run around the departmental finance officer in order to increase the budget.

For Bush, setting up a religious-related office in the White House and end-running the overall ban on funneling federal money to religious organizations may have several purposes.

Mr. President, Remember Church-State Separation! by Thomas, Helen / Church & State

Mm: Manacled

Noun	1.	manacle - shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs handcuff, handlock, cuff hamper, shackle, trammel, bond - a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
Verb	1.	manacle - confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs; "The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime" handcuff, cuff fetter, shackle - restrain with fetters But there was the knife thrower bathed in blood-light, there was the pale victim manacled to the wall; in the shadows the dark woman; and in the glare o the lighting, in the silence, in the very rhythm of the evening, the promise of entering a dark dream. The Knife Thrower - Steven Millhauser

Ss:Sernediptious

1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.

2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.

3. An instance of making such a discovery.

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[From the characters in the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, who made such discoveries, from Persian Sarandp, Sri Lanka, from Arabic sarandb.]

Ii: Inchoate

adj.

1. In an initial or early stage; incipient.

2. Imperfectly formed or developed: a vague, inchoate idea.

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[Latin inchotus, past participle of inchore, to begin, alteration of incohre : in-, in; see in-² + cohum, strap from yoke to harness.]

Then his eyes went muddy, as if he had lost his grip on the inchoate thought.

Before Adam by London, Jack View in context

Mm: Macadam

n.

Pavement made of layers of compacted broken stone, now usually bound with tar or asphalt.

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[After John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836), Scottish civil engineer.]

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Coming nearer and nearer to earth, I wondered if Colonel Boycott ever uses the word "boycott," and how strange it must have seemed to the late MacAdam to walk for miles and miles upon his own name, like a carpet spread out before him.The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard

Qq: Quintessence

n.

1. The pure, highly concentrated essence of a thing.

2. The purest or most typical instance: the quintessence of evil.

3. In ancient and medieval philosophy, the fifth and highest essence after the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water, thought to be the substance of the heavenly bodies and latent in all things.

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[Middle English, from Old French quinte essence, fifth essence, from Medieval Latin qunta essentia (translation of Greek pempt ousi) : Latin qunta, feminine of quntus, fifth; see penk^we in Indo-European roots + Latin essentia, essence; see essence.]

This great man, as is well known to all lovers of polite eating, begins at first by setting plain things before his hungry guests, rising afterwards by degrees as their stomachs may be supposed to decrease, to the very quintessence of sauce and spices.The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry

Gg: Gorges

n.

1. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky sides; a ravine.

2. A narrow entrance into the outwork of a fortification.

3. The throat; the gullet: The gory sight made my gorge rise.

4. The crop of a hawk.

5. An instance of gluttonous eating.

6. The contents of the stomach; something swallowed.

7. A mass obstructing a narrow passage: a shipping lane blocked by an ice gorge.

8. The seam on the front of a coat or jacket where the lapel and the collar are joined.

[Middle English, throat, from Old French, from Late Latin gurga, perhaps from Latin gurges, whirlpool, abyss.]

Crisscrossed by several gorges, it featured multiple quads, each of which abound in old-growth trees and offered pretty walks. Martha Cooley: Thirty Three Swoons

Vv: Voluptuousness

adj.

1. Giving, characterized by, or suggesting ample, unrestrained pleasure to the senses: voluptuous sculptural forms; a voluptuous ripe fruit; a full, voluptuous figure.

2.

a. Devoted to or indulging in sensual pleasures.

b. Directed toward or anticipating sensual pleasure: voluptuous thoughts.

c. Arising from or contributing to the satisfaction of sensuous or sensual desires. See Synonyms at sensuous.

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[Middle English, from Old French voluptueux, from Latin voluptusus, full of pleasure, from volupts, pleasure; see wel-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

They did not think sufficiently into the depth; therefore their feeling did not reach to the bottom.

Some sensation of voluptuousness and some sensation of tedium: these have as yet been their best contemplation.

Ghost-breathing and ghost-whisking, seemeth to me all the jingle-jangling of their harps; what have they known hitherto of the fervour of tones!--

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context

Mm: Majolica

n.

1. Tin-glazed earthenware that is often richly colored and decorated, especially an earthenware of this type produced in Italy.

2. Pottery made in imitation of this earthenware.

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[Italian maiolica, from Medieval Latin Milica, Majorca (where it was made), alteration of Late Latin Mirica.]

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I'd better meet you on your own ground, and talk about your majolica and engravings.Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo

Hh: Hagridden

tr.v. hag·rode (rd), hag·rid·den (rdn), hag·rid·ing, hag·rides

To torment or harass, especially with worry or dread:
"a man hagridden by the futurehaunted by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth" C.S. Lewis.

How can I convey to the reader, who does not know him, any just impression of this extraordinary figure of our time, this syren, this goat-footed bard, this half-human visitor to our age from the hagridden magic and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity?

A Letter from Wales by Harries, Owen / The National Interest