I love dictionaries. I love how you can go flipping through them looking for the definition of one thing, only to get distracted and find yourself lost in definitions of "pedograph" and "pin boy." Some of the definitions are poetry to read. The game this week is to get the biggest dictionary you can find and educate us all on whatever obscure word or phrase you wish.
Here's one I like for the poetry:
revolute: curled or rolled backward or downward at the tips or margins, as some leaves.
Victor Hugo: means incendiary; tending to excite or inflame.
Don't believe me?
You'll discover here the following definitions as well:
Dumas - imaginative
MoliËre - comic.
Montaigne - thoughtful.
Rabelais - unclean.
Rousseau - amorous,
Zola - licentious
I opened a dictionary and there IT was!
remontoir: An apparatus that utilizes force from the train of a clock to give new impulse to the escape wheel at certain intervals, usually once in 30 seconds.
Posted by: Jane at August 8, 2002 03:24 PM