read the entire dictionary

And I leave you with Queen Mab. Tinkerbell has a Queen Mab couch you know.

I’m going to buy myself a copy of the Collegiate Webster’s with a CD ROM. And I’m going to contact the publishers with suggestions, corrections, and additions.

Ursus Thalarctos maritimus

An English argot used among circus performers and homosexuals, among others, derived from Italian.

armor for the knee

And Sir Isaac Pitman’s phonography of 1837.

To be continued…

For tomorrow! But here’s one to start with:

Palgrave noun
Francis Turner. 1824-97, British critic and poet, editor of the poetry anthology The Golden Treasury (1861)

pachytene is the third stage of prophase in meiosis, during which each chromosome pair separates into sister chromatids with some breakage and crossing over of genes. (from F from Greek pachys, thick).

paddy as in rice paddy comes from a Malay word for uncut rice.

Padus, the old name for the Po River.

H, He, Li, Be, B, C, N, O,F, Ne (neon), etc.

Frances Perkins, (1882-1965)U.S. sociologist. What did she do? politicalgraveyard.com informs us:
Frances Perkins (1882-1965) — also known as Mrs. Paul Caldwell Wilson — of Newcastle, Lincoln County, Maine. Born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., April 10, 1882. Daughter of Frederick W. Perkins and Susan Perkins. Sociologist; New York State Industrial Commissioner, 1929-33; U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1933-45. Female. Episcopalian. Member, American Civil Liberties Union. First woman to serve in the Cabinet. Died in New York City (unknown county), N.Y., May 14, 1965. Interment at Cemetery on River Road, Newcastle, Maine.

permutation,

persiflage, light bantering talk. [from 1750-60, French persifler]

Owen Stanley, the mountain range in SE Papua. The highest peak is 13, 249 feet, or 4036 metres. Check that for me, someone, to see if the conversion was done right. Also, does anyone know the native or indigenous name for that peak?

I’ve started to research Owen Stanley Mountains, and am coming across some very interesting WWII Australian military history.

http://www.users.bigpond.com/battleforAustralia/battaust/KokodaCampaign/IntoHellMouth.html

Wiki has some history, but I haven’t come across the New Guinean native names for anything other than the Kokoda Pass:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Stanley_Range

neat, n. pl neat; a bovine, as in a cow or an ox. (See neat’s foot oil)
nates, buttocks.

noctiluca, a dinoflagellate which causes the seas to glow.

Sean O’Casey, Irish playwright, 1880-1964

principle in philosophy, science that assumptions used to explain a thing must not be multiplied beyond necessity. In other words,
“keep it simple, stupid (kiss).”

oeillade, an amourous glance;

oenophile, n one who loves or is a connoisseur of wine

oersted, the cm/gram/second unit of magnetic intensity, equal to the magnetic pole of unit strenght when undergoing a forceof one dyne in a vacuum. Abbr: Oe. Named after Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851).

O’Faolain, Sean (1900-1991) writer. [I’ll try to use search engines to see what these writers wrote].

O’Flaherty, Liam (1896-1984) yet another Irish novelist.

Lake Onega: in NW Confederacy of Independent Russian States, the second largest lake in Europe, 3,764 mi. squared (9750 km ^2);

1888-1953, U.S. playwright;

god and judge of the dead, husband and brother of Isis;

framework supporting a float, extending outside from the side of the boat to increase stability.

We’ll be late for church. But this is good for now.

nictitate, v. to wink;

nidiculous is when the birds want to stay in the nest a while before leaving. nidifugous is when they leave the nest soon after hatching.

Niflheim was, in Norse mythology, a misty dark realm ruled over by Hel.

Niger-Congo, a family of African languages spoken from Senegal to Kenya, and over most of equatorial and south Africa, and having as branches West Atlantic, Mande’ Gur, Kwa, Benue-Congo, Adama-Eastern.