words

Importune

1. (v.) To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent demands, unreasonable or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.

2. (v.) To import; to signify.

3. (v. i.) To require; to demand.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Michel de Montaigne

To fill again,fill up
Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding.

“His words replete with guile” Milton

When he of wine was replete at his feast. Chaucer.

In heads replete with thoughts of other men. Cowper.

Replete To fill completely, or to satiety. [R.]

I just discovered this Russian philologist
on you tube.

_{My name is Marina Orlova and I am a philologist (one who studies linguistics and etymology). I love to discuss the origins of words.}
http://www.youtube.com/user/hotforwords

Entwist – v. t. To twist or wreathe round; to intwine. Shakespeare.

Wind
2. To entwist; to infold; to encircle.

Sleep, and I will wind thee in arms. Shakespeare

4. Power of respiration; breath.

If my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. Shakepeare

From ARTFL Project: 1913 Webster’s
Revised Unabridged Dictionary

pneuma

MEANING:
noun: Spirit, soul.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek pneuma (breath, wind, spirit). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pneu- (to breathe) that is also the source of pneumatic, pneumonia,

I just found out today that a friend died this past week from pneumonia. I got an email inviting me to the memorial. I thought it was interesting that the next email I got in my inbox was ‘a word a day’. The word today was ‘Pneuma’ meaning ‘breath, wind and spirit’.

Gleam

Gleam, n.
1. A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.

Transient unexpected gleams of joi. Addison.

2. To shine; to cast light; to glitter. Syn. —To Gleam, Glimmer, Glitter. To gleam denotes a faint but distinct emission of light. To glimmer describes an indistinct and unsteady giving of light. To glitter imports a brightness that is intense, but varying.

The morning light gleams upon the earth; a distant taper glimmers through the mist; a dewdrop glitters in the sun.

Dying eyes gleamed forth their ashy lights. Shakespeare

Wrest

1. To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence;
to pull of force away by, or as if by,
violent wringing or twisting.

The secret wrested from me. Milton.

Exiguous
Function: adjective
Excessively scanty : inadequate

Wrest an exiguous existence from the land
Exiguous evidence

_{Artfl 1913
Ex}ig”u*ous Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.

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Sack, a sweet wine fortified with brandy (known today as sherry), was most popular with the Elizabethans. Shakespeare’s Prince Hal and the lads at the Boar’s-head Tavern in Eastcheap were impassioned by the scrumptious drink.

Give me a cup of sack, boy.
Shakespeare