adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox:
The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades.
Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!"
It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line.
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A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.
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(n.) the knowledge that something inadvisable would be enjoyable, generally meant to be resisted to avoid consequences
One of the most plentiful meats around. For some it is a dietary staple. Others a foreign delicacy.
A document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exposing him as an alien and pointing him out for special reprobation and outrage.
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A form of incantation to conjure up a hope that is to be exorcised later by inattention.
(adv.) not literally
(n.) sadness which has an almost crippling effect
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probably the force that led you to this online dictionary
(n.) the act of hurling someone out of a window. No, that's actually it.
n. One who worships at the shrine of his ancestral cell
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After years of education they gave you a confy boss chair, but they also make you shame to sit on it.
You have to be in field with workers to whip them.
Definition: I shouldnt look like lazy, athough i look like an idiot on foot.
You have to be in field with workers to whip them.
Definition: I shouldnt look like lazy, athough i look like an idiot on foot.
(n.) that which is other and distinct from humanity, either in the sense of being a feral beast, some sort of supernatural entity, or craig
one who enjoys enjoyable things (probably gay)
(n.) a chemical substance used to regulate one's more eccentric behaviors. no, booze does not count.
(n.) a dining room cabinet or sideboard, short enough to serve as a secondary table, in which one (presumably one unwilling to admit they have a problem) may store their booze.
the name 'credenza' comes to us from italian, and means 'trusted one,' apparently because these cabinets were where food was taste-tested for poison before being presented to the pope
the name 'credenza' comes to us from italian, and means 'trusted one,' apparently because these cabinets were where food was taste-tested for poison before being presented to the pope
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