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Post by bleu on Apr 6, 2021 8:31:58 GMT
Carabidologist: studies Carabids, this large and diverse family, mainly nocturnal predatory ground Beetles, which includes Bombardier Beetles, sand Beetles and tiger Beetles.
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Post by seven on Apr 6, 2021 20:29:45 GMT
Alamagoozlum: originally Maple Syrup. Today almost entirely made from some Province for these well-informed mixologists; who knows their old fashion cocktails.
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Post by whitewolf on Apr 9, 2021 11:19:58 GMT
Inenarrable: doesn't exactly trip off anyone's tongue, which may have contributed toward rarity in modern English.
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Post by tori on Apr 10, 2021 13:16:12 GMT
Metoposcopy: medieval method for assessment and related techniques. Like Chiromancy (divination using our hand) and Podomancy (Prognostication from someone's foot condition). This word came via Late Latin from Greece and derives this Greek word: Metopon (forehead).
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Post by bleu on Apr 13, 2021 8:09:58 GMT
Phantasmagoria: from moving slide projector (then called: "Magic Lantern") backwards and forwards on rails. Figures were made for increasing and decreasing in size, advance and retreat, dissolve, vanish, and pass into each other. Images were projected on some translucent screen between audience and stage, so they appeared suspended in air.
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Post by madmax on Apr 17, 2021 11:31:07 GMT
Incarnadine: lovely word, with some fine flowing cadence, but often rare. Surviving only in poetic or elevated writing. In adjective, refering about blood-red or crimson colour. In verb, this means rendering something in colour.
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Post by tori on Apr 17, 2021 12:04:00 GMT
Rhapsodomancy: this divination form, where guidance got sought through chance selection; within some literature passage. Often from opening your book and selecting first line seen. Books originally formed this verse and technique for bibliomancy. This art and practice for divination used in books.
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Post by trinity on Apr 22, 2021 13:37:26 GMT
Incunabulum: means any book published, before beginning in Sixteenth Century. Better known in this plural form Incunabula. Though rare, this survives, since there isn't much interest in early printed works. This conjures up some image on dusty shelves with dusty and ancient books. No doubt, overseen from dusty and ancient collectors.
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Post by trinity on Apr 29, 2021 13:07:05 GMT
Janus-faced: means somebody or some object, being Janus-faced; having two contrasting aspects. In particular, about someone may be deceitful and figuratively two-faced. "Life is Janus-faced, and the humorist invests his characters with a double mask; they stand for comedy as well as for tragedy".
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Post by whitewolf on Apr 30, 2021 10:14:45 GMT
Kinetoscope: in early 1890s, Thomas Alva Edison experimented with ways for linking his; then new phonograph with equally new moving pictures.
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Post by sonico on Apr 30, 2021 15:05:57 GMT
Infundibulum: Latin word for funnel.
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Post by trinity on May 6, 2021 13:03:39 GMT
Interrobang: combination for both exclamation marks and question marks. This were invented in 1962 through Martin Speckter's advocacy, New York head in advertising agency. Martin K Speckter Associates, which handled promotion for this Wall Street Journal, among other clients.
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Post by whitewolf on May 7, 2021 10:13:25 GMT
Labretifery: this rare word used in practice for wearing labrets.
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Post by sonico on May 7, 2021 15:14:24 GMT
Sphragistics: although rare and specialist, this wildly used in scientific study for seals or signet rings. Has own place in these fields for Decorative Arts and Archaeology.
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Post by trinity on May 13, 2021 13:03:22 GMT
Logan Stone: Britain has several celebrated examples for this odd geological formation, otherwise called: "a rocking stone". Which can be moved back and forth by applying varying amounts in force.
Logan stones were formed through selective weathering for layered rocks. Like having this lower softer layer being worn away from frost, rain and wind. Until only this thin neck remained.
This word came from English dialect log, which means 'to rock' (in some parts within Britain, these stones are called logging stones). This might have some link with Danish 'Logre', like tail wagging; which could suggest came from Norse origin.
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