Too many notes..
I used to worry that I only had a set amount of words that I could write in my life, and that once I ran out that was it. And that I had wasted my allotment of words writing grocery lists and quick notes to people....
Beans are in flower -- A suggested explanation of a person's stupidity. It was formerly believed that the scent of the flowering bean induced stupidity in the recipient of it.
-- Albert Hyamson's Dictionary of English Phrases, 1922
*Hmmmm, I know plenty of people that could use this as a valid excuse...
Metromania -- A species of insanity in which the patient evinces a rage for reciting poetry. From Greek metreon, metre, and mainomai, to be insane.
-- Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c. 1850
*So, does this mean that the person compulsively recites poetry (something many babybats are known to do) or that they become angered by anyone else reciting poetry? I know there have been a few open mic poetry nights that I've felt this, but not for *any* poetry.
Critical Days -- Wherein the disease comes to its crisis, the odd days and 14th especially.
-- Elisha Cole's English Dictionary, 1713
*So, if someone is sick they should watch out for odd days and the 14th of the month. Wait, today is an odd day. Darn.
Moon's Sphere -- In the Ptolemaic system, the moon was fixed in the innermost of nine spheres which revolved around the earth. the inflected genitive [moon's sphere] occurs several times in early plays [such as] A Midsummer Night's Dream.
-- C. H. Herford's Notes on the Works of Shakespeare, 1902
*There is an interesting fact on the rest of the page about when Columbus threatened the New World natives with making the moon disappear if they didn't release him and his crew from captivity. Apparently, due to his experience with the navigator's transom and sextant he knew when a lunar eclipse was going to happen. The natives ignored him until the eclipse began, at which point they brought him and his crew food, released them, and begged him to bring the moon back. Which he did. Yay science!
Catching-time -- It is called catchin' time when in a wet season they catch every minute of favourable weather for field work.
-- Georgina Jackson's Shropshire Word-Book, 1879
-- A wet season in which people working in the fields are caught by frequent showers.
-- Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
a'n't -- The phonetically natural and philologically logical shortening of am not, especially in a'n't I? Amn't is ugly; ain't is illiterate, and on other grounds inferior to a'n't. Note that a'n't I offers only two different stresses of emphasis, whereas am I not affords three.
-- Eric Partridge's Chamber of Horrors: Book of Usage and Abusage, 1954
*Again, another book I would love to get my hands on. Other odd contractions include: "wun't" for will not, "worn't" for was not and were not, "cassn't" for canst not, "I'st" for I should and I shall, "shatn't" for shall not, "n'as" for never was, "nathmore" for never the more, "nathless" for nevertheless, and finally "maun't" for may not.
Phrenology -- Craniology; the examination of the different parts of the external surface of the cranium in order to deduce from thence a knowledge of different intellectual and moral dispositions.
-- Robley Dunglison's Dictionary of Medical Science, 1844
-- This word ought to mean psychology or mental philosophy, but has been appropriated by craniologists on account of the light in which their observations of the convolutions of the brain and corresponding elevations of the skull are supposed to throw on the nature and province of our different faculties.
-- William Fleming's Vocabulary of Philosophy, 1857
Illaqueate -- To entangle; to entrap; to ensnare.
-- William Grimshaw's Ladies Lexicon and Parlour Companion, 1854
Succubus -- Some authors mean by it a female phantom with which a man, in his sleep, sometimes may believe he has intercourse, as incubus, with which a female may dream she is similarly situate
...Incubus, a sensation of a heavy weight at the epigastrum during sleep ... The sensation of suffocation was formerly ascribed to the person's being possessed. The disease requires no particular treatment.
-- Robley Dunglison's Dictionary of Medical Science, 1844
Mechanician -- An artisan; one who is versed in mechanics; from French mechanicien.
-- C. A. M. Fennell's Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases, 1964
Dictionatical -- Such as the dictionary authorizes or approves. "I don't think that work is dictionatical.
-- J. C. Ruppenthal's Word-List from Kansas, 1916
Sermocination -- The act or practice of making speeches.
-- Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
Heart-scald -- Heartburn; figuratively a great disappointment. Also heart-scad.
-- Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
Foot-ale -- Ale given to the older workmen by an apprentice or new hand as an entrance fee on taking his place amongst them.
-- Georgina Jackson's Shropshire Word-Book, 1879
-- An old custom amongst miners, when a man enters first into work, to pay his first days wages for ale.
-- William Hooson's Miner's Dictionary, 1747
-- A stranger will generally be asked to 'stand his foot-ale'.
-- A. Benoni Evan's Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs, 1881
-- Drink given by the seller to the buyer at a cattle fair.
-- D. Nicholson's Manuscript Collection of Caithness [Scotland] Words
-- A fine paid by a young man when found courting out of his own district.
-- William Dickenson's Glossary of the Cumberland District, 1899
Hundred-pound Gentleman -- A hundred-pound gentleman was a term of contempt implying pretentious poverty. King Lear.
-- C. H. Herford's Glossary of the Works of Shakespeare, 1902
Abliguration -- A prodigal spending on meat and drink.
-- Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
*March 16th is also noted as the day of death of William Banting, undertaker, cabinetmaker, and octogenerian who published the first pamphlets on a diet plan that worked....
Burying-Biscuit -- A small sponge cake formerly eaten at funerals and sent out to friends, as wedding cake is now; Lancashire.
-- Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
*Now, instead, we just invite everyone over to eat and get drunk...
Monkey-Board -- The step at the rear of an omnibus on which teh conductor stands.
-- Robert Hunter's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, 1894
There, all caught up with the words. Still feel nauseous. Blah.
Beans are in flower -- A suggested explanation of a person's stupidity. It was formerly believed that the scent of the flowering bean induced stupidity in the recipient of it.
-- Albert Hyamson's Dictionary of English Phrases, 1922
*Hmmmm, I know plenty of people that could use this as a valid excuse...
Metromania -- A species of insanity in which the patient evinces a rage for reciting poetry. From Greek metreon, metre, and mainomai, to be insane.
-- Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c. 1850
*So, does this mean that the person compulsively recites poetry (something many babybats are known to do) or that they become angered by anyone else reciting poetry? I know there have been a few open mic poetry nights that I've felt this, but not for *any* poetry.
Critical Days -- Wherein the disease comes to its crisis, the odd days and 14th especially.
-- Elisha Cole's English Dictionary, 1713
*So, if someone is sick they should watch out for odd days and the 14th of the month. Wait, today is an odd day. Darn.
Moon's Sphere -- In the Ptolemaic system, the moon was fixed in the innermost of nine spheres which revolved around the earth. the inflected genitive [moon's sphere] occurs several times in early plays [such as] A Midsummer Night's Dream.
-- C. H. Herford's Notes on the Works of Shakespeare, 1902
*There is an interesting fact on the rest of the page about when Columbus threatened the New World natives with making the moon disappear if they didn't release him and his crew from captivity. Apparently, due to his experience with the navigator's transom and sextant he knew when a lunar eclipse was going to happen. The natives ignored him until the eclipse began, at which point they brought him and his crew food, released them, and begged him to bring the moon back. Which he did. Yay science!
Catching-time -- It is called catchin' time when in a wet season they catch every minute of favourable weather for field work.
-- Georgina Jackson's Shropshire Word-Book, 1879
-- A wet season in which people working in the fields are caught by frequent showers.
-- Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
a'n't -- The phonetically natural and philologically logical shortening of am not, especially in a'n't I? Amn't is ugly; ain't is illiterate, and on other grounds inferior to a'n't. Note that a'n't I offers only two different stresses of emphasis, whereas am I not affords three.
-- Eric Partridge's Chamber of Horrors: Book of Usage and Abusage, 1954
*Again, another book I would love to get my hands on. Other odd contractions include: "wun't" for will not, "worn't" for was not and were not, "cassn't" for canst not, "I'st" for I should and I shall, "shatn't" for shall not, "n'as" for never was, "nathmore" for never the more, "nathless" for nevertheless, and finally "maun't" for may not.
Phrenology -- Craniology; the examination of the different parts of the external surface of the cranium in order to deduce from thence a knowledge of different intellectual and moral dispositions.
-- Robley Dunglison's Dictionary of Medical Science, 1844
-- This word ought to mean psychology or mental philosophy, but has been appropriated by craniologists on account of the light in which their observations of the convolutions of the brain and corresponding elevations of the skull are supposed to throw on the nature and province of our different faculties.
-- William Fleming's Vocabulary of Philosophy, 1857
Illaqueate -- To entangle; to entrap; to ensnare.
-- William Grimshaw's Ladies Lexicon and Parlour Companion, 1854
Succubus -- Some authors mean by it a female phantom with which a man, in his sleep, sometimes may believe he has intercourse, as incubus, with which a female may dream she is similarly situate
...Incubus, a sensation of a heavy weight at the epigastrum during sleep ... The sensation of suffocation was formerly ascribed to the person's being possessed. The disease requires no particular treatment.
-- Robley Dunglison's Dictionary of Medical Science, 1844
Mechanician -- An artisan; one who is versed in mechanics; from French mechanicien.
-- C. A. M. Fennell's Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases, 1964
Dictionatical -- Such as the dictionary authorizes or approves. "I don't think that work is dictionatical.
-- J. C. Ruppenthal's Word-List from Kansas, 1916
Sermocination -- The act or practice of making speeches.
-- Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
Heart-scald -- Heartburn; figuratively a great disappointment. Also heart-scad.
-- Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
Foot-ale -- Ale given to the older workmen by an apprentice or new hand as an entrance fee on taking his place amongst them.
-- Georgina Jackson's Shropshire Word-Book, 1879
-- An old custom amongst miners, when a man enters first into work, to pay his first days wages for ale.
-- William Hooson's Miner's Dictionary, 1747
-- A stranger will generally be asked to 'stand his foot-ale'.
-- A. Benoni Evan's Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs, 1881
-- Drink given by the seller to the buyer at a cattle fair.
-- D. Nicholson's Manuscript Collection of Caithness [Scotland] Words
-- A fine paid by a young man when found courting out of his own district.
-- William Dickenson's Glossary of the Cumberland District, 1899
Hundred-pound Gentleman -- A hundred-pound gentleman was a term of contempt implying pretentious poverty. King Lear.
-- C. H. Herford's Glossary of the Works of Shakespeare, 1902
Abliguration -- A prodigal spending on meat and drink.
-- Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755
*March 16th is also noted as the day of death of William Banting, undertaker, cabinetmaker, and octogenerian who published the first pamphlets on a diet plan that worked....
Burying-Biscuit -- A small sponge cake formerly eaten at funerals and sent out to friends, as wedding cake is now; Lancashire.
-- Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
*Now, instead, we just invite everyone over to eat and get drunk...
Monkey-Board -- The step at the rear of an omnibus on which teh conductor stands.
-- Robert Hunter's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, 1894
There, all caught up with the words. Still feel nauseous. Blah.