[Ken-Daminated]

Entropy-
The tendency for all matter and energy in the universe to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity.

[ManOfSteal]

hotness:

n 1: the presence of heat [syn: heat, high temperature] [ant: coldness] 2: a state of sexual arousal [syn: horniness, hot pants] 3: a hot spiciness [syn: pepperiness] 4: Slang used by ManOfSteal at the 'NN [New Hotness!]

[OwlBoy]

Lonely

a. Without companions; lone.

b. Characterized by aloneness; solitary.




-Owl

[keekeeree]

autonomy:
1 : the quality or state of being self-governing; especially: the right of self-government
2 : self-directing freedom and especially moral independence

[ghporter]

obscured:

Made obscure; darkened, dimmed; hidden from the sight or perception. Also: fallen into obscurity.

(Thank you OED!)

[RAILhead]

newfangled -- adj.

1. New and often needlessly novel.
2. Fond of novelty.

Maury

[E's Lil Theorem]

theorem

n

1: a proposition deducible from basic postulates
2: an idea accepted as a demonstrable truth

[Scientist]

proprioception - noun

1. The unconscious perception of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body itself.

2. The ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts

[badidea]

Wolperdinger

- animal

- Wolperdingers are predominately found in eastern and southern Bavaria, but also in Austria and Liechtenstein. Some individual and extremely adapted specimens are found around the world, i.e. the Australian Marsupial Wolperdinger (wolpus saccus simplex), or the Russian Porcupine Wolperdinger (wolpus spiculum ex oriente), just to mention two. Viewed from an overall perspective, the Wolperdinger's adaptability is quite surprising. Species have been sighted that are capable of running, or jumping, or flying, or even swimming, and some of them come with or without horns and hoofs, some races have manifested all of these characteristics at once.

Since Wolperdingers are quite shy and only venture from their caves at night, if at all, these animals are commonly hunted at midnight when the moon is full. Moonlight is sufficient for humans to visually recognise their victims, but Wolperdingers are blinded by light on their search for food. Hunting outfits usually encompass a box drop trap and a root wood club. Even smaller specimens are extremely valiant and defend themselves and their burrows till death. Severe snap and scratch wounds arising from battles between man and animal are not seldom. I myself lost the finger tip of my left index finger in a scrimmage with a specimen about as large as a rabbit, but the Wolperdinger got away. Inexperienced non-Bavarians are thus urgently advised to refrain from unauthorised hunting. Slain specimens are sometimes displayed in taverns, they are even found in the "Jagdmuseum" (hunting museum) in Munich.

[malvolio]

callipygian
adj : pertaining to or having finely developed buttocks;

Learn it, use it.

[MaxPower2k3]

caterwauling
intr.v.
1. To cry or screech like a cat in heat.
2. To make a shrill, discordant sound.
3. To have a noisy argument.

n.
A shrill, discordant sound.

[Xeo]

frog
n.

1. Any of numerous tailless, aquatic, semiaquatic, or terrestrial amphibians of the order Anura and especially of the family Ranidae, characteristically having a smooth moist skin, webbed feet, and long hind legs adapted for leaping.
2. A wedge-shaped, horny prominence in the sole of a horse's hoof.
3. A loop fastened to a belt to hold a tool or weapon.
4. An ornamental looped braid or cord with a button or knot for fastening the front of a garment.
5. A device on intersecting railroad tracks that permits wheels to cross the junction.
6. A spiked or perforated device used to support stems in a flower arrangement.
7. The nut of a violin bow.
8. Informal. Hoarseness or phlegm in the throat.
9. Offensive Slang. Used as a disparaging term for a French person.

[edit: I was just trying to be funny by picking a word that isn't special, but there are several of those meanings that I didn't know before.]

[effgee]

bizarre

adj : conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "this thread is a lot more bizarre than your average lounge chatter"; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "outre and affected stage antics" [syn: eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre]

[effgee]

Originally posted by Xeo:
frog
n.

1. Any of numerous tailless, aquatic, semiaquatic, or terrestrial amphibians of the order Anura and especially of the family Ranidae, characteristically having a smooth moist skin, webbed feet, and long hind legs adapted for leaping.
2. A wedge-shaped, horny prominence in the sole of a horse's hoof.
3. A loop fastened to a belt to hold a tool or weapon.
4. An ornamental looped braid or cord with a button or knot for fastening the front of a garment.
5. A device on intersecting railroad tracks that permits wheels to cross the junction.
6. A spiked or perforated device used to support stems in a flower arrangement.
   
7. The nut of a violin bow.
8. Informal. Hoarseness or phlegm in the throat.
9. Offensive Slang. Used as a disparaging term for a French person.

[edit: I was just trying to be funny by picking a word that isn't special, but there are several of those meanings that I didn't know before.]

Q: "What's a frog?"
A: "A frog is the nut of a violin bow"

[Xeo]

Originally posted by effgee:
Q: "What's a frog?"
A: "A frog is the nut of a violin bow"

Actually 2-7 all were new to me.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by effgee:
Q: "What's a frog?"
A: "A frog is the nut of a violin bow"

So what about female violins ?

-t

[effgee]

Originally posted by turtle777:
So what about female violins ?

-t

And why does it have only one nut to begin with - poor bow.




And yes, 2-7 were new to me as well. 7 looked especially weird since it seems to explain one unsual term with another. Or maybe it's just unusual to me since my knowledge about violins pretty much ends with the ability to tell them apart from an anvil.

[malvolio]

Originally posted by Xeo:
Actually 2-7 all were new to me.

I knew 3 and 4, not sure where I learned them though. From reading War and Peace, maybe?

[ghporter]

Originally posted by Xeo:
frog
n.

1. Any of numerous tailless, aquatic, semiaquatic, or terrestrial amphibians of the order Anura and especially of the family Ranidae, characteristically having a smooth moist skin, webbed feet, and long hind legs adapted for leaping.
2. A wedge-shaped, horny prominence in the sole of a horse's hoof.
3. A loop fastened to a belt to hold a tool or weapon.
4. An ornamental looped braid or cord with a button or knot for fastening the front of a garment.
5. A device on intersecting railroad tracks that permits wheels to cross the junction.
6. A spiked or perforated device used to support stems in a flower arrangement.
7. The nut of a violin bow.
8. Informal. Hoarseness or phlegm in the throat.
9. Offensive Slang. Used as a disparaging term for a French person.

[edit: I was just trying to be funny by picking a word that isn't special, but there are several of those meanings that I didn't know before.]

I somehow knew all but #2 and #7. Not enough time around ferriers or musicians, I guess. It's my weird, "Trivial Persuit" oriented memory that lets me keep these things. Don't ask what I had for dinner Sunday; I'd have a hard time telling you. But where the sheet steel gageing system came from, or why they call a graduate's hat a "mortar board," or the correct name of a system of sanitary drains (a "soil stack")-I'm all over that.