elfin-tree a tree dwarfed and gnarled by alpine climate. pultrusion a continuous-flow process for forming fiberglass, in which the glass fiber in liquid resin is drawn through a heated die which cures it. [< /pulling/ + /extrusion/.] pulveratricious (ornith. obs.) of or characteristic of those birds that bathe in dust; a dusty colour, as of their feathers. kukumakranka an amaryllidaceous bulb, /Gethyllis/ ssp., which bears white flowers in the summer, and in the winter pushes up through the earth an oblong fruit used medicinally in cordial, and to give a house its penetrating scent, likened to strawberry and to custard-apple. [prob. < Khoi.] clyssus (Parascelsian chem.) used in senses whose connections are obscure: the return of vital principles to their source; the union of principles through long digestion, especially those principles distilled from a single body; the vapours from deflagrating gunpowder or similar compounds of nitre. tide a span of time; an hour; a point in time; a fit time; an opportunity; a time in the course of the day, of the year, or of life; a canonical hour; a holy day.
Pilliver and the two codwares lead on, but it's time for dinner.
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Date: 2004-05-28 10:22 pm (UTC)*preeens*
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Date: 2004-05-29 05:08 pm (UTC)codware2: a pod-vegetable; from cod2 a bag, a husk, as in peascod, codpiece.
(And a pilliver is a codware1.)