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  • –noun

    1. delicate ornamental work of fine silver, gold, or other metal wires, esp. lacy jewelers' work of scrolls and arabesques.

    2. anything very delicate or fanciful: a filigree of frost.

    –adjective

    3. composed of or resembling filigree.

    –verb (used with object)

    4. to adorn with or form into filigree.

    -Dictionary.com

    February 8, 2009

  • –noun

    1. the introductory words or opening phrases in the text of a medieval manuscript or an early printed book.

    2. Music. the first words of a chanted liturgical text, as that of a Gregorian chant or certain medieval motets.

    -dictionary.com

    January 31, 2009

  • 5. Nautical.

    a. a flat termination to a stern, above the water line.

    b. framework running athwartships in way of the sternpost of a steel or iron vessel, used as a support for the frames of the counter.

    December 24, 2008

  • 3. Shipbuilding. to give sheer to (a hull).

    –noun

    4. a deviation or divergence, as of a ship from its course; swerve.

    5. Shipbuilding. the fore-and-aft upward curve of the hull of a vessel at the main deck or bulwarks.

    6. Nautical. the position in which a ship at anchor is placed to keep it clear of the anchor.

    December 24, 2008

  • (n.) - error, wrongdoing; a misunderstanding in which one thing is taken for another. "A term used by Harold Bloom to describe the process by which strong writers misread or misinterpret their literary predecessors so as to clear imaginative space for themselves. According to Bloom, every poem is a misprision or misconstrual of a hypothetical parent poem."

    December 12, 2008

  • (n.) - the study of abnormal form

    December 11, 2008

  • (n.) - disfiguring birth defects or malformations

    December 11, 2008

  • (adj.) more than perfect

    October 30, 2008

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