Word of the Day

[Whistler]

this guy has a registrant and a page turner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lniaqocbLjM

[Laser Jock]

Oh, hey, that reminds me of calcant: the person who pumps the bellows for old-style organs with bellows.

(A while back I got to see a great performance on an organ with all-manual linkages and an actual bellows, and afterward got to go back in the organ and pump the bellows myself. It was pretty fun.)

[Whistler]

cool! I hear the all-manual tracker organs are basically marvels of engineering.

[S.A.M.]

Pemmican - a concentrated mixture of fat and protein used as a nutritious food.

[Digit]

I see that mentioned at nutraloaf.

[Katya]

fire whirl - a tornado-like sign of an extreme wildfire

[Tally M.]

fire whirl - a tornado-like sign of an extreme wildfire

That reminds me of reading "Young Men and Fire" in English class. I hated that book.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

It makes me think of Sharknado.

[UffishThought]

It makes me think of Sharknado.

Not as bad-good as Sharktopus. Just saying.

[Katya]

incipit - the first few words of the opening line of a poem, song, or book; the opening notes of a musical composition

[Katya]

shillelagh (shi-LAY-lee) - a wooden walking stick and club or cudgel, typically made from a stout knotty stick with a large knob at the top

[Marduk]

shillelagh (shi-LAY-lee) - a wooden walking stick and club or cudgel, typically made from a stout knotty stick with a large knob at the top

You need to play more RPG's.

[Katya]

shillelagh (shi-LAY-lee) - a wooden walking stick and club or cudgel, typically made from a stout knotty stick with a large knob at the top

You need to play more RPG's.

I beat you with my shillelagh for insulting my lack of RPG experience! (Also, that explains how the podcaster I was listening to knew the word when I had never heard it.)

[Katya]

ukase - An edict of the Czarist Russian government; An arbitrary command

From the Russian указ

[Katya]

suzerain - A sovereign or state having some control over another state that is internally autonomous; a feudal overlord

[Giovanni Schwartz]

That word is in Jesus the Christ! Although the form used there is "suzerainty." Fortunately, as I was reading, my companion had a dictionary, so I was able to be enlightened.

[Portia]

capitation

1. a numbering or assessing by the head.

2. a poll tax.

3. a fee or payment of a uniform amount for each person.

From a report about physician compensation.

[Katya]

teknonymy - The practice of referring to parents by the names of their children. (I.e., after your first child is born, your name becomes X's Mom or X's Dad.)

[S.A.M.]

perspicacity - acute mental vision or discernment

http://www.fatcyclist.com/2013/08/29/ho ... ling-team/

[Emiliana]

teknonymy - The practice of referring to parents by the names of their children. (I.e., after your first child is born, your name becomes X's Mom or X's Dad.)

Cool! This is sometimes done in Tanzania but I didn't know there was a name for it!