is a sesame plant.
Variations: beni, benis.
Friday 17 July 2009
volute
can be used as a noun meaning an 'ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center' or 'a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops' or as an adjective meaning 'in the shape of a coil' (WordNet).
Variations: volute, voluted, volutes, volutoid.
Variations: volute, voluted, volutes, volutoid.
ignitron
is 'a mercury-containing rectifier tube in which the arc is struck again at the beginning of each cycle by a special electrode separately energized by an auxiliary circuit; (Merriam-Webster).
Variations: ignitron, ignitrons.
quoif
is an alternative spelling of coif which can be used as a noun meaning either (dictionary.com):
- a hood-shaped cap, usually of white cloth and with extended sides, worn beneath a veil, as by nuns.
- any of various hoodlike caps, varying through the centuries in shape and purpose, worn by men and women.
- a cap similar to a skullcap, formerly worn by sergeants at law.
- Armor. a covering for the head and neck, made of leather, padded cloth, or mail.
- British. the rank or position of a sergeant at law.
Variations: coif, coifed, coifing, coifs, quoif, quoifed, quoifing, quoifs.
reif
has three definitions (Dictionary.com):
- plunder; booty; loot.
- robbery; piracy.
- the act of seizing booty.
Variations: reif, reifs.
ould
means 'old, aged, long-established' (wiktionary).
Variations: auld, aulder, auldest, ould, oulder, ouldest.
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