Monday, July 28, 2014

dudgeon

dudgeon (plural dudgeons)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of wood used especially in the handles of knives.
  2. (obsolete) A hilt made of this wood.
  3. (archaic) A dagger which has a dudgeon hilt.
at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

talk nineteen to the dozen

  to speak rapidly and without stopping

  • abstemious
    Marked by, or spent in, abstinence ; as, an abstemious life.
  • Nureongi
    Nureongi (누렁이) and Hwangu (황구; 黃狗) are Korean terms meaning "Yellow Dog" used to refer to tannish mongrel or landrace of dog in...
  • n-gram vs. engram
    Engrams are a hypothetical means by which memory traces are stored as biophysical or biochemical changes in the brain (and other neural...