12 new words everyday

16/04/2025

#30980

APSIS

One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite,which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body,corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to theapogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higherapsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, theline of apsides.

#40261

HAYRACK

A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used inhauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.

#31345

FALCULATE

Curved and sharppointed, like a falcula, or claw of a falcon.

#65873

DUBITANCY

Doubt; uncertainty. [R.] Hammond.

#75645

JAN

One of intermediate order between angels and men.

#36013

PROCRASTINATOR

One who procrastinates, or defers the performance of anything.

#61771

CAGOT

One of a race inhabiting the valleys of the Pyrenees, who until1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They aresupposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.

#50117

TRUDGE

To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.And trudged to Rome upon my naked feet. Dryden.

#14986

DISFRANCHISEMENT

The act of disfranchising, or the state disfranchised;deprivation of privileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities.Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then todisfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.

#15553

PRIMUM MOBILE

In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolvingconcentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which wassupposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planetsin a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens,under Crystalline.The motions of the greatest persons in a government ought to be, asthe motions of the planets, under primum mobile. Bacon.

#11663

REMARKER

One who remarks.

#31957

OBLIGATORY

Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation;requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followedby on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier.As long as the law is obligatory, so long our obedience is due. Jer.Taylor.