caparison: a covering, or cloth, laid over a horse or other animal, especially a pack animal, or horse of state. In modern times, it is used mainly for decoration in parades and for historical reenactments.
sarsen stones: stone blocks found in quantity on Salisbury Plain, the Marlborough Downs, in Kent, and in smaller quantities in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset and Hampshire. They are the remains of a cap of tertiary sandstone which once covered much of southern England. It is a dense, hard rock created fromsand bound by a silica cement, making it a kind of silicified sandstone
hypnagogic: that induces sleep; soporific, somniferous; of the drowsiness that precedes sleep, or of the images perceived in that state
usufruct: From ancient Roman law (and now a part of many civil law systems), "usufruct" means the rights to the product of another's property. For example, a farmer may give a right of "usufruct" of his land to a neighbor, thus enabling that neighbor to sow and reap the harvest of that land.
sarsen stones: stone blocks found in quantity on Salisbury Plain, the Marlborough Downs, in Kent, and in smaller quantities in Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset and Hampshire. They are the remains of a cap of tertiary sandstone which once covered much of southern England. It is a dense, hard rock created fromsand bound by a silica cement, making it a kind of silicified sandstone
hypnagogic: that induces sleep; soporific, somniferous; of the drowsiness that precedes sleep, or of the images perceived in that state
usufruct: From ancient Roman law (and now a part of many civil law systems), "usufruct" means the rights to the product of another's property. For example, a farmer may give a right of "usufruct" of his land to a neighbor, thus enabling that neighbor to sow and reap the harvest of that land.
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I vaguely remember hypnagogic.Talking of new words... what's my word-of-the-lecture? is it still callipygian? I'll try to fit that in somewhere :)
callipygian it is.... until you use it and then I'll think of a new word!
I'm enjoying all your new words, most of which I've never heard. My all time favourite word that I learned years ago as a teenager (ironically) is flibbertygibbet...
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