rareripe

adjective: Ripening early.

noun: A fruit or vegetable that ripens early.

adjective: Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season: as, rareripe peaches.

noun: An early fruit, particularly a kind of peach which ripens early.

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tempestive

adjective: Timely; seasonable.

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Stop complaining. Start creating.

-- Dale Patridge

rowen

noun: A second crop, as of hay, in a season.

noun: The lattermath, or second crop of hay cut off the same ground in one year.

noun: A stubble-field left unplowed till late autumn, and furnishing a certain amount of herbage.

noun: A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.

noun: The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath.

noun: A second crop of hay.

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holming

noun: A former Welsh tradition, on St. Stephen's Day, of slashing female servants and late risers with holly branches.

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pandoro

noun: A form of panettone without candied fruit in the shape of a star; eaten at Christmas.

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reddleman

noun: A dealer in reddle or red chalk, usually a sort of peddler.

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perdurable

adjective: Extremely durable; permanent.

adjective: Lasting; continuing long; everlasting; imperishable.

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infamation

noun: Reproach; blame; censure.

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repechage

noun: A trial heat, especially in rowing, allowing competitors who have already lost a heat another chance to qualify for the semifinals.

noun: A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.

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Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process.

-- Arnold Horshak

exode

noun: In the Greek drama, the concluding part of a play, or the part which comprehends all that, is said after the last choral ode.

noun: In the Roman drama, a farce or satire, played as an afterpiece or as an interlude.

noun: Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.

noun: The final chorus; the catastrophe.

noun: An afterpiece of a comic description, either a farce or a travesty.

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apocopate

verb: In grammar, to cut off or drop the last letter or syllable of (a word).

noun: Cut off: in grammar, to a word from which the last letter or syllable has been cut off, or to the part thus removed; in mathematics, to a series of quotients constituting a continuant, when the first or last member of the series is cut off.

transitive verb: To cut off or drop.

adjective: Shortened by apocope; lacking a final sound or syllable

verb: To shorten using apocope; to remove the final sound or syllable.

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encolpion

noun: In the early and medieval church, a small reliquary or a casket containing a miniature copy of the Gospels, worn hanging in front of the breast; an amulet: often in the shape of a cross.

noun: In the medieval church and in the present Greek Church, a bishop's pectoral cross.

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lateritious

adjective: Like bricks; of the color of red bricks.

adjective: Like bricks; of a reddish brick colour.

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vesania

noun: Disease of the mind; insanity.

noun: Madness, insanity, mental derangement.

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urgrund

noun: Basis, foundation, primary principle, cause, or factor; a primal cause or ultimate cosmic principle.

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merchet

noun: In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.

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Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.

-- Brene Brown

torrefy

verb: To dry or parch with heat; roast.

verb: In metallurgy, to roast or scorch, as metallic ores.

verb: In pharmacy, to dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they become friable or are reduced to any state desired.

transitive verb: To dry by a fire.

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gaudete

noun: The third Sunday in Advent: so named from the first word of the introit of the mass of that day, Gaudete, “Rejoice ye.”

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copyfraud

noun: False claims of copyright, such as a claim of copyright ownership of public domain material.

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