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• Sim427 commented on the word Skein

  Skein

  1 or less commonly skean or skeane \ˈskān \ : a loosely coiled length of yarn or thread wound on a reel

  2 : something suggesting the twists or coils of a skein : TANGLE

  3 : a flock of wildfowl (such as geese or ducks) in flight

  Definition of Skein (Entry 2 of 2)

  transitive verb

  : to wind into skeins

  skein yarn

  September 23, 2018

• Sim427 commented on the word sporades

  The certainty of space, increase, freedom, futurity,

  In space, the sporades, the scatter’d islands, the stars—on the firm earth, the

  lands, my

  lands;

  Walt Whitman - American Feuillage

  September 22, 2018

• Sim427 commented on the word windlass

  The

  States,

  each for itself—the money-makers;

  Factories, machinery, the mechanical forces—the windlass, lever, pulley—All

  certainties,

  The certainty of space, increase, freedom, futurity,

  In space, the sporades, the scatter’d islands, the stars—on the firm earth, the

  lands, my

  lands;

  Walt Whitman - American Feuillage

  September 22, 2018

• Sim427 commented on the word windlass

  I love the 'oblique approach' definition of this word! That's a fantastic connotation and one I plan on using in my own writing!!

  September 22, 2018

• Sim427 commented on the word sachem

  The sachem blowing the smoke first toward the sun and then toward the earth,

  The drama of the scalp-dance enacted with painted faces and guttural exclamations,

  The setting out of the war-party—the long and stealthy march,

  The single-file—the swinging hatchets—the surprise and slaughter of enemies;

  Walt Whitman - American Feuillage

  September 22, 2018

• Sim427 commented on the word capstan

  The departing ships, when the sailors heave at the capstan;

  —Evening—me in my room—the setting sun,

  The setting summer sun shining in my open window, showing the swarm of flies, suspended,

  balancing

  in the air in the centre of the room, darting athwart, up and down, casting swift shadows

  in

  specks

  on the opposite wall, where the shine is;

  Walt Whitman - American Feuillage

  September 22, 2018

• Sim427 commented on the word feuillage

  feuillage

  nm foliage, leaves pl

  https://mobile-dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/feuillage

  AMERICA always!

  Always our own feuillage!

  Always Florida’s green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana!

  Walt Whitman - American Feuillage

  September 22, 2018

• Sim427 commented on the word synecdoche

  Nevertheless, historical priority does not seem to me a sufficient reason to explain why the word fascism became a synecdoche, that is, a word that could be used for different totalitarian movements.

  -Umberto Eco

  September 21, 2018

• Sim427 commented on the word appellation

  “True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”

  ― George Washington

  September 21, 2018