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carbonado (kahr-buh-NEY-doh) - n., a dark aggregate of diamond particles used in drills.

Thanks, WikiMedia!

Also, meat or fish that is scored before grilling or broiling, but that's not as important as black diamonds right now. Carbonados (or carbonadoes, both plurals are used) are aggregates of diamond, graphite, and trace minerals, and typically found nowhere near crystalline diamond deposits, and most commonly in Central African Republic and in Brazil. It's not quite as hard crystal diamond, but it's more durable, thus its utility. We got the word from Portuguese, literal meaning carbonated (as opposed to the meat meaning, which is from Spanish carbonada, carbonized), from from carbone, carbon, from French, from Latin carbō, coal/charcoal.

---L.

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bast (BAST) - n., fiber from the inner bark of various plants used for cordage or matting.

Said plants include flax, hemp, jute, lime/linden, ramie, nettle, mulberry, and several others. Also sometimes used as a name for the inner bark aka phloem itself. The name goes back to Old English bæst, the inner bark of trees used to make ropes, of Germanic origin, after which the trail gets murky.

And that, actually, was the last word from Busman's Honeymoon, which I didn't have time to post before external obligations (followed by illness) took over. I should be back to regular posting now, though.

---L.

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incipit (noun)
(in-ˈsi-pət)

• the first part : beginning
specifically: the opening words of a text of a medieval manuscript or early printed book

"As in the title pages or main divisions of later printed books, incipits provide an occasion for display letters and a fanfare of calligraphic ornament." (Encyclopedia Britannica)

"The incipit of a text is the first few words of the text, employed as an identifying label. In a musical composition, an incipit is an initial sequence of notes, having the same purpose." (Wikipedia)

etymology: Latin, it begins, from incipere

Here is an example from the 1630s. The characters are formed with birds!

Beautifully ornamented book page in blues and reds and greens

(from the Public Domain Image Archive)

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Sachertorte is a chocolate sponge cake covered with chocolate glaze and filled with apricot jam.

The apricot jam is either under the glaze or between two sponge layers.

The cake was invented by the Austrian confectioner Franz Sacher, either in 1832 for the Austrian chancellor Klemens von Metternich, or in the 1840s.

You can read more, and see photos in this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachertorte#Reception

(sorry, RTF editor is acting up, can't hyperlink, etc.)

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Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Noetic (adjective)
noetic [noh-et-ik]

adjective
1. of or relating to the mind.
2. originating in or apprehended by the reason.

Origin: First recorded in 1645–55; from Greek noētikós “intelligent, intellectual” equivalent to nóē(sis) noesis + -tikos -tic

Example Sentences
Navy and founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in 1973, organized to sponsor research in the nature of consciousness.
From Reuters • Feb. 5, 2016

Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Sausalito, California, which pursues such topics as ESP and the mind.
From Time Magazine Archive

Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Sciences helped to fund S.R.I.'s Geller research, which was conducted largely by Puthoff and Russell Targ, who happens to be Editor Targ's son.
From Time Magazine Archive

Thus Plato and Plotinus call "Noetic work" that which the Yogi and the Shrotriya term Vidya.
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

Noetic quality.—Although so similar to states of feeling, mystical states seem to those who experience them to be also states of knowledge.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

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Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Noetic (adjective)

noetic [noh-et-ik]

adjective

1. of or relating to the mind.

2. originating in or apprehended by the reason.

Origin: First recorded in 1645–55; from Greek noētikós “intelligent, intellectual” equivalent to nóē(sis) noesis + -tikos -tic

Example Sentences

Navy and founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in 1973, organized to sponsor research in the nature of consciousness.

From Reuters • Feb. 5, 2016

Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Sausalito, California, which pursues such topics as ESP and the mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Sciences helped to fund S.R.I.'s Geller research, which was conducted largely by Puthoff and Russell Targ, who happens to be Editor Targ's son.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus Plato and Plotinus call "Noetic work" that which the Yogi and the Shrotriya term Vidya.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

Noetic quality.—Although so similar to states of feeling, mystical states seem to those who experience them to be also states of knowledge.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

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I arrived in Amsterdam two weeks ago to an afternoon of occasional drizzle, followed by a downpour as I wandered around Haarlem, discovering the sleeves of my raincoat had lost their waterproofing. But dry weather followed this xeric Coloradan and Europe experienced a heat dome for the next week and a half. Temperatures were only in the 80s Fahrenheit, but humidity made the days somewhat unpleasant. Most buildings in northern Europe don't have air conditioning, so even going to sleep could be a challenge.

After a particularly sweaty experience dragging 60kg of suitcases through three train stations and over the bumpy cobblestones of Antwerp in the intense heat, I had the excellent foresight to have booked a tour of Antwerp's underground canals, a delightfully cool (if somewhat stinky) tour. Three days later I telished in the cool and moist cellar air (full of high quality brettanomyces) of the Oud Beersel lambic brewery. My "bike to the forest and play ham radio" plans were also nicely timed to cool down with assistance from shady trees.

It's back to cool-with-rain this week, bookending my remarkably dry jaunt in Benelux. I'll be flying home tomorrow, and hopefully Colorado got some precipitation while I was away too.

Mood: quixotic
Location: Brussels
Music: life passing by a cafe

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Quick note that post-by-email and comment-by-email is (sometimes?) failing silently without actually posting right now! I'm pretty sure this is related to last night's shenanigans and will be fixed once Mark can finish the full fix for it, which he's working on, but if you've posted or replied by email in the last 24 hours, fish it out of your sent folder to check if it posted!

EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.

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achimophobia [āk-mə-ˈfō-bē-ə]

an intense and unreasonable fear of sharp objects such as scissors, knives, needles and pencils

example
The ideal candidate was 'courageous, confident and not suffering from aichmophobia, a fear of sharp objects'.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)

origin
from Greek aichmḗ "point of a spear, spear" + New Latin, from Late Latin, from Greek, from -phobos fearing, from phobos fear, flight

achimophobia

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Robby has managed to put in a temporary fix for the site errors and things failing to refresh or not showing up where they should! The permanent fix is going to need Mark's experience, and unfortunately -- seriously, this literally never fails -- Mark has been on an international flight all day, because of course he has. (Never. Fails. He and I are not allowed to both take vacation at once.)

The site will work just fine with the temporary fix in place, things just might be a little slow here and there. We'll keep you updated.

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We're aware of site traffic issues and are working to fix them for the people who are having problems! (The tactics the damn bot traffic uses are endlessly shifting, and they're really good at looking like real traffic, sigh.)

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riparian [ri-pair-ee-uhn, rahy-]

adjective:
of, relating to, or situated or dwelling on the bank of a river or other body of water

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Examples:

These rich ecosystems - including spring-fed streams, wetlands, riparian forests and oak woodlands - are vulnerable to declines in groundwater levels. (Ian James, How a water scientist hopes to save California habitats that could be pumped dry, Los Angeles Times, May 2024)

The bird can be seen in riparian areas, which are the transition zones between land and waterways such as rivers and streams. (Maura Fox, 'Super Bowl of birding:' 7 birds to watch for as millions fly through San Diego this spring, San Diego Union-Tribune, February 2024)

At the McGee Creek trailhead, rocky canyon slopes lead into gentler areas of streams and riparian forests. (Matt Ritter, Find the Real Super Blooms This Summer with the Ultimate Floral Road Trip, Sunset, March 2020)

Media coverage has described the Hangman Creek initiative as the largest riparian restoration effort in Spokane County's history and the first program of its kind in Eastern Washington, underscoring its clear departure from conventional restoration approaches. (Matt Ritter, World Habitat Day: Nigerian policy expert's model transforms US watershed restoration , The Guardian Nigeria, March 2020)

His reed pipe when applied to his lips gave out no melody, but a dismal wail; the sylvan and riparian intelligences no longer thronged the thicket-side to listen, but fled from the sound, as he knew by the stirred leaves and bent flowers. (Ambrose Bierce, Can Such Things Be?)

Twenty-nine species are woodland birds, and few of these seem to find satisfactory conditions in the riparian woods extending out through western Kansas. (Richard F Johnston, The Breeding Birds of Kansas)

Origin:
'of or pertaining to river banks, situated on or near a river bank,' 1849, with -an + Latin riparius 'of a river bank,' from riparia 'shore,' later used in reference to the stream flowing between the banks, from ripa '(steep) bank of a river, shore.' This is probably etymologically 'break' (and indicating the drop off from ground level to the stream bed), or else 'that which is cut out by the river,' from PIE root rei- 'to scratch, tear, cut' (source also of Greek ereipia 'ruins,' eripne 'slope, precipice;' Old Norse rifa 'break, to tear apart;' Danish rift 'breach,' Middle High German rif 'riverbank, seashore' (Online Etymology Dictionary)

Riparian came to English from the same source that gave us 'river' - the Latin riparius, a noun deriving from ripa, meaning 'bank' or 'shore.' First appearing in English in the 19th century, 'riparian' refers to things that exist alongside a river (such as riparian wetlands, habitats, trees, etc.). Some river communities have laws called 'riparian rights,' referring to the rights of those owning land along a river to have access to the waterway. Note the distinction of this word from 'littoral,' which usually refers to things that occur along the shore of a sea or ocean. (Merriam-Webster)

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riparian [ri-pair-ee-uhn, rahy-]

adjective:
of, relating to, or situated or dwelling on the bank of a river or other body of water

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It's been a while since we've done a full code push rather than just hotfixes for bugs, so we are well overdue! Depending on availability, we're aiming to do one sometime soon; we'll let you know specifics once we've worked out good timing for everyone who needs to be available.

However! The reason it's been so long is we kept trying to get some of the stuff that's pending to "really finished" instead of just "mostly finished", and then we once again looked around and went "oh no, this is a really big code push with a lot of changes". Those make us nervous, because while we do a lot of testing ourselves, y'all are really creative in how you use the site and we inevitably find a bunch of edge cases when we let you loose on new code with your real-world data!

So, if folks have some spare time in the next few days, it would be a huge help if you could spend half an hour or so using the site the same way you normally do but with the "Site-Wide Canary" beta features flag turned on. Canary mode is a sort of "live testing" mode: it's your real data, but running the most up-to-date code.

Canary mode always does have a few glitches -- there may be missing text strings or errors about missing database properties, which is a limitation of how we run it. We don't need to know about those, but anything else weird that you run into, leave a comment with what you were trying to do and the error message you got.

I'll repeat that the "here be dragons" caution that's on the beta features page: some things may be broken, so don't use it for when you're doing something important. But a few more eyeballs on it before the push will help the push go more smoothly for everyone.

For folks who want to concentrate on what's changing, we haven't finished the second code tour of what's going to be in this push, but the ffirst one has a good chunk of what's going to be going live. (We'll get the second half done ASAP!)

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doublure (noun)
(dou·blure ˌdəˈblu̇(ə)r, düˈ-)

• the lining of a book cover
especially: an ornamental lining (as of tooled leather, painted vellum, or rich brocade)

• the reflexed margin of a trilobite's carapace

etymology: French, from Middle French, lining of a garment, from doubler to line, double + -ure

I chose this word for its relation to books, but I do enjoy how its second meaning seems so wildly different. :)
At any rate, here is a very informative blog post featuring some gorgeous examples of doublures, including this one:

A row of books interrupted by an open one, making visible an ornate leather inner cover

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deliquescent
adjective

del·i·ques·cent ˌde-li-ˈkwe-sᵊnt

1: tending to melt or dissolve
especially : tending to undergo gradual dissolution and liquefaction by the attraction and absorption of moisture from the air

2: having repeated division into branches

Elms are deliquescent trees.

deliquescence ˌde-li-ˈkwe-sᵊn(t)s
noun

Recent Examples on the Web

His deliquescent tissue had seeped under the keys, short-circuiting the motherboard.
— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026

Big, bold and playfully grotesque, these recall the deliquescent figure sculptures of Willem de Kooning, with a few more accessories tacked on (balls, birds, various tools). — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023

Etymology

Latin deliquescent-, deliquescens, present participle of deliquescere

First Known Use

1771, in the meaning defined at sense 1
~~

I came across it in this poem recently:

Peonies

by Jim Harrison

The peonies, too heavy with their beauty,

slump to the ground. I had hoped

they would live forever but ever so slowly

day by day they’re becoming the soil of their birth

with a faint tang of deliquescence around them.

Next June they’ll somehow remember to come alive again,

a little trick we have or have not learned.

(via Read a Little Poetry FB page--many thanks!)

(they also have a website, do take a look: readalittlepoetry.com/)

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Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Comestible (adjective, noun)
comestible [kuh-mes-tuh-buhl]

adjective
1. edible; eatable.

noun
1. Usually comestibles. articles of food; edibles: The table was spread with all kinds of comestibles.

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Origin: 1475–85; < Late Latin comēstibilis, equivalent to Latin comēst ( us ), past participle of comedere to eat up ( see comedo; -ēstus for -ēs ( s ) us by analogy with gestus, ūstus, etc.; see combust) + -ibilis -ible; see eat

Example Sentences
William called it the “Circuitous Cryptanalytic Comestible Contest,” and it took place all over town.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Stakes at chess must not be confounded with the favourite "Comestible."
From Chess History and Reminiscences by Bird, H. E. (Henry Edward)

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woad [wohd]

noun

1. a European plant, Isatis tinctoria, of the mustard family, formerly cultivated for a blue dye extracted from its leaves.

2. the dye extracted from this plant.

examples
1. The jeans are made from flax and woad planted on unused ground along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. From "British Textile Biennial 2021: Events begin across East Lancashire," BBC, Oct. 1, 2021"

2. "I don't believe the indigo from the Indias is extracted from woad." Indigo by Natasha Boyd

origin
before 1000; Middle English wode, Old English wād (cognate with German Waid); akin to French guède, Medieval Latin waizda < Germanic

woad

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vespertine [ves-per-tin]

adjective:
1 (botany, zoology) appearing, opening, or active in the evening
2 occurring in the evening or (esp of stars) appearing or setting in the evening

Examples:

I remember wondering why that was his time to lash out - the vespertine hour, when the day animals were retreating to sleep and the night animals were coming out to hunt. (Susan Straight, Voices, Los Angeles Times, May 2022)

With some species, the hours of activity are even more limited, to either dawn or dusk. Animals only active at dawn are said to be matutinal, while vespertine animals are only active at dusk. (Clay Wollney, Do any crepuscular animals or plants live on Staten Island?, silive.com, April 2015)

The vespertine hour was nigh, and over this iron landscape there floated the moon, an opal button in the sky. (James Huneker, Visionaries)

Odors from strong bacon and boiling coffee contended against the cut-plug fumes from the vespertine pipe. (O Henry, The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million)

The vespertine light drains by degrees
into the night-time as if through bright
perforations of stars. (Vivek Narayanan, 'Fernando Pessoa in Durban')

Origin:
mid-15c, 'of the evening; belonging to or occurring in the evening,' from Latin vespertinus 'of the evening,' from vesper 'evening'. Evening dew in old science could be humor vespertine. Of animals, 'flying or otherwise active in evening,' from c1600. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

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The vespertine hour was nigh, and over this iron landscape there floated the moon, an opal button in the sky. (James Huneker, Visionaries)

Odors from strong bacon and boiling coffee contended against the cut-plug fumes from the vespertine pipe. (O Henry, The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million)

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Merry-Andrew - noun.

A merry-andrew describes a person who's a goofball or clown. An in-depth analysis of the term can be found here.

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Merry-Andrew - noun.

A merry-andrew describes a person who's a goofball or clown. An in-depth analysis of the term can be found here.

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