The 2003–2004 Obie Awards, honoring distinguished achievement in Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions, were presented on May 17, 2004, at New York's Webster Hall.Direction: Lee…
and in French Méche, Méchant. That the two English words and the two French words should have similar resemblances and similar meanings is a remarkable…
Day 899 Day 901 Lewis, September 20, 1805 Friday September 20th 1805. This morning my attention was called to a species of bird which I had never seen before. It was reather larger than a…
(2 syl.). A boat. (Spanish, canóa, a canoe; Dutch, cano; German, kahn, a boat; Old French, cane, a ship, and canot, a boat; Latin, canna, a hollow stem or reed; our cane, can = a jug;…
In Latin cicuta means the length of a reed up to the knot, such as the internodes made into a Pan-pipe. Hence Virgil ( Ecl. ii. 36) describes a Pan-pipe as “septem compacta cicutis fistula…
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 14, 1806June 16, 1806June 15, 1806 Sunday June 15th 1806. We had some little difficulty in collecting our horses this morning they had…
(pron. Ho'-ooy). A strawberry; so called either from the haut bois (high woods) of Bohemia whence it was imported, or from its haut-bois (long-stalk). The latter is the more probable, and…
Arrow-heads of the neolithic period. The shafts of these arrows were reeds, and the heads were pieces of flint, carefully sharpened, and so adjusted as to detach themselves from the shaft…
Fourth Khanda 1. Some say: “Let the swing be one ell (aratni) above the ground, for by that measure verily the Svarga worlds are measured.” That is not to be regarded.2. Others say: “Let it…
