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Spline
A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to..
Rich
Abounding in agreeable or nutritive qualities; -- especially applied to articles of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or are sweet, luscious, and high..
Muffin
A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.
Pigpen
A pen, or sty, for pigs.
Lily
A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary.
Lorica
A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.
Joss
A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.
Boxhauling
A method of going from one tack to another. See Boxhaul.
Cyma
A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form.
Ovary
That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.
Homer
A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
Berber
A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, a..
Module
A model or measure.
Laurel
An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.
Lopped
of Lop
Chill
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
Bought
A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.
Ad interim
Meanwhile; temporary.
Entreat
To invite; to entertain.
Wainscoting
The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork.
Raptor
A ravisher; a plunderer.
Vetoed
of Veto
Encrinal
Alt. of Encrinital
Mantua
A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.
Giver
One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.
Swab
A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.
Turbid
Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine.
Sphinx
In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.
Force
To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
Jagua palm
A great Brazilian palm (Maximiliana regia), having immense spathes which are used for baskets and tubs.
Carousing
That carouses; relating to a carouse.
Than
A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the ..
Brad
A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied fin..
Mastic
A low shrubby tree of the genus Pistacia (P. Lentiscus), growing upon the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean, and producing a valuable resin; -- called also, mastic tree.
Scylla
A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was forme..
Angora
A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc.
Retire
To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.
Fez
A felt or cloth cap, usually red and having a tassel, -- a variety of the tarboosh. See Tarboosh.
Cerium
A rare metallic element, occurring in the minerals cerite, allanite, monazite, etc. Symbol Ce. Atomic weight 141.5. It resembles iron in color and luster, but is soft, and both malleable and duc..
Jarred
of Jar
Penis
The male member, or organ of generation.
Jerkin
A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.
Bromine
One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish ..
Wing
Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.
Matte
A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according ..
Sea card
Mariner's card, or compass.
Hovel
An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
Swashy
Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
Vas
A vessel; a duct.
Foliomort
See Feuillemort.
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
