narthex

A vestibule leading to the nave of a church.

by Antinous September 22, 2003

myocardial infarction

Destruction of myocardial tissue caused by blockage of a coronary artery, either by a thrombus or by aethrosclerosis. Also heart attack

Emeril Lagasse is going to die of myocardial infarction one of these days, due to his great love of pork fat.

by Antinous September 22, 2003

deism

Its creed is pure, and sublimely simple. It believes in God, and there it rests.

It honors reason as the choicest gift of God to man, and the faculty by which he is enabled to contemplate the power, wisdom and goodness of the Creator displayed in the creation; and reposing itself on His protection, both here and hereafter, it avoids all presumptuous beliefs, and rejects, as the fabulous inventions of men, all books pretending to revelation.

--Thomas Paine

by antinous February 27, 2004

drawknife

a knife, usually bevelled on one side only, with a handle at either end of the blade, used with a pulling stroke for rapid removal of stock.

I took the corners off the block with a drawknife before turning it on the lathe.

by Antinous September 12, 2003

inabstinent

not abstinent

My hand and I were inabstinent this morning.

by Antinous March 21, 2004

scriptures

"The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based" (Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary. 1911.).

by Antinous September 11, 2003

pray

"To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy "(Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary. 1911).

by Antinous September 11, 2003