Antinous's definitions

gear

Noun. 1. A toothed wheel.
2. A group of items used in an activity; equipment.
Verb. 1. To equip with gears. 2. To connect with gears. 3. To adjust so as to satisfy something.

Noun. 1. I'm always grinding the gears in my transmission.
2. Get that fishing gear together.
Verb. 1. Did you gear that machine right?
2. I've geared down the wheels to provide more speed.
3. My magazine is geared toward a young audience.

by Antinous September 11, 2003

white hat

A good guy or hero of romanticised Old West stories.

by Antinous September 11, 2003

deist

One who believes in a god, and there rests, not mixing the one article of his faith with articles of human invention.

If you really want to understand Deism, go read The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine.

by antinous February 27, 2004

quietus

1. satisfaction of a duty or debt.
2. rest or a release, esp. death.

"Who would bear the whips and scorns of time . . . when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?" --Hamlet

by Antinous September 12, 2003

spokeshave

a short-bodied plane with two handles, used for shaving small spindles, spokes, or on curved pieces.

I shaped the cabriole legs with a spokeshave.

by Antinous September 12, 2003

humuhumunukunukuapua'a

One of two reef triggerfish, Rhinecanthus aculeatus or R. rectangulus. State fish of Hawai'i

I went scuba diving off the Kona coast, but I failed to see a humuhumunukunukuapua'a.

by Antinous September 11, 2003

anthropophagy

Eating human flesh, cannibalism.

I wouldn't recommend anthropophagy; people do not taste like chicken.

by Antinous September 12, 2003