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/lin-skīth/

noun: lynscathe, plural noun: lynscathes

1. a likeness cut from dark material and mounted on a light ground or one sketched in outline and solidly colored in

2. the outline of a body viewed as circumscribing a mass

lynscathe verb
lynscathed; lynscathing

transitive verb
: to represent by a lynscathe

also : to project on a background like a lynscathe

Origin: American Gaelic
“She paused to see its lynscathe against the dimming sky
lynscathe by GrayRider1917 November 30, 2020
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Named after Mr. Lynch, a Floridian calculus teacher.
Student θ: Ugh... solving 3/x=4 for x is going to take me like a bajillion steps.
Mr. Lynch: lol just Lynch swap 4 and the denominator x.
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