51吃瓜 of the Day
slubber
verb (used with object)
to perform hastily or carelessly.
More about slubber
厂濒耻产产别谤听 is an older, infrequent verb that means 鈥渢o perform (something) hastily or carelessly.鈥� Earlier senses include 鈥渢o smear; smudge鈥� and 鈥渢o sully (a reputation, etc.).鈥� Slubber comes from Low German slubbern 鈥渢o do work carelessly鈥� and appears to be related to slabber and the more familiar slobber 鈥渢o let saliva run from the mouth,鈥� with an earlier sense of 鈥渢o eat in a hasty, messy manner鈥濃�攁n unfastidious trio of terms forming one 鈥渟loppy鈥� family. Slubber entered English in the early 1500s.
how is slubber used?
Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio …
It must be “slubber’d o’er in haste,”鈥攊ts important preliminaries left to the cold imagination of the reader鈥攊ts fine spirit perhaps evaporating for want to being embodied in words.
ikebana
noun
the Japanese art of arranging flowers.
More about ikebana
Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, comes from the Japanese verb ikeru 鈥渢o keep alive, make alive, arrange鈥� and –bana, a variant used as a combining form of hana 鈥渇濒辞飞别谤.鈥� Ikebana dates to the 6th century when offerings of flowers were placed at altars; later, flowers were also displayed in tokonomas (alcoves in private homes). Ikebana entered English at the beginning of the 20th century.
how is ikebana used?
… were you to consider the philosophy at the core of ikebana, grounded as it is in Japan’s ancient polytheism and its Buddhist traditions, you might find something quite relevant to the times we live in: an art that can expand your appreciation聽 of beauty.
One must surpass and transcend concepts of traditional use and discover a “new face” in the material, and this “new face” is the primary focus of contemporary ikebana.
embosom
verb (used with object)
to cherish; foster.
More about embosom
The verb embosom 鈥渢o cherish, foster,鈥� is a compound formed from the prefix em– meaning 鈥渢o make (someone or something) be in (a place or condition),鈥� a borrowing from Old French, from Latin in-, and the noun bosom (the variant imbosom is formed directly from the Latin prefix in-). Bosom comes from Old English 产贸蝉尘 and has certain relatives only within Germanic, e.g., Old Frisian 产贸蝉尘, Old Saxon 产贸蝉辞尘, Old High German buosam, German Busen. The verb is poetic and rare, first appearing in Edmund Spenser鈥檚 Faerie Queene (1590).
how is embosom used?
The more thoroughly she is recognized in any University, and made to聽embosom the minds trained in it, interpenetrating with her Divine force all resources of Science, the more will she make that, in no common-place sense but truly, royally, the cherished mother of its students.
When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.