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More about stownlins
Scots English has many interesting words, and stownlins is one of them. Stownlins is an adverb meaning 鈥渟ecretly, stealthily.鈥� Stownlins is formed from stown, Scots for English stolen, and the compound adverb suffix -lins, formed from the now rare and dialectal suffix -ling and the adverb suffix -s (as in English always, unawares). Stownlins appears in print in 1786 in a poem by Robert Burns, which guarantees its immortality.
how is stownlins used?
But she my fairest faithfu’ lass / And stownlins we sall meet again.
An’ stownlins I tak o’ her charms a survey, / For my courage aye fails when to speak to’r I try.
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moil
verb (used without object)
to work hard; drudge.
More about moil
English moil has a number of odd relatives. Middle English mollen 鈥渢o moisten, soften by wetting鈥� comes from Anglo-French moiller, muiller (Old French moiler 鈥渢o soak, wet, stain鈥�), from Vulgar Latin 尘辞濒濒颈腻谤别 (from Latin 尘辞濒濒墨谤别 鈥渢o soften, relax鈥�), a derivative of mollis 鈥渟oft, yielding to the touch.鈥� From 尘辞濒濒墨谤别 Latin derives 膿尘辞濒濒墨谤别 鈥渢o soften, relax, soothe, enervate鈥� (source of English emollient). Late Latin has 尘辞濒濒颈蹿颈肠腻谤别 鈥渢o soften,鈥� which via Middle French mollifier becomes English mollify. Students of French will recognize the French phonetics term 尘辞耻颈濒濒茅 鈥減alatalized,鈥� literally 鈥渨et, moistened.鈥� In Spanish 尘辞濒濒颈腻谤别 becomes mojar 鈥渢o wet, moisten,鈥� whose past participle mojado 鈥渨et, moistened鈥� is familiar to many people from the phrase piso mojado 鈥渨et floor.鈥� One of the senses of moil “to work hard” dates from the 16th century and is most likely a development of the sense 鈥渢o make oneself wet, wallow in mire.鈥� The Middle English verb mollen, mullen is the source of the uncommon verb mull, a metallurgical term meaning 鈥渢o mix clay with sand (to make a mold).鈥� Have we toiled and moiled on the topic enough for today? Moil entered English in the 15th century.
how is moil used?
I shall have to toil and moil all my days, with only little bits of fun now and then, and get old and ugly and sour, because I’m poor, and can’t enjoy my life as other girls do.
Why should he toil and moil, and be at so much trouble to pick himself up out of the mud, when, in a little while hence, the strong arm of his Uncle will raise and support him?
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hypethral
adjective
wholly or partly open to the sky, especially of a classical building; having no roof.
More about hypethral
The uncommon adjective hypethral (also spelled hypaethral) means 鈥渙pen to the sky, not having a roof, uncovered.鈥� The English word comes from the Latin adjective hypaethros; the neuter of the adjective, hypaethron, is used as a noun in Latin meaning 鈥渢emple open to the sky.鈥� Hypaethros is a borrowing from Greek 丑测辫补铆迟丑谤颈辞蝉 (also 丑媒辫补颈迟丑谤辞蝉) 鈥渋n the open air, in open country,鈥� a compound of the familiar prefix hypo- 鈥渦nder鈥� and the noun 补颈迟丑岣梤 鈥渢he upper air, pure air, ether.鈥� In Greek 丑媒辫补颈迟丑谤辞苍 did not mean 鈥渢emple open to the sky鈥�; that was a new sense coined by the Roman architect Vitruvius in the first century b.c. Hypaethral entered English in the late-18th century.
how is hypethral used?
One of the noblest effects of interior illumination known in historical art is in the Roman Pantheon, the area of which (140 feet in diameter) is lighted only by the circular hypethral opening 25 feet wide at the apex of the dome.
It seems probable that to this period must be assigned the famous rock-reliefs at the hypethral sanctuary of Iasily Kaya, near Boghaz-Keui, as well as those at Giaour Kalesi.
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