engastration /en-ga-STRAY-shən/. noun. A method of cooking in which one animal is stuffed inside the other, most often fowl-in-fowl. The most famous example is the turducken (a deboned chicken stuff inside a deboned duck which is stuffed inside a turkey), but there are many variations including the Pandora’s Cushion (a goose stuffed with a chicken stuffed with a quail), gooducken (goose stuffed with a duck stuffed with a chicken) and the turbacon which is made of “a 20-pound pig with an 8-pound turkey, a 6-pound duck, a 4-pound chicken, a Cornish game hen, a quail, lots of bacon, 6 pounds of butter and a splash of Dr Pepper.” Sign me up.
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escharotic
escharotic /ES-kər-AH-tik/. adjective or noun. Generally, something that tends to form an eschar (a dry crust or scab). Or a drug or caustic substance that does the same. From French escharotique, from Greek escharōtikos, from escharoun (to form an eschar).
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enow
enow /i-NOW/. adjective or adverb. Enough. In archaic usage, a plural for enough. In Scottish dialect: a moment ago, just now or presently. From Old English genog (enough).
“There are enow of zealots on both sides.” (David Hume)
“His mere looks threw darts enow t’impress Their pow’rs with trembling.” (Homer, translated by George Chapman)
“Away, Away, John Carrion Crow,
Your Master hath enow
Down in his Barley Mow.”
(Thomas Bewick, from The History of Little King Pippin With an Account of the Melancholy Death of Four Naughty Boys, Who were Devoured by Wild Beasts. And the Wonderful Delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a Little White Horse.)
“I like thy spirit, I do in truth; but I do not admire thy judgment. Bone-rackings and bastings be plenty enow in this life, without going out of one’s way to invite them.” (Mark Twain)
Indeed this very love which is my boast,
And which, when rising up from breast to brow,
Doth crown me with a ruby large enow
To draw men’s eyes and prove the inner cost…
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
epilimnion
epilimnion /e-pə-LIM-nee-on/. Noun. The upper, warm layer of a stratified lake. The layer above a lake’s thermocline. More generally, the surface layer of a body of liquid. From Greek limnion, diminutive of limnē (marshy lake). See also: epilimnetic, epiliminial.
“The result of this warming is that, in summer, a warm upper layer of less dense water, the epilimnion, comes to lie over a cold deeper water mass, the hypolimnion.” (Philip Ullyott & Paul Holmes, from Nature)
“Down there the temperature was always an even 4°, no matter what the season, but it was unheard of that a spore should be found there while the high epilimnion was still warm and rich in oxygen.” (James Blish, from “Surface Tension”)