Thursday, May 3, 2012

Larceny

noun
- The theft of personal property.

Foxfire

noun
- The phosphorescent light emitted by certain fungi on decaying timber.

Kerf

noun
- A slit made by cutting, especially with a saw.
- The cut end of a felled tree.

Crevasse

noun
(Geology)
- A deep crack in an ice sheet or glacier (as opposed to a crevice, which forms in rock).

Lunette

noun
- Something that has the shape of a crescent or half-moon, such as:

  1. An opening in a vault, especially for a window.
  2. The surface at the upper part of a wall that is partly surrounded by a vault which the wall intersects and that is often filled by windows or by mural painting.
  3. A low crescentic mound (as of sand) formed by the wind.
- The figure or shape of a crescent moon.


Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Lugubrious

adjective
- Looking or sounding sad, dismal, glum.

Interfluve

noun
(Geology)
- The elevated region between two rivers that are part of the same drainage system.