19 February 2017

intercalate

[in-tur-kuh-leyt]

verb (used with object), intercalated, intercalating.

1. to interpolate; interpose.
2. to insert (an extra day, month, etc.) in the calendar.

Origin of intercalate

Latin

1605-1615; Latin intercalātus past participle of intercalāre to insert a day or month into the calendar, equivalent to inter- inter- + calā- (stem of calāre to proclaim) + -tus past participle suffix

Related forms

intercalative, adjective
unintercalated, adjective

Synonyms

1. interject, introduce, insinuate.

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Examples from the Web for intercalate Expand

Historical Examples

The rule was to intercalate a day in every fourth year (quarto quoque anno).
Plutarch’s Lives Volume III.
Plutarch

To prevent this it was customary at regular intervals to intercalate days or months.
History of Astronomy
George Forbes

The present appears the fittest place in which to intercalate remarks concerning them.
Luck or Cunning
Samuel Butler

So far it would suffice, in accounting for the facts, to intercalate between A and B a few terms, which would remain discrete.
The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method
Henri Poincar

‘They answered, “Thous hast dared to fix intercalations and new moons, by which nonconformity has arisen between Babylon and Palestine”.’
The Talmud, Introduction: Chapter 2
Translated by Joseph Barclary LLD
Hebrew Literature: Talmudic Treatises, Hebrew Melodies, and The Kabbalah …
By Epiphanius Wilson

Anagram

lacerate tin
racial tenet
clarinet tea
earn tactile
near lattice
certain tale
React Entail
Antic Relate
Tacit Leaner
Attic Leaner
Clan Iterate
Talc Retinae
A treacle tin

Today’s quote

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another’s fear.

– Umberto Eco

On this day

19 February 1950 – Cyprus independence is granted with the signing of a joint agreement by Britain, Greece and Turkey.

19 February 1980 – death of Ronald Belford ‘Bon’ Scott, Scottish-born Australian rock musician. Most famous as the lead-singer of legendary hard rock band, AC/DC. Scott died after choking on his own vomit following a heavy drinking session. Born 9 July 1946.

19 February 2006 – Hamas leader, Ismail Haniya, becomes Prime Minister of Palestine following Palestinian Legislative Council elections.

19 February 2008 – Fidel Castro retires as leader of Cuba after 49 years at the helm, following the revolution he led in 1959. At 81 years old, Castro had been unwell.

19 February 2016 – death of Umberto Eco. Italian writer, philosopher and semiotician. Author of novels, including ‘The Name of the Rose’, ‘Foucalt’s Pendulum’, ‘The Island of the Day Before’, ‘The Prague Cemetery’. Born 5 January 1932.

18 February 2017

hauteur

[hoh-tur; French oh-tœr]

noun

1. haughty manner or spirit; arrogance.

Origin of hauteur

1620-1630; French, equivalent to haut high (see haughty ) + -eur -or1

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Examples from the Web for hauteur

Contemporary Examples

For all his reputation for hauteur, I would forever after remember this evidence of Vidal’s graciousness and self-confidence.
Putting Words in Gore Vidal’s Mouth—a Copywriter Recalls the 1982 Senate Campaign
Robert Chandler
August 5, 2012

Historical Examples

“I will not pretend to misunderstand your meaning,” he said, slowly and with hauteur.
The Mystery Girl
Carolyn Wells

He was also accused of hauteur and of an unsoldierly reserve with his brother officers.
White Lies
Charles Reade

I never heard a speaker or actor who could give such a sting to hauteur or the taunt.
Complete Prose Works
Walt Whitman

Then aloud he demanded, with hauteur : “Who do you wish to see, lady?”
A Little Miss Nobody
Amy Bell Marlowe

Into the manner of young Mr. Stuart Farquaharson came now the hauteur of dignified rebuke.
The Tyranny of Weakness
Charles Neville Buck

The hauteur of being one of the élite of Joralemon again flashed out.
The Trail of the Hawk
Sinclair Lewis

“I have always been that,” declared William, with just a touch of hauteur.
Miss Billy
Eleanor H. Porter

Of all nations on earth, they require to be treated with the most hauteur.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson

“Not specially,” she said, with a sudden accession of hauteur.
The Mystery Girl
Carolyn Wells

Anagram

urea hut

Today’s quote

But which is the stone that supports the bridge?

– Kublai Khan

On this day

18 February 1294 – death of Kublai Khan, of the Mongol Empire. He was the grandson of Genghis Khan. In 1271, Kublai Khan established the Yuan Empire ruling over modern-day Mongolia, China and Korea. He became the first non-Chinese Emperor to conquer all of China. He was born on 23 February 1215.

18 February 1965 – Australian Freedom Rides led by Charles Perkins. The Freedom Rides were inspired by the Freedom Rides in America. Perkins and 33 others travelled by bus to numerous towns in New South Wales challenging and protesting against discrimination and segregation. They picketed pools, parks and pubs where aborigines were expected to be segregated. Some of the protests turned violent, such as in Moree and Walgett when locals attacked the protesters. One of the protesters was Jim Spigelman who became Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales and later, Chief Justice of New South Wales. Charles Perkins became the first aborigine to graduate from university.

17 February 2017

willowwacks

[wil-oh-waks]

noun, New England.

1. a wooded, uninhabited area.

Also, willywacks.

Origin of willowwacks

of uncertain origin

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Example

The lonely willowwacks of New England provided an atmospheric location for the fertile imagination of horror writer, Stephen King.

Anagram

laws lick wow
awl wick owls

Today’s quote

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

– Giordano Bruno

On this day

17 February 1600 – death of Giordano Bruno, Italian Dominician friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet and astrologer. Bruno wrote extensively on the art of memory. proposed that the stars were distant suns and could have planets of their own with life on them. He also stated that the Communion couldn’t transform into the body of Christ (Transubstantiation). He also rejected other core Catholic tenets including the Trinity, eternal damnation, the divinity of Christ, and the virginity of Mary. For his scientific and religious views, he was charged with heresy and burned at the stake. Many regard him as the first martyr for science. Born 1548.

17 February 1933 – End of Prohibition, when the US Senate passes the Blaine Act.

17 February 1934 – birth of Barry Humphries, Australian comedian, famous for characters such as Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson.

17 February 2007 – Sylvester Stallone is held by Australian Customs for a couple of hours after prohibited items were confiscated from his baggage.

16 February 2017

dapper

[dap-er]

adjective

1. neat; trim; smart:
He looked very dapper in his new suit.
2. lively and brisk:
to walk with a dapper step.
3. small and active.

Origin of dapper

late Middle English Middle Dutch
1400-1450; late Middle English daper < Middle Dutch dapper nimble, stalwart; cognate with German tapfer brave

Related forms

dapperly, adverb
dapperness, noun
undapper, adjective

Synonyms

1. spruce, modish, jaunty, natty.

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Examples from the Web for dapper

Contemporary Examples

A dapper man with a Georgian charm, Crumpton is sometimes called the “American James Bond.”
CIA’s Henry Crumpton on the Heroes You’ll Never Know
Miranda Green
November 14, 2012

There, the actor—dressed like a dapper, blood-soaked zombie—took on the Michael Jackson classic “Thriller.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s 9 Best Musical Performances: Jimmy Fallon, Lady Gaga, More
Marlow Stern
September 26, 2013

The young actor has also gained marks for his dapper red-carpet style, which he credits to fashion designer Tom Ford.
Nicholas Hoult on ‘Warm Bodies,’ ‘X-Men,’ Jennifer Lawrence & More
Marlow Stern
January 31, 2013

Among the ghosts in that alluring photo is Harold L. “Doc” Humes, dapper in suit, vest, and bow tie.
Plimpton’s Crazy Co-Conspirator
Ronald K. Fried
December 7, 2008

One of the few exceptions is James Lindon, dapper director of PaceWildenstein, who always wears something interesting.
Venice by Foot
Bettina Von Hase
June 9, 2009

Historical Examples

It was Lasalle, and with him was a lame gentleman, very neatly dressed in black with dapper ruffles and cuffs.
The Exploits Of Brigadier Gerard
Arthur Conan Doyle

The dapper little officer in khaki was Aguinaldo, and this is the story of how I saw him.
Bamboo Tales
Ira L. Reeves

They went to where they found the dapper warriors standing in the court in a great press of welcoming knights.
The Nibelungenlied
Unknown

Major Forsyth arrived in time for tea, red-faced, dapper, and immaculate.
The Hero
William Somerset Maugham

A genial gentleman, the druggist, white-coated and dapper, stepping affably about the fragrant-smelling store.
Half Portions
Edna Ferber

Anagram

rapped
per pad

Today’s quote

It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists. You have given the gift of laughter to our people. May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.

– President Lyndon B. Johnson

On this day

16 February 1923 – the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen in Egypt is opened, after it was recently discovered by British archaeologist, Howard Carter. The tomb was 3,000 years old.

16 February 1936 – The left-wing Popular Front is elected to power in Spain. The Popular Front was a coalition of numerous Communist and Socialist parties, including the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), Communist Party of Spain (PCE), Worker’ Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), Republican Left (IR) and Republican Union Party (UR). The pact which enabled the formation of the Popular Front was supported by Galician (PG) and Catalan nationalists (ERC), the Workers’ General Union (UGT) and the anarchist trade union, Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT). The Popular Front had defeated the National Front (a coalition of right-wing parties) in the elections, and was formed to combat the rising tide of right-wing Fascism throughout Europe. In July 1936, conservative monarchists led by General Francisco Franco instigated a military coup that started the Spanish Civil War. Franco received backing from Mussolini and Hitler, while some of the left-wing forces, including the International Brigade (formed of volunteers from all over Europe) received backing from Stalin. British author, George Orwell, a democratic socialist, travelled to Spain and fought with the POUM because he wanted to help defeat Fascism. It was only be chance that Orwell didn’t join the International Brigade. The POUM (an anti-Stalinist Communist Party) was declared an illegal organisation in 1937 by the government in an effort by Communist forces to purge Troskyists, forcing Orwell to flee or face imprisonment. Orwell wrote of his Spanish Civil War experience in Homage to Catalonia. His experience made him a life-long anti-Stalinist and committed Democratic Socialist. In April 1939, Franco’s forces defeated the Popular Front, installing him as President. Franco ruled Spain with a military dictatorship until his death in 1975.

16 February 1959 – Fidel Castro sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba after leading a successful revolution against the President Batista.

16 February 1983 – Ash Wednesday bush-fires burn more than 4,000km2 of land in South Australia and Victoria, killing 75 people (47 in Victoria and 28 in South Australia), destroying more than 3,700 buildings, and more than 2,500 people lost their homes.

15 February 2017

samovar

[sam-uh-vahr, sam-uh-vahr]

noun

1. a metal urn, used especially by Russians for heating water for making tea.

Origin of samovar

1820-1830; Russian samovár, equivalent to samo- self (see same ) + -var, noun derivative of varítʾ to cook, boil

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Examples from the Web for samovar

Historical Examples

The samovar was brought in, and over hot tea and buns we speedily became acquainted.
In Search of a Siberian Klondike
Homer B. Hulbert

The maid brought in the samovar, and the conversation was interrupted.
Foma Gordyeff
Maxim Gorky

They have been ready since midnight, and the samovar also; you will drink a glass of tea, Excellencies.
The Red Symbol
John Ironside

Anagram

am savor
mars ova

Today’s quote

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

– Fyodor Dostoevsky

On this day

15 February 1989 – the last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan after a 10 year occupation referred to as the Soviet Union’s ‘Vietnam’. The Soviets had invaded on 24 December 1979 in response to Afghan insurgents (armed by the United States) who had been attacking Soviet troops. The occupation lasts for 10 years and results in the deaths of between 600,000 and 2,000,000 Afghan civilians, as well as 6,000,000 refugees who fled to Pakistan and Iran. The cost of the Afghan occupation is a significant factor that led to the economic collapse of the Soviet Union. During the Soviet occupation, the United States funded Afghan resistance in the form of the Mujahideen and other militant Islamic groups, out of whom emerged Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The Afghan people continue to suffer and to comprise a significant portion of global refugee numbers because of the involvement of the USSR and the USA during this period.

14 February 2017

bonce

[bons]

noun, British Slang.

1. head; skull.

Origin of bonce

1860-1865; perhaps to be identified with bonce a large playing marble, perhaps representing dial. pronunciation of bounce; compare dial. (Yorkshire) bouncer large earthenware marble

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Example

He dodged a bonce to the head.

Anagram

be con

Today’s quote

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

– Jello Biafra

On this day

14 February – Valentine’s Day

14 February – International book giving day, focussing on giving books to children.You can participate by 1) give a book to a friend or family member, 2) leave a book in a waiting room for children to read, or 3) donate a gently used book to a local library, hospital or shelter, or to an organization that distributes used books to children in need internationally. http://bookgivingday.com

14 February 1779 – death of Captain James Cook, British explorer. Made three major voyages in which he discovered many of the islands of the south pacific, including the east coast of Australia. Cooktown, Queensland, is named after him. The house he grew up in was relocated from Yorkshire, England, to Melbourne, Australia and is open to visits (now known as Captain Cook’s Cottage and is situated in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne). Died 14 February 1779 after being stabbed by Hawaiians who credited their Chief Kalanimanokahoowaha (Kanaina) with the kill. Captain Cook’s body was then subjected a funeral ritual that was normally reserved for a Chief. Born 27 October 1728.

14 February 1929 – St Valentine’s Day massacre when Chicago gangster, Al Capone’s Italian gang killed seven of Bugs Moran’s Irish gang.

14 February 1966 – Australia introduces decimal currency, replacing pounds, shillings and pence with dollars and cents.

14 February 1989 – Police raid Rocking Horse Records in Brisbane, Queensland (which had long been seen as a Police State under the leadership of Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen). 4ZZZ (another target of police raids during the 1980s) described the raid thus, ‘On this day in 1989 – Police raid long time 4ZZZ supporters Rocking Horse Records, then located at 158 Adelaide Street in the city. An undercover officer from the Licensing branch, came into the store seeking out rude records for a “wild valentine’s day party”, followed later that day by four uniformed police who raided the store. Owner Warwick Vere was charged with exhibiting and selling obscene material under the Vagrants, Gaming and Other Offences Act, but ultimately found not guilty. Albums included The Dead Kennedys “Give me Convenience” (featuring the classic ‘Too Drunk to F**k’), Guns n Roses “Appetite for Destruction” (available at many major chain stores at the time), the Hard-Ons “Dick Cheese” and The Champs “Do the Shag” (an instrumental album from the early 60s). In an interview with Gavin Sawford for Time Off Magazine, Dead Kennedy’s Jello Biafra commented: “if these attempts to shut down record stores because an instrumental band mention a type of carpet on their record helps to galvanise people to vote out the present administration, then by all means let’s see some more raids”.’ They also took a Sonic Youth album with the song, Master-Dik. Jello Biafra went on to state, ‘now if I’m a robber or a rapist in Brisbane, I should call the cops and report obscene records on the other side of town in store before I go out and commit a crime that harms real people, because obviously the cops don’t care about those kind of crimes’.

13 February 2017

introspection

[in-truh-spek-shuh n]

noun

1. observation or examination of one’s own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself.
2. the tendency or disposition to do this.
3. sympathetic introspection.

Origin of introspection

Latin

1670-1680; < Latin intrōspect (us), past participle of intrōspicere to look within (equivalent to intrō- intro- + spec (ere) to look + -tus past participle suffix) + -ion

Related forms

introspectional, adjective
introspectionist, noun, adjective

Synonyms

1. self-examination, soul-searching.

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Examples from the Web for introspection

Contemporary Examples

A salty pragmatism runs throughout, and only a modicum of introspection is encouraged.
Advice From the Oldest Americans
Casey Schwartz
October 28, 2011

Still, some introspection on the part of Hillel International might be worthwhile.
Swarthmore Hillel Breaks From Guidelines Over Ban on ‘Anti-Zionist’ Speakers
Elisheva Goldberg
December 9, 2013

But I really do believe that it can be a time when Republicans engage in an appropriate level of introspection.
Rightward, Ho!
Ana Marie Cox
November 17, 2008

Anagram

rot inceptions
nicotines port
corniest point
incites pronto
nicest portion
scorn petition

Today’s quote

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.

– Reinhold Niebuhr

On this day

13 February 1915 – birth of General Aung San, founder of modern day Burma and Burmese Army. Father of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, activist and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient.

13 February 1920 – the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland is recognised by the League of Nations (predecessor of the United Nations).

13 – 15 February 1945 – the bombing of Dresden in which 722 British and 527 USAF aircraft drop more than 3,900 tons of explosives on Dresden, Germany. At the time, Nazi Germany claimed more than 300,000 casualties, however, an official report in 2010 claimed that casualties were around 25,000, historians generally number the casualties between 35,000 and 135,000. Because of the number of refugees in the city, it is unlikely the exact figure will ever be known.

13 February 2008 – Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologises to Australia’s indigenous peoples, particularly those of the stolen generation from whom children were forcibly removed from their parents.

12 February 2017

circumspect

[sur-kuh m-spekt]

adjective

1. watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent:
circumspect behavior.
2. well-considered:
circumspect ambition.

Origin of circumspect

late Middle English Latin

1375-1425; late Middle English < Latin circumspectus (past participle of circumspicere to look around), equivalent to circum- circum- + spec (ere) to look + -tus past participle suffix

Related forms

circumspectly, adverb
circumspectness, noun
noncircumspect, adjective
noncircumspectly, adverb
noncircumspectness, noun

Synonyms

1. careful, vigilant, guarded.

Antonyms

1. careless, indiscreet.

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Examples from the Web for circumspect

Contemporary Examples

Some of the Americans joining ISIS are less than circumspect, especially online.
How Many Americans in ISIS? No One Knows
Eli Lake
September 4, 2014

But his subsequent actions will remain case by case and circumspect.
Israel: No Peace in Sight
Leslie H. Gelb
May 15, 2011

(LOC 1011-1015) One more adjective could be added to Summer’s list: circumspect.
David’s Bookclub: The New New Deal
David Frum
November 30, 2012

The poet remains coolly detached: a circumspect observer in the face of cataclysm.
Catastrophe in Verse
Eliza Griswold
April 20, 2011

Mandela did not want messy personal details in his Long Walk to Freedom, and here his handlers have been just as circumspect.
Nelson Mandela’s Revelatory Diaries
James Zug
October 15, 2010

Historical Examples

Trusting me, the little road dared to turn mad, she who had been so circumspect down below in the valley.
The Joys of Being a Woman
Winifred Kirkland

During your courtship let me entreat you to be very careful and circumspect.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information
Anonymous

After that the generals began to disperse with the solemnity and circumspect silence of people who are leaving, after a funeral.
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy

But she was dutiful to him, and he was circumspect in his behaviour before her.
Captain Blood
Rafael Sabatini

Why has this bold and circumspect man kept his secret and become his chief adviser?
Shakespearean Tragedy
A. C. Bradley

Anagram

cecum script

Today’s quote

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn’t fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

– Tom Stoppard

On this day

12 February 1809 – birth of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United State of America. Assassinated 15 April 1865.

12 February 1912 – the Last Emperor of China, Hsian-T’ung is forced to abdicate by republicans, ending 2000 years of imperial rule. The Republic of China formed on 1 January 1912, followed by the People’s Republic of China, which formed on 1 October 1949.

12 February 1983 – Legendary 1960’s folk duo, Simon and Garfunkel, play a reunion concert at VFL Park, Melbourne.

12 February 2015 – death of Faith Bandler. Australian civil rights activist. Her father was from Vanuatu. Her mother of Scottish-Indian descent. Campaigned for the rights of indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. She was a leader in the 1967 referendum on aboriginal Australians. She was involved with the Aboriginal–Australian Fellowship and the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI). She was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in 1984 and Companion of the Order of Australia in 2009. Born 23 September 1918.

11 February 2017

intransigent or intransigeant

[in-tran-si-juh nt]

adjective

1. refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.

noun

2. a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics.

Origin of intransigent

Spanish

1875-1880; < Spanish intransigente, equivalent to in- in-3+ transigente (present participle of transigir to compromise) < Latin trānsigent- (stem of trānsigēns, present participle of trānsigere to come to an agreement); see transact

Related forms

intransigence, intransigency, noun
intransigently, adverb

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Examples from the Web for intransigent

Contemporary Examples

And why is it that the Republicans can be so intransigent and Barack Obama gets blamed?
Bob Woodward and the Rules of Washington Morality
Michael Tomasky

March 2, 2013

But on the subject of marriage, Motilal was intransigent : his son would have to endure an arranged match.
Hold Onto Your Penis
David Frum, Justin Green
November 28, 2012

They know most voters want them to work things out, which is why the other guys should stop being so intransigent.
Obama’s GOP Frenemies Hit the White House
Howard Kurtz
November 29, 2010

Anagram

grannies tint
tenanting sir
in astringent
nattering sin
restating inn

Today’s quote

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

– Sylvia Plath

On this day

11 February 1847 – birth of Thomas Edison, U.S. inventor. Died 18 October 1931.

11 February 1916 – Emma Goldman arrested for campaigning for birth control in New York.

11 February 1945 – The Yalta Agreement is signed by Josef Stalin (USSR), Winston Churchill (UK), Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA), regarding the control of Germany once World War II finishes.

11 February 1963 – death of Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Boston, she travelled to the UK and studied at Cambridge University. It was here that she met British poet, Ted Hughes. In 1957 they married. For a while they lived in Boston, before returning to England and living in London and later Devon. Plath often wrote about her experiences, particularly with depression. She advanced the genre of ‘confessional poetry’. Plath struggled with the loneliness of Devon and returned to London, renting a unit in a house where the poet, William Butler Yeats once lived. The unit was owned by Assia and David Wevill. Plath’s husband, Ted Hughes, was captivated by Assia’s beauty. In September 1962, Plath left Hughes after discovering he’d been having an affair with Assia. Plath suffered bipolar disorder and had made numerous suicide attempts throughout her life. In February 1963, she suicided by turning the gas on in her oven and placing her head in it. She had sealed her children’s rooms with wet towels to avoid poisoning them. Plath had published a number of poetry collections and some were published post-humously. In 1982, she was awarded a post-humous Pulitzer Prize for her poetry. She is considered one of the great poets of the 20th century. Died 27 October 1932.

11 February 1979 – the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, is overthrown by the Iranian Revolution, and replaced by the Ayatollah Khomeini.

10 February 2017

lien(1)

[leen, lee-uh n]

noun

1. Law. the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.

Origin of lien(1)

Old French, Latin
1525-1535; < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin ligāmen tie, bandage, equivalent to ligā (re) to tie + -men noun suffix of result

Related forms

lienable, adjective

lien(2)

[lahy-uh n, -en]

1. the spleen.

Origin

1645-55; < Latin liēn spleen

Related forms

lienal [lahy-een-l, lahy-uh-nl], adjective

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Examples from the Web for lien

Contemporary Examples

lien kept going and the bikers pursued him, horns beeping, the big buzz now sounding frenzied, furious.
How New York City’s ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Terrorized a Young Family
Michael Daly
October 1, 2013

Georgia revenue officials declined to comment on the matter except to say the lien was withdrawn.
Cain’s Tax Delinquency
Daniel Stone
October 24, 2011

lien and Ng were celebrating a much happier marker, their first wedding anniversary.
How New York City’s ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Terrorized a Young Family
Michael Daly
October 1, 2013

But lien was a 33 year-old e-commerce executive with his young family.
How New York City’s ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Terrorized a Young Family
Michael Daly
October 1, 2013

lien had been taken to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, where he was treated and released.
How New York City’s ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Terrorized a Young Family
Michael Daly
October 1, 2013

Historical Examples

He is said to have a lien on the goods or proceeds of the sale, for his compensation.
Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 3
Various

But there was—that of debtor and creditor—a lien not always conferring friendship.
The Death Shot
Mayne Reid

His brother proved a lien on it for L300 and the rest went by will to his wife.
Put Yourself in His Place
Charles Reade

The sale of the property was threatened by those who held the lien on the church.
History of Linn County Iowa
Luther A. Brewer

A land tax was certain—it might, and undoubtedly would, be made a lien on the real estate on which it was laid.
Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. II (of 16)
Thomas Hart Benton

Anagram

line
nile

Today’s quote

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.

– Bertolt Brecht

On this day

10 February 1837 – death of Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and author from the romantic era. Considered the father of modern Russian literature. He was born into Russian nobility. His matrilineal great grandfather, Abram Gannibal, was brought over as a slave from Africa and had risen to the aristocracy. Died during a duel. Born on 6 June 1799. His birthday is recognised by the UN as Russian Language Day.

10 February 1898 – birth of Bertolt Brecht, German playwright, writer and theatre practitioner. Died 14 August 1956.

10 February 1992 – death of Alex Haley, U.S. author of ‘Roots‘, ‘Malcolm X‘. Born 11 August 1921.

10 February 2014 – death of Shirley Temple, American actress, singer, dancer and former U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. Born 23 April 1928.