7 February 2014

farctate

[fahrk-teyt]

adjective

– Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; — opposed to tubular or hollow. [Obs.]
– stuffed; as in eaten a large meal, Christmas is marked by farctate meals.

[L. farctus, p. p. of farcire. See Farce, v. t.] (Bot.)

Anagram

fat crate
fat react
fear tact
face tart
artefact

Today’s aphorism

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a constant state of learning.

– Bruce Lee

On this day

7 February 1967 – Black Tuesday bushfires in Tasmania, which kill 62 and injure 900.

7 February 1971 – Switzerland gives women the right to vote.

7 February 1984 – Bruce McAndless becomes the first man to fly freely in space when he unclips his harness and uses a jet-pack to fly 300 feet away from the space shuttle, Challenger, before flying safely back to it.

7 February 1992 – Twelve members of the European Union ratify the Maastricht Treaty for greater economic integration, security and policing. The Treaty is implemented in November 1993. The nations were Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Irish Republic.