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More about darg
If you know that darg means 鈥渁 day鈥檚 work,鈥� you may be able to figure out that it comes from day and work. Darg comes from Middle English daiwerk, daiwark, daiwork 鈥渁 day鈥檚 work or customary service; a day鈥檚 fighting; the amount of land that can be plowed by a team in one day.鈥� The development of the sound seems to be from daiwark to dawark to dark and darg. Darg is the usual form in Scotland and North England. In Australia darg means 鈥渁 fixed or definite amount of work; a work quota,鈥� a sense that is also found as a coal mining term in mid-19th century Northumberland and Durham, counties in northern England. Darg entered English in the early 15th century.
how is darg used?
I have a lang day’s darg afore me …
I do not like our slack days …. Always feel as if I were not doing my full ‘darg‘ on such; but they give me time for reading, and one is glad to secure that.
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decussate
verb (used with or without object)
to cross in the form of an X; intersect.
More about decussate
The verb decussate 鈥渢o cross in the form of an X; intersect,鈥� comes from Latin 诲别肠耻蝉蝉腻迟-, the inflectional stem of 诲别肠耻蝉蝉腻迟us, the past participle of the verb 诲别肠耻蝉蝉腻谤别 鈥渢o mark with a cross or an X.鈥� 顿别肠耻蝉蝉腻谤别 is a derivative of the noun decussis 鈥渁 bronze ten-piece coin; the number ten, a decade; an X-shaped mark鈥� (X was the Latin symbol for 10). Decussis is a reduced form of decem 鈥渢en鈥� and as (also assis) 鈥渁 copper coin or monetary unit; a penny.鈥� Decussate entered English in the second half of the 17th century.
how is decussate used?
So if you decide you want to move your right arm, or your right leg, the signal would leave the motor cortex of the left hemisphere, travel down towards your brainstem, and then at the level of the聽medulla, it would聽decussate, or cross over to the right side of the brainstem, and then continue into your spinal cord.
the leaf-stalks of the second pair decussate with those of the first, and are just so much longer as to bring up that pair nearly, or quite, to a level with the first …
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pharaonic
adjective
impressively or overwhelmingly large, luxurious, etc.
More about pharaonic
The adjective pharaonic, 鈥減ertaining to or like a Pharaoh; impressively or overwhelmingly large,鈥� is a derivative of the noun Pharaoh. Pharaoh comes via Late Latin 笔丑补谤补艒 (inflectional stem 笔丑补谤补艒n-) from Greek 笔丑补谤补峁� (inflectional stem 笔丑补谤补艒n-), from Hebrew 辫补谤士艒, from Egyptian pr–士示 (probably pronounced like the Hebrew 辫补谤士艒) 鈥済reat house鈥� (the order is the noun pr-, then the adjective 士示). In Egyptian 辫谤-士示 was not the name of a Pharaoh, but the name of a Pharaoh’s (palatial) residence, very like our own 鈥淭he White House.鈥� Pharaonic entered English toward the end of the 18th century.
how is pharaonic used?
He retired in 2017 to devote himself to new projects, notably raising funds for a somewhat pharaonic museum dedicated to East Africa鈥檚 ecology and its status as a birthplace of prehistoric man.
A teapot bunker retails for just shy of $40,000; a more pharaonic model, complete with swimming pool and hot tub, bowling alley, and home theater, goes for $8 million.
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