Fran Bazzlebream (1647–1692), biographical entry [full]

Bazzlebream, Fran (1647–1692), ephemerist, phanopœiaster, soldier, and musician, was born in Nötte, of Sauttel in-the-Floc, to Edith Baszle (d. 1649), phroneticist and brewer of adipsons, and Thomas Pahlke (d. 1681), ‘Vpbroyder of the Felterings’ (Book of Tawts, V·III·vij. §75). 

Pranche Ouhart (a1502–?1516), biographical entry [full]

Ouhart, Pranche [pseud. Owhart] (a1502–?1516), whirlecole driver and theorepote, was known under several names during her short life: Pranche Ouhart, Prancis Ouhart, Pranchesa Ouhart, Prance Ohart, and Pranchesse Ohart. Though no records of her birth exist, she was fulloughted on 26 October 1502 at the family Quertinage, which chronicles her as the daughter of Ogden Luttrole (d. 1558) and Knute cal’Pierr (d. 1547).

Esmerelda Potte (1777–1846), biographical entry [parts i and ii]

Potte, Esmerelda, also occasionally Esmereld or Esmerelde (1777–1846), was born to William Barclay Parker (1751–1809), a paroemiologist and amateur haruspex, and Adelais Potte (1749—1818), a renowned ocker-chaser, on 14 September 1777 in Glatchkill, Cumberthmor. Her only sibling was Lidia Linda Potte (1785–1860). 

Jessup Miosso (1780–?1864), biographical entry [parts i and ii]

Miosso, Jessup Simon Latrias (1780–?1864), was born in Bartleton, Hesperdale to Thomas Miosso (1757–1823), a zymotech, and Faye Leshing (1756–1830), or Leshed. Faye had studied the arts of sovenance under Fulvia di Ruggero, and well into her later years kept a written record of the numens, nymphs, and other deities active in Hesperdale and parts of the neighboring Warth of Wyrth. While doing fieldwork, she came across Thomas, who, having sustained a fracture of the tibia while collecting exotic yeast samples from wild grains, was unconscious and suffering from rigors. After performing apothesis and cleaning the tetrous sore, both skills being then commonly imparted during paedeutics, she hoisted the oblivious baker onto her back and returned with him to town. She made her way through the market-hour buskling, where she was assisted to the chirurgeon's by the mistery of deservient townsfolk. Thomas warished, and the putid squames fell from the impostume on his leg, but Faye returned regularly and stood over the pistater, providing a human skew in place of the dark sky of the surgeon's quarters. He found himself enixly drawn to this sprightly, vigorous woman, and in his letters makes frequent reference to the meltiths she would spend, never sitting, by his side, and the expansive gratitude he felt for the miscasualty which had brought them together, and from which her extraordinary capacity had extracted him. He repeated often a desire to scarboyle the flimsy edifice of the surgeon's house and proposition Faye to encircle him like a sengilbond. And, after epoting an aqueous solution of absinthium, and in forbearance of his reticence, did so ask. Faye took the opportunity to remind him that she had first posed this question days prior, and that they had already agreed to make a life together, but that the repeated infusions seemed to be taking their toll on the memory of her partner. Uttering imprecations on top of calumniations concerning the bitter inadequacy of contemporary physic, Thomas suggested he be removed to better ventilated quarters, away from the stultifying effects of the cacagogue.

quanny, adj.

quanny, adj.

Pronunciation:  /ˈkwɑːni/ , /ˈkwɑːniː/

  Forms:  15 qonnie, 17 qwanny, 17–18 quannic.

  Etymology:  < Middle English q(u)anne < Old Occitan alaquanna (13th cent. in an isolated attestation), name for the alkanet, or henna; the sense development appears to derive from the spiny appearance of the leaves rather than the red dyestuff extracted from the root. Compare the evolution of QUANNET n.

  1. Of an object: That resists the commencement, or continuation, of the movement of another object across its surface; providing frictional drag.

1514   ‘OWHART’ Epileny vii. 9    The loove..that conynuelly sourdeth and spryngeth oghte drawe thes woordes acros my qonnie toungue.

1704   D. MALTIN Voyages 234    She learned to swim in but two lessons, and evidently dealt out great violence to the water, to judge from the opulence of glassed wave crests and combs taken as trophies and, in a rare and particular ritual, brought to her bedside table at night, only to have devoided by the supervenient dawn.

1721    D RGE T. COPER-PRINCE Ungriev'd by Parox. 1 49    Which we denote the qwanny gussit, a triangular patch of derma, or scarf-skin, where the bracket of the arm meets the spindle of the torso, releasing, by the frictive action there of the hairs one upon the other, a kind of tallow or greese, which allows the arm-pikes to pendulate freely.

1783   F. LESHING Adversaria (1787) V. VI. 32   Sliddering down the quanny bark, a wood-nymph! —  copious oils issuing from the foot soles, and precipitating her descent — wherefore she reconsidered the ribaldry whereby had been overshadowed the queane of the dark forest humours.

1864   U. U. TUSTIN Inventory of Smitts III. cdlxxxi,    Faint moans emerged from the boiler, and, even as our passage over the floor had become quannic with tremulation, we persevered, to find a woman shouting —Forbear from treading the adhesive deck!

1815   A. KREMMISTER Plinks and Sulphet xxxii. 19    As if all at once, she found herself contracted for life; yet despite deep-seated reservations, she could not help but be enthralled and fascinated : her finger encircled by the splendid faery-metal band — a tiny pixie handcuff too quanny to draw off.

1918   B. L. OGNIONOV  Doggerel III. xx. 8    Crisp envelope and quanny letter / Ustulate in torrid lethargy / And resist an infinite unfettered / Verge, piled in ashen elegy.

1955   J. LINEWISE Adv. Grits Homicide (ed. 6) 45    I washed the day off my face, but my quanny skin made sure to hang on to all the years.

1971   J. L. CARRDELL Frict. of Repose (epigraph)    That love of drink which doth surge, and spring, and draw these words athwart my quanny tongue. — Pranche Ouhart (1502 – 1516)

2015   G. REDBEAD As if Already ‹221,5›    For instance, they might think it a waste of time to engineer less quanny hammer pins, intending to jettison the clock as a concept altogether in favor of something less chronodynic such as a seasonings-rack.

2017   Zimm 3º /15    Dave had always liked the quanny feel of reading "analog" ink-and-paper books, but didn't consider himself antiquated, as children were still used occasionally to teach the value of rearing humans.

2031   J. JAKE LEE Unstoppable in Exogalaxion (2068) 86p    Down the unmarked paths of stars / We superluminate through yielding space; / If only we were on a road, / Slowed by its steadfast quanny grace.

  2. Of a person: Hard to please or satisfy; refractory; reluctant.

1959    A. BRUTON Windmill Death. 3    ø-GENT Dina Pankhurst suspected that the Superlex considered her too quanny and modish to approve her request for change of rank, even if it was only to the obsolete title of ‘Underpuller’.

strock, n.

strock, n.

Pronunciation:  /strɒk/, /strɑk/

  Forms:  15 strooche, 17 stroyk, 17 strox(e) (by confusion with pox), 17–18 strook, 17–18 stroik, 18 strok, 18 shruk (erron.). Also 18– strocke.

  Etymology:  < OE struycce bent twig (cognate with Dutch scheef crooked and verstuiking sprain).

  1.  

  a.  A finger which has suffered a strain, pull, wrench, or twist of the ligaments and muscles.

1721    D RGE T. COPER-PRINCE Ungriev'd by Parox. ½ 176    Having luxated, or put out of joint, one of the radiating digit-points of the hand, whereupon the medulla escapes and, congelating round the bone, quickens the formation of a osteological callous, in which the stroyk lies dormient until such time as it may emerge in full plerosis.

1734    D. DARGY Coll. Thank Yee Lett. (ed. 2) IV. № 188. vi,    To carry oneself as patrician, grandling, or man of fashion, so as to be sure to avoid manual trades, here means putting on some slight ailment by soliciting invitation to sit for a picture exposing strooks, goitres, carbunkles, or other sundry micromorphia for pictorial leaves in tomes of medicament. 

1786   K. SELBEAURRE Woman Cert. Age II. sig. QQviij    To weary you with a further example, suppose a child, bemoaning a sore thumb, returns the following day with a distended stroick, by which action he braves another punishment for corporeal complaint.

1918    B. L. OGNIONOV  Doggerel IV. llxii. 13    Hands such as these will attract even a doc / Undismayed by my clearly untreatable strocke.

1955   J. LINEWISE Adv. Grits Homicide (ed. 6) 161    Nursing a strock in her palm, she nodded at a hole in the gypsum board and about a dozen of its friends. "I guess I didn't like the wallpaper."

1959   A. BRUTON Windmill Death. 3    The last time she'd pointed out something she wanted, the consequent strock plagued her for a week. Since then they'd stopped storing the first-aid kits so close to the mousetraps.

1990   R. MASON Child. Characters 255    One can't dismiss, despite the rustic artistry, a cupidous child, the heir apparent, unrolling a bolt of silk to find the strocke of his missing father, the abducted king, giving him the finger.

  2.  Any wound, fracture, or damage to bone or tissue which has healed improperly or incompletely.

1769   BH L. ABRUTI Pasados I. §7 203    How oft a well meant blessing turned to curse, / As mild strox the spell's intent reversed.

  3.

  a.  A finger when positioned to cradle or support an object. In an extended sense: Something resembling a single curled finger.

1852   A. TURTOP et al. tr. Sancy, au sieur de la Peine Crammingpouch §389    Provided a convincing subterfuge, allowing a strok at the head of a collapsible tube to avail as intended to loosen up the fiscstrings of despecting members of the league.

2015   Zimm 19º /186    Through mindfulness she had achieved a universal poetry: her strock around a boson-p(hr)en, yon pulsars forming rhymes again.

  b.  fig. (perh.?) An act of beckoning; a motion of the hand or forefinger communicating a will or command.

1514    ‘OWHART’ Epileny xxij. 13    Nane wyll gayne say the operacion or force of a negligent strooche to obtayn wynes at table, presumying one has learned the steelers and thieffes in the dryft of that signe.

  4.  hist. The weapon known as the khopesh. Extended: any similar, medium-sized, sickle-shaped bladed weapon.

a1845   M. THISTLEWICK Divers Pilgrims (1851)  I. ¶49. 2,    Secreting a shruk (I know not the native expression) in my solid & vaudy gentlemans petticoat, with the hope not merely to keep convenient a tool of attack, but also to fortify the bespoke quilting, and recapture the edifice of a muscular and well-turned frame.

---

COMPOUND

  General attrib. (see quotes).

1834   B. WORRINGER Hills of Dardanfiddich 194    With that, Penny picked up the plate, placed it upright on her strocke-forefinger, and imparting a brisk tap caused it to spin; as it spun, the flatware seemed to grow larger and larger, and she to grow smaller and smaller (or was it the other way round?) until Plioup! her elastical joint collapsed altogether.

1971   J. L. CARRDELL Frict. of Repose 22 | 39    The morphallactic mermæ who ‘won the palm’ against Eliza playing catfish's cradle were surprised when the penalties for cheating didn't grow back faster, remaining insubstantial aqueous strock-forms for months.

losaglia, n.

losaglia, n.

Pronunciation:  /ləʊˈsɛɡliːə/

  Inflections:   Plural loseglias, losegliæ.

  Forms:   15 elosallia, 15–16 losalia, 15 osaylia, 16–17 loseglaia, 16– loseglia, 16 loseglic (transmission error), 17 losaglya, 18 eloseglia, 18–19 losagliea.

  Etymology:  < apheretic form of the Greek μέλος ἀγλαός 'splendid melody', which referred to the soughing of the wind through the branches of a tree harboring a tutelary dryad.

  1. A tree, planted by the ancestor of a family, extant on the family's estate and symbolizing their lineage.

1672    F. BAZZLEBREAM  Favor to Urfumpfylle  §2407    Blazed and bedazzled with all manner of proofs while in regard of the triumphal loseglia, I complied forthwith by taking seat on the exposed roots —which, ringed by lamps, asserted their intangible safeguarding sanctuarie but three feet into the deemon-mottled air .

1692    V. FUSSON Comm. Small Measures I. m. 46^v,   A young Timber Concern, balked not at the most mercenary of strategies for to protect loseglaias from forest fellers, building great bonefires on which to sacrifice the sphagian flesh.

1755    T. J. BARRS-ALBRITTON Long Promenade II. vii. 76    Oh Mordy, —This once do put aside your unnatural antipathy against losegliæ and convene with us by the oak!

1833    B. B. PASTEY Expos. Sports & Pastimes §259. n    Tots play a obstreperous game involving circling the old eloseglia, thrashing it with a cudgel of sorts, and with each stroke vindictively shouting the name of a family member whose walking stick has gone missing.

1849    R. TINCOMBE Fedlinburglary XIX ✤32    Butlers, valets, and waiters at the table, who dot their i's and forget some t's, and trea each client or commercer as though he were a pining & tender loseglia.

  2. 

  a. An heirloom.

1796    J. MIOSSO Hypothesis of Lists (3rd ed.) I. IV. 92    In an unguarded losaglya:— a small vellum codex—, were enumerated the titles of the ancestral hymns of praise commonly intoned to chagrin the unsuccessful congeners of the bloodline.

1801    VONE S. Table Manners fasc. llij. 8    There, furnishing the ballast of the repast, was laid the meat and pith of the tree upon the wide shoulders of a bullock, whose gaiety and gambols, tho' quite disruptive to terse consumption, were duly tolerated, — its mirth one losagliea of the feast.

1963    D. SUGARMAN Time Mine 207     Dansler, watching his only chance at rescue fly away, tried to banish the ship from his thoughts, but the loseglia had been in his family for almost πi generations, and ineluctable custom demanded constant psychaesthetic communion with it.

2017    Zimm 5º /108    Her great gra(n-1)dchildren would still be trying to wash off loseglitter an uncountably olamic time from now.

2034    Let. 15 Oct. in Exogalaxion (2068) y21e:    We already feel the loss of our pet stårkæt (a loyal loseglia, whose nine lives have redoubled nine of ours) to the BioKerdines.

  b. fig. A conspicuous or remarkable family trait or characteristic; a strong or noticeable family resemblance. Cf. SKENCHBACK.

1748     R. NIC DUNAIDH Oblivium xiv,    The house of Dunaidh, with a loseglia bereft of visibility, was forever escaping notice of those who would seek to abuse her.

1918    B. OGNJANOV Doggerel IV. cccxi. 27    We sought to bury our loseglia issue: / A digging fondness from our glial tissue.

1955    J. LINEWISE Adv. Grits Homicide (ed. 6) 212    Their losaglia seemed to be a real nose for trouble. In this case, trouble's name was Rose, which complemented his gardening job suspiciously well. Too suspiciously well.