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Thursday, September 6, 2012


Word of the Day
Thursday, September 06, 2012
piceous
   \ PIS-ee-uhs \  , adjective;
1.
Inflammable; combustible.
2.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
3.
Zoology.  Black or nearly black as pitch.
Quotes:
In the silent and piceous  hour just before dawn,
they advanced at a slow trot, fanning out through
the slave quarters and into the yard that divided
the ginhouse, the mill, and the buildings where
Canning and Islept unaware.
-- Geraldine Brooks, March




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