(adjective) marked with small spots or patches contrasting with the background
(adjective) of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration
John turns his camera on the Hoel Chestnut, his exact coeval
John turns his camera on the Hoel Chestnut, his exact coeval
(noun) cotton cloth imported from India / (noun) a plain white cotton fabric that is heavier than muslin / (noun) any of various cheap cotton fabrics with figured patterns / (noun) a blotched or spotted animal / (noun) one that is predominantly white with red and black patches / (noun) black crappie / (noun) mountain laurel
He photographs his wife in calico and a crumpled smile, poised over the new mechanical clothes mangle
He photographs his wife in calico and a crumpled smile, poised over the new mechanical clothes mangle
(noun) a condition of weariness or debility; fatigue / (noun) a condition of listlessness; languor
The shared lassitude of casting, the C of the line as it lengthens in the air, that four-stroke swelling rhythm with the stiff hand stopping at ten and two, the ripple of the dry fly as it alights on the water
The shared lassitude of casting, the C of the line as it lengthens in the air, that four-stroke swelling rhythm with the stiff hand stopping at ten and two, the ripple of the dry fly as it alights on the water
(noun) a eucharistic rite / (noun) a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship / (noun) a customary repertoire of ideas, phrases, or observances / (noun) the eucharistic rite of Eastern churches
They hold a silent liturgy of memory and shock
They hold a silent liturgy of memory and shock
eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant
Around lights-out, Prisoner 1037 gets a little truculent at the overdone theatrics
Around lights-out, Prisoner 1037 gets a little truculent at the overdone theatrics
complicated; abstruse; curled inwards
a pollen-coated wasp crawled down the hole at the tip of a certain green fig and laid eggs all over the involute garden of flowers hidden inside
a pollen-coated wasp crawled down the hole at the tip of a certain green fig and laid eggs all over the involute garden of flowers hidden inside
(noun) ; a projecting beam or member supported at only one end / a bracket-shaped member supporting a balcony or a cornice / either of the two beams or trusses that project from piers toward each other and that when joined directly or by a suspended connecting member form a span of a cantilever bridge
From high up in this crazy cantilevered oak, looking down on the sidewalk
From high up in this crazy cantilevered oak, looking down on the sidewalk
(noun) a small group of trees, coppice, thicket
He drives them to a copse of spared hardwoods in the bottoms of a slow stream.
He drives them to a copse of spared hardwoods in the bottoms of a slow stream.
(adjective) sluggish groggy / (noun combining form) oral or written expression / (noun combining form) doctrine; theory; science
A duet ensues: the bright, pert, human come-on, followed by the logy but obliging bird, hidden in the trees.
A duet ensues: the bright, pert, human come-on, followed by the logy but obliging bird, hidden in the trees.