Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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in Medieval English legal theory, an alternative court to the common law "courts of justice" focused on social cohesion rather than pure justice; could overturn the judgments of common law courts

(noun) a custom in some cultures in which when a child is born the father takes to bed as if bearing the child and submits himself to fasting, purification, or taboos

(noun) a mature bird or pair of birds with a brood of young / (noun) a small flock / (noun) company group

(from the Greek κρᾶσις, "mixing", "blending") is a type of contraction in which two vowels or diphthongs merge into one new vowel or diphthong, making one word out of two

the incessant product and process innovation mechanism by which new production units replace outdated ones; coined by Joseph Schumpeter in 1942 as "the essential fact about capitalism"

I think this is a NESTLE non-diary creamer?

(noun) the battlement of a castle or other building. / (noun) any of the embrasures alternating with merlons in a battlemen

(noun) a clear or yellowish flammable oily liquid mixture of phenolic compounds obtained by the distillation of tar derived from wood and especially from beech wood / (noun) a brownish oily liquid consisting chiefly of aromatic hydrocarbons obtained by distillation of coal tar and used especially as a wood preservative / (noun) a dark brown or black flammable tar deposited from especially wood smoke on the walls of a chimney / (noun) creosote bush / (verb) to treat with creosote / (noun) a resinous desert shrub (Larrea tridentata) of the caltrop family found in the southwestern United States and Mexico

(verb) to make a crackling sound; crackle

(adj) of, resembling, or relating to twilight

superfluous junk (from software development)

British: a nursery where babies and young children are cared for during the working day; North American: a representation of the nativity scene

the family of plants that inculdes cucumbers

(noun) a transverse drain

and others?

(adjective) narrowly triangular with the acute angle toward the base

able to cure disease

an ecumenical Christian program whose goal is to "bring God from the head to the heart"

(adjective) relating to or being a high-ranking dignitary of ancient Rome entitled to occupy a special chair / (adjective) of, relating to, or being a chair or seat reserved for Romans of high rank that resembles a backless stool with curved legs / (adjective) of, relating to, or being a 19th century seat with legs of a similar style

(noun plural but singular in construction) the science of communication and control theory that is concerned especially with the comparative study of automatic control systems (as the nervous system and brain and mechanical-electrical communication systems)

(noun) any of a genus (Cyclamen) of Old World plants of the primrose family having showy nodding flowers

(Greek mythology) a skillful craftsman and artist; father of Icarus; creator of the Labyrinth on Crete

(noun, informal) to lose one's temper; also an informal term for a material shed from the body of various animals (similar to dandruff)

(verb) to cause to resemble a dandy (a man unduly concerned with looking stylish and fashionable, or, dated: an excellent thing of its kind)

(adjective) marked with small spots or patches contrasting with the background