Gamp

n. Chiefly British
A large baggy umbrella.


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[After the umbrella of Mrs. Sarah Gamp, a character in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens.][/b]

Cantharis

1. A brilliant green blister beetle (Lytta vesicatoria or Cantharis vesicatoria) of central and southern Europe.
2. cantharides (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A toxic preparation of the crushed, dried bodies of this beetle, formerly used as a counter-irritant for skin blisters and as an aphrodisiac.

Voltaic

1. Of, relating to, or being electricity or electric current produced by chemical action; galvanic.
2. Producing electricity by chemical action.


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[After VoltaCount, Alessandro.]

voltaic

\Vol*ta"ic\, a. [Cf. F. volta["i]que, It. voltaico.] 1. Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity.

2. Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc.

Voltaic arc, a luminous arc, of intense brilliancy, formed between carbon points as electrodes by the passage of a powerful voltaic current.

Voltaic battery, an apparatus variously constructed, consisting of a series of plates or pieces of dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, arranged in pairs, and subjected to the action of a saline or acid solution, by which a current of electricity is generated whenever the two poles, or ends of the series, are connected by a conductor; a galvanic battery.

Voltaic circuit.

Voltaic couple or element, a single pair of the connected plates of a battery.

Voltaic electricity.

Voltaic pile, a kind of voltaic battery consisting of alternate disks of dissimilar metals, separated by moistened cloth or paper. See 5th Pile.

Voltaic protection of metals, the protection of a metal exposed to the corrosive action of sea water, saline or acid liquids, or the like, by associating it with a metal which is positive to it, as when iron is galvanized, or coated with zinc.

looks like your alone on this one mate......

Geezerbird (in a Scottish accent):-

highland speek meaning lady boy or he-she.
Recently heard at Killin on Loch Tay.



Och aye the noo! :joker:

geezerbird... I can see that catching on Don't mind been alone on this one; is as much for me as anyone else, a new word each day...

I just don't know that many long words

Begum

n.
1. A Muslim woman of rank.
2. Used as a form of address for such a woman.


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[Urdu begam, from East Turkic begüm, first person sing. possessive of beg, master, mistress.]


Begum

\Be"gum\, n. [Per., fr. Turk., perh. properly queen mother, fr. Turk. beg (see Beg, n.) + Ar. umm mother.] In the East Indies, a princess or lady of high rank.

Begum

n : a Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan

sequestrate (see-kwis-trayt or si-kwes-trayt)
verb

1 confiscate.

2 take temporary possession of (a debtor's estate etc).

sequestration noun, sequestrator noun

Oh, that's a good one. I've heard of sequester but didn't know you could use it like that...