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“This little seat (equuleus) prevented the weight of the body from completely tearing the nail-pierced hands, and it helped to support the sufferer.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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Selected Terms from Falconer's New Un...
1815 edition; ed. William Burney (London: Chatham Publishing, 2006).
widows' men, ballatoon, boomkin, leefange, falconet, maculae, lepus, koff, pardo, periagua, dingass, saik and 238 more...
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Torture
Apparatus and methods of being not very naice at all.
branks, larrup, television, equuleus, waterboarding, enhanced interrog..., strappado, bastinado, abacination, extraordinary ren..., scaphism, pillory and 21 more...
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andromeda, antlia, apus, aquarius, aquila, ara, aries, auriga, boötes, caelum, camelopardalis, cancer and 76 more...
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the mysterious flame of queen loana
what happens when a book has been translated from the italian and cognates have been used for the latinate words.
nadar, settle, pylorus, extrasystole, filobus, cenotaph, cuirassier, dragoon, zouave, lalique, capon, colloquy and 40 more...
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hernesheir In Roman antiquity, a kind of rack used for extorting confessions from suspected or accused persons. --from the CD&C, under Equuleus. Dec 14, 2011
chained_bear "... the Horse's Head, in astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, whose stars in Flamstead's sic; John Flamsteed's catalogue are ten."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 141 Oct 11, 2008
bilby Wondering if it has anything to do with horses. Nov 24, 2007
tumbel "...with the victim hoisted and then dropped buttocks-first onto a cushion of whetted iron spikes..." p 108 Nov 24, 2007