Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Quillet

QUILLET

-noun
1. a subtlety or quibble.
























He points out a flaw
A sharp quillet in the plan
The study crumbles
 

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Seminal



SEMINAL

-adj.
1. potentially capable of development
2. highly original, influential, and important
3. rudimentary or unformed
4. of or relating to semen
5. (biology) of or relating to seed
























It rises from the waters
In all its seminal splendour
Waiting to be carved
Into civilisation


Monday, 22 July 2013

Peregrinate

PEREGRINATE

-verb

1. (intr.) to travel or wander about from place to place; voyage
2. (trans.) to travel through (a place)

-adj.

3. an obsolete word for foreign

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 









Peregrinate bird
On a long pilgrimage
Peregrination
 

Sunday, 21 July 2013

Teleost



TELEOST

-noun
any bony fish of the subclass Teleostei, having rayed fins and a swim bladder: the group contains most of the bony fishes, including the herrings, carps, eels, cod, perches, etc.
-adj.
of, relating to, or belonging to the Teleostei
























Gasping for breath
Crushed by a vast family
The teleost