Word for the Day, Tuesday January 10, 2012

[SoothingDave]

Word For The Day, Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

tessera{tes-er-uh}

-n, plural tesserae

1. one of the small pieces used in mosaic work.
2. a small square of bone, wood, or the like, used in ancient times as a token, tally, ticket, etc.

[1640–50; < Latin < Greek (Ionic) tésseres four].

[SoothingDave]

Thanks to VDH for this word.

[xsmommy]

good morning. i think her middle name was Rae.

[SumProVita]

In the overall tapestry of life, Barack Obama is nothing more than a dark, miniscule tessera that has ultimately been ill-fitted into some obscure corner.

[SoothingDave]

Barack Obama is nothing more than a dark,

[NicknamedBob]

Tessera - "a small square of bone"

That and a hank o' hair will get you a walking, talking Honeycomb, if you play your tokens right.

[NeoCaveman]

Thanks to VDH

The recording device or the sexually transmitted disease?

[secret garden]

[secret garden]

Where geometry and art collide in cool fashion. Tessellation.

[SumProVita]

Lol! That’s an assumption. I was using the adjective “dark” to refer to evil, to hidden agendas that do not see the LIGHT of day with the media, etc.

[SoothingDave]

The classicist and gentleman farmer.

[secret garden]

Today's earworm is brought to you because we recently watched the back episodes of New Girl, which is pretty funny, especially the handbell episode.

[NeoCaveman]

The first tessera of the New Hampshire primary voting process already finished.

[xsmommy]

i have no desire to camp. none. zero. zilch. nada. would rather saw off my own limb than do it.

[afraidfortherepublic]

The tesserae of opinions in the landscape of conservative thought has not yet congealed on a Presidential nominee.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

If it’s a leg, can I have it?????

[SoothingDave]

You want to make a leg lamp?

[left that other site]

The negative ads compounded themselves in a swooping tesseratura of bile and vicious rumor.

[Diogenesis]

If each Obama-Marxist Czar is a 'tessera',
then what is the entire constellation of Communist Czars?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Great idea! It will be less Fragile using a real leg