Language

Sometimes I wake up grumpy; Other times I let her sleep.

Make the feathers fly = Cause a commotion

Archaic word

large = generous; free; unrestrained by decorum

Brewer's Phrase & Fable

U'na = (Truth, so called because truth is one). She starts with St. George on his adventure, and being driven by a storm into "Wandering Wood," retires for the night to Hypocrisy's cell. St. George quits the cell, leaving Una behind. In her search for him she is caressed by a lion, who afterwards attends her. She next sleeps in the hut of Superstition, and next morning meets Hypocrisy dressed as St. George.

Difficult words

coadunate - a. combine into one;, a. united. coadunation, n. coadunative, a.

Limerick

I think that I think that I am, Thought a Pentium processor, Sam. If you take me apart You will find no Descartes Because cogito ergo, I'm Sam.

Knowledge

Eddystone Lighthousesituated on a low reef of rocks submerged at high tide, 14 m. SW. of Plymouth; first built of wood by Winstanley, 1696; destroyed by a storm in 1703; rebuilt of wood on a stone base by Rudyard; burnt in 1755, and reconstructed by Smeaton of solid stone; the present edifice, on a different site, was completed by Sir James Douglas in 1882, is 133 ft. in height, and has a light visible 17½ m. off.

Quote

Anger by Source Unknown - When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes."

Tongue twister

An elephant was asphyxiated in the asphalt.

Unusual word

psychalgia = mental pain or distress