"Barbiton" is a word in ENGLISH
An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.
I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.
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A young teenaged girl was a prostitute and, for obvious reasons, kept it a secret from her grandma. One day, the police raided a brothel and arrested a group of prostitutes, including the young girl. The prostitutes were instructed to line up in a straight line on the sidewalk. Well, who should be walking in the neighborhood, but little old Grandma. The young girl was frantic. Sure enough, Grandma noticed her young granddaughter and asked curiously, "What are you lining up for, dear?" Not willing to let grandma in on her little secret, the young girl told her that some people were passing out free oranges and that she was lining up for some. "Mmm, sounds lovely," said Grandma. "I think I'll have some myself," she continued as she made her way to the back of the line. A police officer made his way down the line, questioning all of the prostitutes. When he got to Grandma, at the end of the line, he was bewildered. "But you're so old... how do you do it?" Grandma replied, "Oh, it's quite easy, sonny... I just remove my dentures and suck 'em dry!"
A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc.
Read the complete definitionof old; of an ancient date
Read the complete definitionLat An. officer having charge of acta, public records, registers, jour-nals, or minutes; an officer who entered on record the …
Read the complete definitionThis takes place where a person dies seised of an inheritance, and, before the heir or devisee enters, a stranger, …
Read the complete definitionIn ancient English law. A renunciation of one's country, a species of self-imposed banishment, under an oath never to return …
Read the complete definitionA mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.
Read the complete definitionwithout impeachment of waste; without accountability for waste; without liability to suit for v/aste. A clause anciently often in-serted in …
Read the complete definitionIncomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only …
Read the complete definitionThe act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.
Read the complete definitionLeaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
Read the complete definitionA fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.
Read the complete definitionThe levelers in the reign of Hen. I., who acknowledged no head or superior. Leges H. 1; Cowell. Also certain …
Read the complete definitionAnciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards.
Read the complete definitionZTGHT, or ACRE. A camp or field fight; a sort of duel, or judicial combat, anciently fought by slngie combatants, …
Read the complete definitionA kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation.
Read the complete definitionThe innermost sanctuary or shrine in ancient temples, whence oracles were given. Hence: A private chamber; a sanctum.
Read the complete definitionA magistrate in ancient Rome, who had the superintendence of public buildings, highways, shows, etc.; hence, a municipal officer.
Read the complete definitionApplied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee …
Read the complete definitionIn ancient law. To take ln and feed the cattle of straugers in the king’s forest, and to collect the …
Read the complete definitionAn assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.
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