=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 12 CDs for FREE (plus s&h)! What are you waiting for? This great deal alone should be music to your ears. With so many titles to choose from, you�re bound to find some essential titles you just can't live without! Click for more details. http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/27996/84332/84332 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/27996/84332/84332";> AOL users click here </a> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Word of the Day for Tuesday August 14, 2001: arrant \AR-unt\, adjective: Thoroughgoing; downright; out-and-out; confirmed; extreme; notorious. More deplorable is his arrant and compulsive hypocrisy.. . Under all the chest hair, he was a hollow man. --J. D. McClatchy, review of Crux: The Letters of James Dickey, [1]New York Times, December 19, 1999 I think a pilot would be a most arrant coward, if through fear of bad weather he did not wait for the storm to break but sank his ship on purpose. --Georges Minois, [2]History Of Suicide, translated by Lydia Cochrane [T]he moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. --Shakespeare, [3]Timon of Athens The entire story is a load of arrant nonsense. --Victor Pelevin, [4]Buddha's Little Finger, translated by Andrew Bromfield _________________________________________________________ Arrant was originally a variant spelling of errant, meaning "wandering." It was first applied to vagabonds, as an arrant (or errant) rogue or thief, and hence passed gradually into its present sense. It ultimately derives from Latin iter, "a journey." References 1. http://www.nytimes.com/ 2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801866472/lexico 3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671669354/lexico 4. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670891681/lexico _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: [email protected] To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2001, Lexico LLC.
