Black Spring

Black Spring Glossary

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Insouciance

Nonchalant, unconcerned

Fuliginous

Sooty, obscure

Glabrous

Smooth, as skin

Exgurgitating

Another term for regurgitating, as food

Luminol

An almost white to yellow crystalline compound C8H7N3O2 that gives a brilliant bluish luminescence when it is treated in alkaline solution with an oxidizing agent (as hydrogen peroxide) and that is used in chemical analysis

Chancre

A sore, usually the first lesion of syphilis

Guffawing

Laughing loudly

Mercurial

Fickle

Inunctions

Rubbing of oil or ointment

Anagogic

Interpretation of a word, passage, or text (as of Scripture or poetry) that finds beyond the literal, allegorical, and moral senses a fourth and ultimate spiritual or mystical sense

Harbinger

Omen, foreshadowing something to come

Apoplexy

A state of intense rage and energy

Derelict

Homeless person

Cotyledon

The first leaf or one of the first pair or whorl of leaves developed by the embryo of a seed plant or of some lower plants (such as ferns)

Phantasmagoria

A shifting optical effect or illusion

Cloying

Disgustingly sweet or precious

Conflagration

A fire

Penchant

Predilection for something

Portly

Heavyset

Somnambulistic

Like a sleepwalker

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