Witticisms
111Andrew Cane — (fl. 1602 ndash; 1650) mdash; also Kayne, Kene, Keine, and other variants mdash; was a comic actor in late Jacobean and Caroline era London. In his own generation he was a leading comedian and dancer, and one of the famous and popular performers… …
112Talking It Over — is a novel by Julian Barnes published in 1991.It concerns a love triangle in which each of the three people concerned take it in turns to tell the story from their perspective using first person narrative. Stuart and Oliver have been best friends …
113William Palmer (meurtrier) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir William Palmer. William Palmer William Palmer Information Naissa …
114Aristophanes — Aristophanic /euh ris teuh fan ik/, adj. /ar euh stof euh neez /, n. 448? 385? B.C., Athenian comic dramatist. * * * born с 450 died с 388 BC Greek playwright. An Athenian, he began his career as a comic dramatist in 427. He wrote approximately… …
115Haggada — /heuh gah deuh/; Seph. Heb. /hah gah dah /; Ashk. Heb. /hah gaw deuh/, n., pl. Heb. Haggadoth, Haggadot, Haggados Seph. / dawt /; Ashk. / dohs/, Eng. Haggadas. Haggadah (def. 1). * * * ▪ biblical Exodus also spelled Haggadah, in Judaism …
116humour — /hyooh meuhr/, n., v.t., Chiefly Brit. humor. Usage. See or1. * * * I (Latin; fluid ) In early Western physiological theory, one of the four body fluids thought to determine a person s temperament and features. As hypothesized by Galen, the four… …
117jester — /jes teuhr/, n. 1. a person who is given to witticisms, jokes, and pranks. 2. a professional fool or clown, esp. at a medieval court. [1325 75; ME gester. See GEST, ER1] * * * …
118novelty — /nov euhl tee/, n., pl. novelties, adj. n. 1. state or quality of being novel, new, or unique; newness: the novelty of a new job. 2. a novel occurrence, experience, or proceeding: His sarcastic witticisms had ceased being an entertaining novelty …
119sculpture — sculptural, adj. sculpturally, adv. /skulp cheuhr/, n., v., sculptured, sculpturing. n. 1. the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the… …
120underlying — /un deuhr luy ing/, adj. 1. lying or situated beneath, as a substratum. 2. fundamental; basic: the underlying cause of their discontent. 3. implicit; discoverable only by close scrutiny or analysis: an underlying seriousness in his witticisms. 4 …
