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• The Savoy
  …ted into a hospital for old men in the late fifteenth century, and at this time the area was given a privilege of sanctuary, so that malefactors of variou…
  2 KB (260 words) - 18:54, 2 July 2008
• Cricket
  …wins the match, provided all four inningses have been completed within the time available; however, if not all team A's wickets have fallen in their secon… …r bat nor wicket, continues so far beyond the stumps that the batsmen have time to run. (In the early 1800s the term 'bye' was sometimes applied to all r…
  13 KB (2321 words) - 20:15, 18 May 2013
• HMS Implacable
  …he most popular variety of "ship-of-the-line." ''Implacable'' was, at the time of her sinking, the second oldest vessel in the Royal Navy, behind ''Victo…
  2 KB (343 words) - 15:36, 23 January 2012
• HMS Acasta
  …s. For example, two other British 40-gun fifth-rates launched at the same time as ''Acasta'' (''Endymion'' and ''Cambrian'') both outweighed her and moun…
  5 KB (699 words) - 09:26, 24 November 2010
• WikiPOBia:Guide for the Perplexed
  …ter the final document. We intend to publish revised editions from time to time, so contributions are always welcome. Don't forget: even if you have no id…
  7 KB (1133 words) - 20:25, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Epocha
  <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">a fixed moment in time, or 'turning point'</td>
  2 KB (302 words) - 05:14, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Nata mecum consule Buteo
  …-years, by the name of the Consul who had served his one year term at that time — e.g., Horace, ''Odes III'': ''nata mecum consule Manlio'', addressed, …
  2 KB (330 words) - 05:36, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Nunc est bibendum
  <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">now is the time for drinking</td>
  2 KB (300 words) - 05:37, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus
  <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">now is the time for pounding the floor with a wild foot</td>
  2 KB (283 words) - 05:37, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Pro. tem.
  …xt-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">abbrev. of ''pro tempore'', for the time being</td>
  2 KB (252 words) - 05:44, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Singula de nobis anni praeduntur ...
  …ext-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">The years, slipping by us one at a time, are robbers, snatching away jokes, Venus (i.e., sexual love), good compan…
  2 KB (294 words) - 06:05, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Birthday suit
  <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">At that time, it meant either a suit of good clothes to wear on a special occasion — …
  2 KB (241 words) - 06:28, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Cape Horn scurvy
  …used by a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables when a ship takes a very long time to round Cape Horn??</td>
  2 KB (214 words) - 06:33, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Criminal conversation
  …ery. It is a measure of our changing language that a guardian in Maturin's time would be more concerned to know that his ward was engaged in conversation …
  2 KB (240 words) - 12:20, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Dioscorides
  …orides (c 40-90) was a Greek botanist who wrote a book on the drugs of his time, which remained the leading pharmacological text for sixteen centuries.</t…
  2 KB (213 words) - 12:24, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Iron water tanks
  <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">Around this time, iron water tanks replaced the use of wooden casks for storage of water. A…
  2 KB (244 words) - 12:59, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Liver ruined in ten days' time.
  … style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">liver ruined in ten days' time.</td>
  2 KB (207 words) - 13:08, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Menarche (Maturin's Medicine)
  <td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">The first time that a young woman menstruates.</td>
  2 KB (212 words) - 13:21, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Paracelcus
  …:diagnosis|diagnosis]] of disease and treatment of wounds was ahead of his time.</td>
  2 KB (258 words) - 13:39, 13 November 2007
• Lexicon:Physician
  At the time of the Canon, physicians were considered to be learned professionals who h…
  5 KB (674 words) - 17:00, 31 January 2009

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