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indolence | beaver |

As a noun indolence

is habitual laziness or sloth.

As a proper noun beaver is

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indolence

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Habitual laziness or sloth.
  • * 1814 , , Mansfield Park , ch. 11:
    • "It is indolence', Mr. Bertram, indeed. ' Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen."
  • * 1912 , , The Sign at Six , ch. 19:
    • [H]er whole figure expressed a tense vibrant life in singular contrast to the apparent indolence of the men at whom she was talking.
  • * 2001 Sept. 10, , " In Praise of Lasiness," Time (retrieved 24 March 2014):
    • [N]ow, after five weeks of doing nothing, I am an authority on the subject of indolence and glad to share my views with you.

    Synonyms

    * indolency

    Related terms

    * indolent

    beaver

    English

    (wikipedia beaver) (Castor)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) bever, from (etyl) . Related to brown and bear.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An aquatic rodent of the genus Castor , having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
  • A hat, of various shape, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Prescott)
    • a brown beaver slouched over his eyes
  • (coarse, slang) The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman.
  • The fur of the beaver.
  • Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
    • Derived terms
    * American beaver * European beaver
    Related terms
    * bank beaver * beaver away * beavered * beaver rat * busy as a beaver * eager beaver
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lower face-guard of a helmet.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxvii:
  • *:With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.
  • *1819 , (Walter Scott), (Ivanhoe) :
  • *:Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver , or lower part of his helmet, announced that he quaffed it, “To all true English hearts, and to the confusion of foreign tyrants.”
  • *1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), , Faber & Faber 1992, p.128:
  • *:As each one brings a little of himself to what he sees you brought the trappings of your historic preoccupations, so that Monsieur flattered you by presenting himself with beaver up like Hamlet's father's ghost!

    • Etymology 3

    Alternative forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • References

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