Many, many (many, many, many) moons ago, a young woman I went to school with told me that her main reason for attending college was to get her "MRS degree in Armenian Husbandry." I was never clear on how she was going to do that since she was a home ec major and most of her classes were all female.
Why Armenian though? Nothing against the nation or its people/diaspora, it just seems awfully specific.
Bruxing: grinding of the teeth. Rats do it because of their constantly-growing incisors and it is the main situation in which their eyes boggles, due to a muscle along the underside of the upper jaw that is connected to the eyes and is stimulated when grinding. Like this:
I was wondering recently—what did early cavemen (and women) do about their fingernails, toenails and hair? Did they just keep growing the way ours do today if we don't cut them (that isn't true for apes as far as I know, when did it change)? Did they just rely on nails breaking off from the rough life they lived? And tie their hair up, or saw through it with flint knives? Burn it off? Inquiring minds want to know.
There was a huge Armenian population in the area where I attended school, and fifty years ago, people my age were under pressure from parents and grandparents to marry within the Armenian Church.
Partially nails breaking I imagine. But also they had cutting tools that could be used for hair or nails. https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/did-cavemen-cut-their-hair
And maybe they kept pet snapping turtles that they trained for the purpose? Ala the Flintstones. Hey, thinking outside the box here...
Not sure about hair, but if you've ever spent much time in manual (hand and arm) labor you would have found your nails are pretty self-trimming. Sometimes painfully so, but...
Inure verb 1. accustom (someone) to something, especially something unpleasant. "these children have been inured to violence"
Recrimination noun an accusation in response to one from someone else. "there are no tears, no recriminations"
Vivisection noun the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of experimentation or scientific research (used only by people who are opposed to such work). "the abolition of vivisection"
Important distinction that needs to be understood: The words sensual and sensuous are often used interchangeably, but careful writers would do well to think before using one or the other. The terms share the root sens-, which means to arouse the senses. Sensual has referred to gratifying carnal, especially sexual, senses since before 1425. Sensuous is believed to have been created by John Milton in 1641 to mean relating to the senses instead of the intellect without the sexual connotation. Source The memory trick I use to keep them separated (and as the song says, you gotta keep 'em separated!): Sensu-us. Us meaning 2 people, with a sexual thing going on. Sensu-wall. I imagine someone standing close against a wall, exploring it with their hands. Feeling the textures, the temperature, and the solidity of it. Looking closely at it, smelling and tasting it's surface. Careful though, this one can shade over into the sexual and end up just confusing you. Maybe better to imagine a scientist examining pieces of a wall under a microscope or something, because nobody is going to imagine a scientist sexing up particles. Well, now that I said that...
For my money, torturous/tortuous is even worse. That one extra "r" in otherwise identical words making the difference between "crooked or winding" and "like torture". Trying to keep them straight is...whichever one means "like torture".
I learned a new word: silico Used with 'in' it means in computer models as opposed to in vitro and in vivo. in silico, in vitro and in vivo
Torpor noun a state of physical or mental inactivity; lethargy. Solvency noun the possession of assets in excess of liabilities; ability to pay one's debts.
That's the clean definition. The word is more popularly used to describe somebody who engages in orgies. A carryover from Roman times, where I guess they had a lot of orgies in Sybaris.
