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elevenses : (Britain, informal) A short mid-morning break taken around eleven o'clock for a drink or light snack.

heresiarch : (religion) The founder of a heresy, or a major ecclesiastical proponent of such a heresy. German friar and theologian Martin Luther, who sparked off the Protestant Reformation and was previously regarded by the Roman Catholic Church as a heretic, was born on this day 535 years ago in 1483.

arrowroot : (countable, uncountable) Maranta arundinacea from the Marantaceae family, a large perennial herb native to the Caribbean area with green leaves about 15 centimeters long with white stripes. (countable, uncountable) Usually preceded by an attributive word: some other plant the rhizomes of which are used to prepare a substance similar to arrowroot (sense 3), such as Zamia integrifolia (Florida arrowroot) or Pueraria montana var. lobata (Japanese arrowroot or kudzu). (uncountable) A starchy substance obtained from the rhizomes of an arrowroot plant used as a thickener.

wendigo : (mythology) A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.

endmember : A member at one end of a range or series made up of similar members. (mineralogy, specifically) A mineral that occurs at one end in a range of solid solutions.

audient : Listening, paying attention.

recension : A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey. A critical revision of a text. A text established by critical revision. A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.

cloud-headed : Having one's head in the clouds: prone to daydreaming, or thinking impractically.

amigurumi : (uncountable, knitting) The Japanese art of crocheting or knitting stuffed yarn toys, typically creatures having oversized heads. (countable, knitting) Such a stuffed toy crocheted or knitted from yarn. Culture Day is observed in Japan on this day to promote culture, the arts, and academic endeavour.