Word of the Day: LIMOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin limosus, from limus (mud, slime)

EXAMPLE
“…This doon, the sydes make up with structure,
And footes VIII it hold in latitude.
With barres bigge is goode to make it sure ;
Or wall it well with ragge or flyntes rude.
In square or round this werk thai may conclude.
If water ther be lymous or enfecte
Admyxtion of salt wol it correcte. …”

(Make it eight feet wide and secure it with courses of wood, the walls being of ragstone or flint. A mixture of salt will correct muddiness.)

From: Palladius on Husbondrie: from the unique MS. of about 1420 A.D. in Colchester Castle