a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person.

a tau (T-shaped) cross with a loop at the top, used as a symbol of generation or enduring life.

any member of the family Hominidae, consisting of all modern and extinct humans and great apes, and all their immediate ancestors.

a group of stars.

overparticular; fussy.

a sepulchral monument erected in memory of a deceased person whose body is buried elsewhere.

a soup or sauce made with beaten eggs, lemon juice, and usually chicken broth.

to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.

a cold and dry southwesterly wind that sweeps down over the pampas of Argentina from the Andes.

somewhat salty or briny, as the water in an estuary or salt marsh.