1. (FIDDLE-STICK noun). The bow strung with horsehair with which the fiddle is played. the devil rides on a fiddle-stick: = here's a fine commotion.(OED)

1. trans. To make obdurate (OBDURATE adj. 1); stubbornly unapologetic; to harden in wickedness, or against moral influence; to harden the heart. (Oxford English Dictionary)

From French, Billet-Doux means "love letter" (billet meaning "note", and doux meaning "sweet"). (OED)

"A case or bag for carrying clothing and other belongings when travelling; (originally) one of a form suitable for carrying on horseback," (OED).

"The place in which the Cardinals meet in private for the election of a Pope," (OED).

Another way to spell lantern, mainly because the lanterns glass was made of boiled horns.

A male lover (OED).

A term for a 17th century Royalist; “a name given to those who fought on the side of Charles I in the war between him and the Parliament” (OED).

A servant or an attendant, usually male. (OED)

A thought or circumstance that troubles the mind or conscience; a doubt, uncertainty or hesitation in regard to right and wrong, duty, propriety, etc.; esp. one which is regarded as over-refined or over-nice, or which causes a person to hesitate where others would be bolder to act.

A disreputable or dissolute person; a rogue

censorious (adj.) - severely critical, judgmental, condemnatory

A woman who has lost her chastity; a harlot or strumpet; a kept mistress

A woman that hires her person, a prostitute

One employed in pandering to sexual debauchery; a procurer or procuress; orig. in a more general sense, and in the majority of passages masculine, a ‘go-between,’ a pander; since c1700 only feminine, and applied to a procuress, or a woman keeping a place of prostitution; a woman in charge of a brothel

An act or spell of petty talk; an item of small talk or gossip

Wag (n.) - a joker, mischievous person

arch Wag (n.) - an extreme joker

Legal term also called a bill "not found." Meaning there is insufficient evidence of charges brought forth - the indictment is dropped and the accused is released.

A position or juncture in which one can do no more, an extremity, ‘a hopeless exigence’ (Johnson). Usually in phrase at a dead lift. (Very common in the 17th c.: now arch. or dial.) (OED)

A person who curries favour with another, esp. by informing against someone else; a flatterer, a sycophant; a telltale. (OED)

An abbreviation of God's life (see god n. and int.Phrases 3b(a)) used as a petty oath or exclamation. (OED)

Their key elements of a "good learning environment" - sociality, joint activity, sharing knowledge, concrete successes, self-guidance and organization.

I understand these elements to be related closely to those described in Lave and Wenger's discussion of LPP and apprenticeship learning

I like thinking of this game play as "tangled up with other cultural practices." I see this as multisited work, and actually helps me understand the interconnectedness of multisited work better.

Clear definition of "guided participation" - refers to both the role of the adult or teacher and the active participation of the learner

to prevent something from happening