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Posts in series two: anatomy
earless
 
 

โ€œYour Lord is either balde, mangie, or earelesse.โ€
— Anthony Copley ยท 'Wits fittes and fancies; also Loves owle' (1595)

earless, adj.2 (and n.) 1. Having no ears. a. Of humans and animals.

dimple
 
 

โ€œThree letters in her hand, and three thousand dimples in her cheeks and chin!โ€
— Fanny Burney ยท 'Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay' (1784)

dimple, n. 1. a. A small hollow or dent, permanent or evanescent, formed in the surface of some plump part of the human body, esp. in the cheeks in the act of smiling, and regarded as a pleasing feature.

callipygous
 
 

โ€œShe floats down from a cloud..and hovers callipygously an inch or so off the floor.โ€
— J. N. Sansonese ยท 'Body of Myth' (1994)

callipygously, adv. Designating a person who has well-shaped or finely developed buttocks; of or relating to such a person; = callipygian adj.

barbatulous
 
 

โ€œOld men wilbe ashamed, to be ouercome in counsayle... by one that is Barbatulousโ€
— William Shakespeare ยท 'Timon of Athens' (c. 1600)

โ€  barbatulous, adj. Obsolete. Having but a small beard.

anatomy
 
 

โ€œAs if a man should dissect his own body, and read the anatomy lecture.โ€
— Andrew Marvell ยท The poems and letters of Andrew Marvell (1667

anatomyn. I. The process, subjects, and products of dissection of the body. 1. a. The artificial separation of the different parts of a human body or animal (or more generally of any organized body), in order to discover their position, structure, and economy; dissection.