(astronomy) An optical effect, occurring during the transit of an object in front of the Sun, by which light is bent around the object, causing it to look stretched out.

(simile, of members of a group, especially soldiers) To die en masse, one after the other.

A table having a hinged section that can be fixed in a horizontal position to extend the table and folded down when not needed.

(chiefly US) The notion that one drop of black blood (i.e., any African ancestry at all) makes a person black.

(idiomatic) Write and send (someone) a note or telegram.

plural of bird dropping spider

Celaenia excavata, of New Zealand. / Arkys curtulus, of eastern Australia. / Mastophora (bolas spiders), of the New World.

(idiomatic) somebody was very surprised.

plural of artificial tear drop

(colloquial) To lose one's cool; to suddenly break out in anger.