It is a way of describing it: horse-ear refers to the elongated, spatulalike shape of the sepals.

’Twas in sooth the Christmas party, for which the Juniors and the Freshmen had truly in slavish fashion prepared amid the general hecticity of the pre-vacation days.

There are the tiniest statements, such as claiming that Dartmouth is technically the only railway station in Britain never to have had a railway line, that need to be fact-checked (and in this case debunked - at least Hull Corporation Pier was similar).

Molybdomancy was divination by melted lead; drops of it were allowed to fall into water, and the resulting noises and hissings listened to.