A plant of various species, chiefly cruciferous. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste, and are used as a salad and antiscorbutic.

To run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement.

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

an opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting.

a digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept or object, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media. Or, by extension, any non-standard emoji-like image inserted inline in text, i.e. an image emoticon.

pellets of ice made of mostly frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes; or (chiefly UK, Ireland, New England) precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.

a small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.

Characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.

brushwood for fences and hedges.

a sweet confection served as the last course of a meal

simple past tense and past participle of grant; to give (permission or wish).

the core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled.

an excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity; the resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.

having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.