word o' de day.

[scottobear]

gnomon (NO-mon) noun

1. The raised arm of a sundial that indicates the time of day by its shadow.

2. The remaining part of a parallelogram after a similar smaller parallelogram has been taken away from one of the corners.

[From Latin gnomon, pointer, from Greek, from gignoskein, to know.]

Comments

[krussell.livejournal.com]

to my way of thinking, there is no better word out there than "parallelogram".

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

You may be right... it flows from the lips like a honeyed kiss of a lover.