HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it had to try twice before it can cast a shadow. Three or four centuries ago, in England, no fact was better attested than that swallows passed the winter months in the mud at the bottom of their brooks, clinging together in globular masses. They have apparently been compelled to give up the custom and account of the foulness of the brooks. Sotus Ecobius discovered in Central Asia a whole nation of people who hibernate. By some investigators, the fasting of Lent is supposed to have been originally a modified form of hibernation, to which the Church gave a religious significance; but this view was strenuously opposed by that eminent authority, Bishop Kip, who did not wish any honors denied to the memory of the Founder of his family.
2007 Update: To conserve one's potential by resting and working.
2007 Update: To conserve one's potential by resting and working.
19 comments:
Whatever.
Wait! Resting and working? What's with the working thing?
You can run but you can't hide frum Nate.
First and second. Maybe third.
I'm not sleepy. Nor tired.
Hibernate: To meditate with one's eyes closed. To renounce activities you don't enjoy all that much in the first place. Example: "He did not date that winter, owing to a state of deep hibernation."
Hibernate.....that explains it.
Hibernate: halcyon daze?
i was beginning to think you'd started your hibernation early this year, what with the time this post went up, and all. made me yearn for those halcyon days, when i could sneak a comment in before noon(ish), ESTLP-Time. ; )
Hibernate? Finally I word I'm all for. It's one long nap. Purrrrfect.
TLP grabbed the first three spots. She wasn't hibernating this morning!
Bierce's definition was quite long and boring; I'm sorry to say.
Yours was quite goodly.
Mark 3:7 WEY: Accordingly Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the Lake...(to hibernate)
I added that last part.
I'm just doing my part to help you maintain a holy blog during the week, so you can be free to sin on the weekends.
hibernate: to use last year's bacon for this year's sleep.
TLP, do we waste more potential in bed or at the office? Well done on the win, place, show finish.
Andrew, he was right not to date that winter. She blows cold.
That's it, Mo'a. How was your nap?
Neva, A bad internet connection is a form of hibernation, I guess.
Jenna, I bet you wear a spangled blindfold to bed, don't you.
Jamie Dawn, thank you for saving the sheep that fell in the ditch on Saturday.
Haha, Mule. I can do that!
I hibernate daily, from 9 to 5 at my desk.
hibernate, like heaven, keeps fresh after death only.
Hibernate -- what teachers do in the summer.
HIBERNATE, v. i. To greet your dear friend Nathaniel on the street where he lives. In Maine. In January.
OW!! Memo to whom it may concern. Never wake up a hibernating teacher. Especially one who tickles. Sheesh.
What's up with the mechanical paw sucking? That sounds vaguely pornographic. I mean, I'm allowed to use the word pornographic, aren't I? AREN'T I ????? xoxo
Nessa, what's that? I was sleeping.
Ariel, meanwhile we have showers and air conditioning.
Quilly, you really are getting smug lately.
Amoeba, the puns prefer a cold climate.
You are, of course, Mireille. But you are not allowed to explain why that particular phrase took you there.
I've tried that method and it doesn't work.
I should hibernate, after my large faux pas on the alphabetized indexing system.
Mireille, I used to know a girl who said her brother loved sucking on her toes and still did it when they grew adults. she was laughing and insisted nothing else was going on. I believed her because she was drunk.
See you in Spring, then, Actonbell?
Cooper, that was more of a faux toe. Nothing to lose or gain sleep over.
Ariel, we all know that girl.
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