Mostly about the Sun System Handbook

An incarnadine line up=mystical and Macbeth
Everything is lining up pink.
I find this funny.
I did these 2 blogs with a pink theme.
First, my pink iPod.
Then a fabulous pink flower.
Then I read about a Sun blogger's (where did you go, working mother?) pink VW.
Then my blog was ref'd by Tim Bray. That thrilled me.
My main blog page does a link to Improve your Vocabulary - Word of the Day.
And what do you suppose is today's word of the day?

Word of the Day for Monday July 26, 2004

incarnadine \in-KAR-nuh-dyn\, adjective:
1. Having a fleshy pink color.
2. Red; blood-red.

transitive verb:
To make red or crimson.

Will all great NeptuneÕs ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
--Shakespeare, Macbeth

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from Italian incarnatino, which came from the Latin incarnato, something incarnate, made flesh, from in + caro, carn-, "flesh." It is related to carnation, etymologically the flesh-colored flower; incarnate, "in the flesh; made flesh"; and carnal, "pertaining to the body or its appetites."

Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for incarnadine