plural of love in a puff

A flowering vine with large, hollow seedpod and round seeds with a heart-shaped mark; Cardiospermum halicacabum

In some places and not everywhere; of a patchy nature.

A period of cooling (not a true ice age) that followed the Medieval Warm Period and continued from about 1300 to about 1850.

(informal) Injured or damaged; with the appearance of having been treated roughly.

Of a person, not yet conceived, particularly when referring to a time period preceding their conception.

morally, but not necessarily legally.

Alternative spelling of in foro conscientiae

The process by which components of a system are exercised prior to being placed in service (and sometimes before assembly), forcing certain failures to occur under supervised conditions.

A phenomenon which occurs at the interface of land and water when partial frozen over bodies of water with broken ice encounters a constant wind that blows onto shore, blowing the pieces of ice onto shore, and piling up, driving further inland. The ice shove can pile up and crush shoreside buildings or push them off their foundations.