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Indeed, it is tautological. Insolation, per Oxford Dictionaries, is a technical term that refers to a. exposure to the sun's rays. b. the amount of solar radiation reaching a given area. And solar, …

This was probably the intended meaning of the 'sentence': If you follow a certain show, it will be added to your library. [Will delete if asked to by the original commenter] …

A 'flip-can' is a sort of jug that's meant to hold flip. Flip was once a slang term for "a mixture of beer and spirit sweetened with sugar and heated with a hot iron" (Green's Dictionary of Slang). Th …

'Cubalow' is also in Chelp and Chunter: How to Talk Tyke, noun, (spoken in East Yorkshire): an airing cupboard [from an attempt to write down the word cubbyhole, I would guess]

@Lambie wrote in a comment: The word is: veridical. It means truthful. I can see why you got it wrong. :) (See Merriam-Webster's definition for the word)

Per zerogravitas.net, which is a SciFi lexicon, spacell means: noun A perpetual power source of extraterrestrial inception. origin Portmanteau of ‘space’ and (power-) ‘cell’. source Roadside Picnic …

I don't know the derivation of the word, but it crops up occasionally in books of Scandinavian folk culture, as in these quotes that all discuss the same anecdote. Respectively, they are from The Fjor …

This line in Philotimus, specifically the word ‘herbycall’, has been perplexing me: Herewithall she yelded breath. Great mourninges were ex∣cited in euery corner, and wofull Philotimus swounding thré …

I think it behooves each of us to be clear about the meaning of this emotionally laden word when we use it. My definition of redlining is simple. …

Dialect Dictionary's "A suffocating smell or vapour, reek, stench; a close atmosphere; smoke" comes closer, albeit with the caveat that it's used mainly for smoke from mines—but they're similar enough in meaning …

A Chester is, indeed, a special kind of chicken. It's Brazilian, and it looks like this: (From Flavors of Brazil) As for what it is, exactly, you're not alone in wondering- there's a bit of a myster …

Yeah, it used to. That q.v. is telling you that there’s related information elsewhere in the text, so you have to ‘ctrl-f’ your way through Hobson-Jobson to the entry for griffin. We get: Griffin, Gr …

My own theory: This snippet juxtaposes a similar construction “Tickell treasure,” and this turns out to be part of a fairly well-known poem, Brittle Beauty (16th century): Brittle beauty, that Nature …

Both interpretations make sense: 'it'll be lucky if you find them' has essentially the same meaning of 'it'll be unlikely if you find them', though the first version sounds more natural to my ear. … I can't find any citation of mitch meaning lucky in any lexicon, though I was able to find it listed in the sense of 'unlikely'. …

(2.2.63), gives new and menacing meaning to the diminutive Ariel’s song: ‘Where the bee sucks, there suck I’ (5.1.188). …