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Provided by the compucert - To bend the knee or touch one knee to the ground, as in worship.
- To be servilely respectful or obedient; to grovel.
Genuflect is from Late Latin genuflectere, from Latin genu, "knee" + flectere, "to bend."
- The hazy feeling one gets after spending too much time shopping at large chain stores including but not limited to Walmart, Home Depot, and Bed, Bath and Beyond. Characterized by a headache, dry eyes, blurred vision, blank stare, sore feet.
Jane had to return home immediately, take two tylenol, and a large glass of water as her day of shopping was beginning to result in a textbook case of mass merchanditis.
Trivia
How many checkers are there in a backgammon game?
- 30. Each player gets 15.
- Erie Canal: 160-mile (257 km.) waterway opened, offering a route from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River (1825)
- Gunfight at the OK Corral: legendary Wild West shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, killed three, wounded three, inspired movies (1881)
- heart transplant: neonatal infant "Baby Fae" was given a baboon's heart by Dr. Leonard L. Bailey; she lived for 21 days (1984)
- François Mitterrand (1916-1996): former president of France
- Hillary Rodham Clinton (61): US Senator and former first lady who lost this year's bid to be the Democratic nominee for president
- Jon Heder (31): actor, Napoleon Dynamite; also, actors Bob Hoskins (66), Jaclyn Smith (63), D. W. Moffett and James Pickens Jr. (both 54), Rita Wilson (52), Dylan McDermott (47), Cary Elwes (46), Tom Cavanagh (45) and Anthony Rapp (37)
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