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verb transitive

To persuade to something bad or hurtful; to entice, to seduce, to allure, to wheedle, to entrap.

[Etymology doubtful; by some thought to be a corruption of French aveugler = to blind, from Low Latin aboculus = blind; Latin ab = away, from, and oculus = an eye. By others referred to Italian invogliare = to give a desire to, to make one long for, from in = in, voglia = a wish; Latin volo = to wish. Puttenham, in 1587, ranks this word with those which had been quite recently introduced into the language.]

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Inveigle (n) - the contents of a burqhini.

Inbeagle: where the rabbit went.

To blind the horses. Isn’t that the subject matter of the Green play Equus, where the stable boy who is himself mentally unfit, blinds the horses in the corral?

To blind the horses. Isn’t that the subject matter of the Green play Equus, where the stable boy who is himself mentally unfit, blinds the horses in the corral?

Horses? You talk to horses?

Luke - you are right about Equus, it’s a very good play.  Still remember the “chinkle chankle” of the harnesses, and it must be nearly 40 years since I saw it.

saparris - 21 August 2009 12:10 PM

To blind the horses. Isn’t that the subject matter of the Green play Equus, where the stable boy who is himself mentally unfit, blinds the horses in the corral?

Horses? You talk to horses?

Most dumb animals I know are smarter and easier to talk to than a lot of people I know.

douglang - 21 August 2009 12:57 PM

Luke - you are right about Equus, it’s a very good play.  Still remember the “chinkle chankle” of the harnesses, and it must be nearly 40 years since I saw it.

Many plays such as that never make it to the hinterlands.  Would like to see it.
I know about it only because I read reviews of Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) starring in it, and it sounded like a good play to see. Troubled young man who
blinds the horses for some reason.

Most dumb animals I know are smarter and easier to talk to than a lot of people I know.

True that. Grandchildren are like that, too. They love you—wrinkles, gray hair, ugliness, and all.

I can only imagine.