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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--lariat This week's theme: words with a built-in definite article. lariat (LAIR-ee-uht) noun A long, light rope with a running noose, used to catch cattle, horses, etc. Also known as a lasso. [From Spanish la reata (the rope), from reatar (to tie again), from re- (again) + atar (tie), from Latin aptare (join, fit), from aptus (apt, fit).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "[Will] Rogers, often referred to as the nation's "poet lariat", was about a lot more than rope tricks." Kerry Clawson; Roped Into Revue on Poet Lariat; Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio); Jun 30, 2002. X-Bonus Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money. -Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)

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