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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--macroscian This week's theme: words to describe people. macroscian (muh-KROSH-i-uhn) noun 1. One casting a long shadow. 2. One who inhabits polar regions. [From Greek macros (long) + skia (shadow).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Fix me up with the longest of shadows, Lord. And without my having to go pole-wards. ... And show that we're all up- and-coming macroscians now, with nothing to fear from prerogative." M.F. Dail; Vague Shadows of a Former Self; Trafford Publishing; 2006. X-Bonus I had a lover's quarrel with the world. -Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963

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