Country Dictionary

Sirius

The brightest pair of binary stars in the night sky; one is a blue-white main sequence dwarf and it's companion is a faint white dwarf. Sirius is located in the constellation Canis Major and as a most visable star is often called the "Dog Star" The name Sirius comes from Greek and means "Scorcher"; and in Greek mythology Sirius is Orion's hunting dog. And before that, in Egypt the stars Sirius where worshiped as "Sothis".

Sirius is 8.6 light years away from us.

Sack Mead

Extremely sweet mead. When mead is made with more honey than normal, it is called sack mead.

Woah, this sack mead is sweet!

Frigid

An outdated, Victorian term used to describe women who aren't interested in sex. Only used today by drunk men in bars to explain why the woman they attempted to pick up wasn't interested.

Vala wasn't frigid, she just didn't like Bob.