a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
1830, from Fr. puits artésien "wells of Artois," French province where such wells were first bored 18c. by Bélidor (1698-1761), from O.Fr. Arteis, from Atrebates, a tribe who lived in northwestern Gallia. Cf. Arras.