Robert Frost was born March 26, 1874. The Pulitzer Prize-winner is remembered for his words on weather, beauty, and nature. The poet's words — some of them familiar to nearly every American — appear at 32 entries in the Unabridged Dictionary. Here's a sampling.
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artless adjective
"the land vaguely realizing westward but still unstoried, artless"
baby-sit verb
"I had to baby-sit with my grandchildren"
back along adverb (dialect)
"a good old-timer dating back along"
courage noun
"courage to act on limited knowledge, courage to make the best of what is here and not whine for more"
egregious adjective
"it is rather a gregarious instinct to keep together by minding each other's business ... we must be preserved from becoming egregious"
lodge verb
"the limit of my ambition is to lodge a few pebbles where they will be hard to get rid of"
luminary adjective
"at an unearthly height one luminary clock against the sky"
make verb
"good fences make good neighbors"
rascal noun archaic
"he was rich and I was still a rascal"
rural adjective
"poetry is very, very rural"
sanctimonious adjective
"if it only takes some of the sanctimonious conceit out of one of those pious scalawags"
so fashion adverb (dialect)
"I'll knock so fashion and peep round the door"
swish adverb
"one day when the foliage all went swish with autumn"
tote road noun
"the tote road to our clearing where we lived"
up adjective
"asked was there anything up attic"
wend verb
"through the fields and the woods and over the walls I have wended"
