Associations to the word «Decuman»
Wiktionary
DECUMAN, adjective. (obsolete) large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order.
DECUMAN, noun. (obsolete) An extraordinarily large billow.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.