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.
Alexander Pope