MDDM18: Lord Lepton

[Dave Monroe]

"'They imagine, that you and your Instrument will make
of them Nabobs, like Lord Lepton, to whose ill-reputed
Plantation you must be drawn, upon your way West,
relentlessly as the Needle.  Then, Sailor among the
Iron Isles,-- Circumfrentor Swab,-- Beware.'" (M&D,
Ch. 30, p. 301)

Main Entry: na·bob 
Pronunciation: 'nA-"bäb
Function: noun
Etymology: Urdu nawwAb, from Arabic nuwwAb, plural of
nA'ib governor
Date: 1612
1 : a provincial governor of the Mogul empire in India
2 : a person of great wealth or prominence

"We have more than our share of the nattering nabobs
of negativism." -- Spiro T. Agnew, 1970

See also "pusillanimous pussyfooters," "vicars of
vacillation" and "the hopeless, hysterical
hypochondriacs of history" ... 

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/archive/1996/dom/960930/agnew.html

Main Entry: lep·ton 
Pronunciation: lep-'tän
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural lep·ta  /-'tä/
Etymology: New Greek, from Greek, a small coin, from
neuter of leptos peeled, slender, small, from lepein
to peel -- more at LEPER
Date: circa 1741
-- see drachma at MONEY table

Main Entry: lep·er 
Pronunciation: 'le-p&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from lepre leprosy, from
Middle French, from Late Latin lepra, from Greek, from
lepein to peel; perhaps akin to Lithuanian lopas
piece, scrap
Date: 14th century
1 : a person affected with leprosy
2 : a person shunned for moral or social reasons

1 drachma = 100 lepta

http://m-w.com/mw/table/money.htm

Or used to, at any rate ...
 
Main Entry: lep·ton 
Pronunciation: 'lep-"tän
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek leptos + English 2-on
Date: circa 1929
: any of a family of particles (as electrons, muons,
and neutrinos) that have spin quantum number 1/2 and
that experience no strong forces
- lep·ton·ic  /lep-'tä-nik/ adjective 

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

"lepton (KEY)  [Gr.,=light (i.e., lightweight)], class
of elementary particles that includes the electron and
its antiparticle, the muon and its antiparticle, the
tau and its antiparticle, and the neutrino and
antineutrino associated with each of these particles.
Leptons are the lightest class of particles having
nonzero rest mass. From a technical point of view,
they are defined by their behavior, being weakly
interacting fermions, i.e., leptons can result from
the slow decay of nuclear particles such as the
neutron but do not experience a strong attraction
toward the nuclear particles; they are described by
the Fermi-Dirac statistics, which apply to all
particles restricted by the Pauli exclusion principle.
This means that two identical leptons cannot occupy
the same quantum state. However, one muon and one
electron are allowed to occupy the same state. The
muon was originally classed as a meson because of its
mass, about 200 times that of the electron, but the
subsequent reclassification of particles on the basis
of their behavior placed it with the electron in the
lepton category. The electron and the muon are almost
twins, except for their large mass difference; each is
negatively charged, has a positively charged
antiparticle, and has an associated neutrino and
antineutrino. Separate laws govern the conservation of
electron family number and of muon family number, the
number being +1 for ordinary particles of either
family and -1 for antiparticles (see conservation
laws, in physics)."

http://www.bartleby.com/65/le/lepton.html

And see as well ...

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/leptons.html

And from Edwin Danson, Drawing the Line (NY: John
Wiley & Sons, 2001," Ch. 1, "In the Reign of George
the Third," pp. 5-9 ...

"At the time, the British Empire as such did not exist
and the nineteenth-century plantation regime, with its
exceptional brutality, was still in its infancy.  To
be sure, there were slaves in America, but they were
not all black." (p. 7)

Probably ought to have done "Futurity" (p. 297) as
well, but ...

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