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To: Gauguin who wrote (15493)12/17/1998 11:33:00 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
Had to go get the other volume of the OED for that one. Prolly the most exercise I'll get all day. From caducus, having a tendency to fall, the quality of being perishable or fleeting, frailty. Especially the frailty of old age, senility.

I think it doesn't mean mentally senile, it means the wispy quality really frail old people have. Which is probably caused by a lack of growth hormone, lack of physical activity, and so on.

Not your lacunae, or caesurae, at all?