Namely, 63

NAMELY

eponyms (EP-uh-nimz)

words based on or derived from a person's name.

First Known Use: mid-19^th century

“What’s in a Name?”

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, 2.2­­

63: excelsior: curly wood shavings used as packing material (from the American Excelsior Company, which first began producing this product in 1888; they derived the name from Latin, higher comparative of excelsior, ever upward = high; earliest known use of word, 1868)

They packed him in excelsior—

They’d killed him—but were very kind.

They shipped him off to Ecuador—

A casket that was tightly twined.

They bore him to an Andes peak—

They dug a hole there in the ice—

They dumped him in—these guys weren’t meek—

They left. (They were not very nice.)