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- BARGOONcheap; discount
- SUSPIRETo breathe, especially to exhale
- GAZEHOUNDSynonym of sighthound (“a hound that primarily hunts by sight and speed, instead of by scent and endurance”).
- THEOSOPHA theosophist.
- BENEFICELand granted to a priest in a church that has a source of income attached to it.
- BOULTEROne who boults or sifts.
- DISTRAINTo squeeze, press, embrace; to constrain, oppress.
- EALDORMANThe chief magistrate of a shire in Anglo-Saxon England.
- HACKAMOREA kind of bridle with no bit.
- LAPPETA small decorative fold or flap, especially of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
- RATLINEThe rope or similar material used to make cross-ropes on a ship.
- VERONICAThe image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.
- EREMITEA hermit; a religious recluse, someone who lives alone.
- LAPSTRAKEA style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
- SEELINGpresent participle and gerund of seel
- HEDDLEA component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded.
- POETASTERAn unskilled poet.
- VOIVODEA local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe, especially early semi-independent rulers of Transylvania.
- COULTERA cutter, consisting of a blade in either knife form or disk form, attached to the ploughbeam of a plough to cut the sward, in front of the ploughshare and mouldboard.
- REFULGENCYThe property of being refulgent.
- COMPLAISANTCompliant.
- GASKINTrousers, hose.
- INDUEDated form of endue.
- AZIDEthe univalent N3 radical or functional group or any ester containing this group
- BOHUNKAn immigrant from Central Europe, Eastern Europe, or the Balkans, especially one who is regarded as vain, aggressively masculine, and socially unsophisticated.
- BRAZETo cover with brass, or as with brass.
- LIQUESCETo become a liquid; to liquefy.
- SONDEProbe; sound.
- TANNOYA public address system.
- THEOSOPHICOf, or relating to theosophy.
- CAPTIOUSLYIn a captious manner.
- MANDRELA round object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. shaping or enlarging a ring, or bending or enlarging a pipe without creasing or kinking it.
- PEAVYA tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end.
- POGEYA poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc.
- SONEa subjective unit of loudness for an average listener equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz sound that has an intensity 40 decibels above the listener's own threshold of hearing
- WAPENTAKEAn administrative subdivision in northern English counties, developed under Norse influence, and corresponding to hundreds in the rest of England.
- REBECAn early three-stringed instrument, somewhat like a simple violin only pear shaped, played with a bow and used in Medieval and the early Renaissance eras.
- ALPENSTOCKA stout adjustable walking stick with a metal point, used by mountain climbers and walkers in hilly or uneven terrain.
- BEDIZENTo dress or ornament (someone or something), especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner.
- LATEENA triangular fore-and-aft sail set on a boom in such way that the tack is attached to the hull of the vessel and the free end of the boom lifts the sail.
- BASTINADOA blow with a cudgel or stick.
- BRANGLEA squabble.
- SAMPANA Chinese flat-bottomed wooden boat propelled by two oars.
- TRICOTA soft knit fabric.
- ENDUESenses relating to covering or putting on. Of a person or thing: to take on (a different form); to adopt, to assume. To put on (a piece of clothing, etc.); to wear; also (followed
- PALTERTo talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions. (psychology and mediation) To give a false impression by selective use of true but misleading statements.
- PECULATIONThe wrongful appropriation or embezzlement of shared or public property, usually by a person entrusted with the guardianship of that property.
- PICAROONA pirate or picaro.
- ENCYSTTo enclose within a cyst.
- PEEWITAny of several birds: northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) laughing gull (Xema ridibundus) pewee or peewee A magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca).
- TAWSAlternative spelling of tawse.
- FORFENDTo prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
- HEBEAlternative form of Hebe (“a Jew”).
- KRAITAny of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.
- SEELGood; fortunate; opportune; happy.
- TUNSplural of tun
- CHORINEA female chorus line dancer; a chorus girl.
- JOINTUREA joining; a joint.
- KHEDIVEThe title of the hereditary monarch of Egypt from 1805–1914, nominally ruling as a viceroy of the Sultan of Turkey.