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- CLADsimple past and past participle of clothe
- CLARIONA medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.
- CRAMTo press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
- DOOMDestiny, especially terrible.
- FAINOften followed by of: glad, well-pleased. Glad, contented, or satisfied to do something in the absence of a better alternative. Compelled or obliged to.
- FEMININEOf or pertaining to the female gender.
- FRECKLEA small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
- HECTORSometimes in the form Hector: a blustering, noisy, turbulent fellow; a braggart, bully.
- HINDLocated at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
- HOVERTo keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air. Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; of a thing: to cover or surround (something). Of
- LEESThe sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.
- MEADAn alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
- PABLUMAlternative letter-case form of Pablum (“a type of cereal for infants made from cornmeal, oat, and wheat”).
- PRATA cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
- PRONGA thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool.
- SALVEAn ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
- SEREWithout moisture; dry.
- SHIREAn administrative area or district between about the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; also, a pre
- STOOPA stooping, bent position of the body.
- STREWTo distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
- SUNDERSundry; separate; different.
- TREKA journey by ox wagon.
- TROWTo trust or believe.
- WHITEN(To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
- WICKA braid or bundle of fibre or other porous material (now generally twisted or woven cotton) in a candle, kerosene heater, oil lamp, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel (such as melte
- WOADThe plant Isatis tinctoria.
- WOLDAn unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
- WRITA written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.