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- SHIELA shepherd's hut or shieling.
- WEARISHTasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
- WILYSly, cunning, full of tricks.
- WYNDA narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses.
- YEOMANAn official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a yeoman of the guard, a member of a ceremonial bodygua
- YERDA yard, plot of ground around a building or fenced paddock.
- ACHIOTEA tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree.
- BOYGFormless hindrances personified as an enemy
- BOYGSFormless hindrances personified as an enemy
- TAWPIEfoolish or awkward youngster
- BESPRENTsimple past and past participle of besprenge
- ELDRITCHUnearthly, supernatural, eerie, preternatural.
- EORLAn Anglo-Saxon of noble rank; a nobleman ranking above a thane; alderman.
- FEISTA small, snappy, belligerent mixed-breed dog; a feist dog.
- FURZEA thorny evergreen shrub, with yellow flowers, Ulex gen. et spp., of which Ulex europaeus is particularly common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland.
- LINCHA ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.
- MIDSTA place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.
- SHAWA thicket; a small wood or grove.
- THIBLEA stick for stirring food.
- THRYMSAAn ancient coin, one of the earliest Anglo-Saxon gold tremisses.
- TWAYTwo.
- TWIRETo glance shyly or slyly; look askance; make eyes; leer; peer; pry.
- WITANThe Anglo-Saxon national council or witenagemot.
- WITHALTogether with the rest; besides; in addition.
- WITHYAn osier (Salix viminalis), a type of willow.
- WRAXLETo wrestle.
- WYCHA brine spring or well.
- AGLETAlternative form of aiglet.
- ASTONYTo astound; to paralyse, to stun.
- AVOWRYThe act of avowing and justifying in one's own right the distraining of goods.
- BUCKRAMA coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wra
- DERAYDisorder, disturbance.
- DESCRIVETo describe.
- FLETCHEROne who fletches or feathers arrows.
- INDORSEArchaic spelling of endorse.
- SCRYTo magically or supernaturally look into or (as an entertainer) predict (the future), using crystal balls or other objects.
- TABARDA silk banner attached to a bugle or trumpet.
- ABUTTo touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)
- FLOEA low, flat mass of floating ice.
- WRAITHA ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
- BAIRNA child or baby.
- BEHESTA command, bidding; sometimes also, an authoritative request; now usually in the phrase at the behest of and at one's behest.
- BETHINKTo think about, to recollect.
- BOUTA period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant, like an illness.
- BURGA city or town. Martinsburg, West Virginia.
- BURGHa small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
- GASTTo frighten.
- LINDThe lime tree, or linden tree.
- TWIFOLDTwofold.
- WITETo regard (someone) as guilty; to accuse; to blame; to fault.
- YAREReady; prepared.
- YCLEPTCalled (by a certain name), named.
- BETIDEOften used in a prediction (chiefly in woe betide) or a wish: to happen to (someone or something); to befall.
- BLITHECasually careless or indifferent; showing a lack of concern; nonchalant.
- COMELYAttractive; visually pleasing; good-looking. Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.
- 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.
- FIKETo feign; dissemble; flatter.
- HIVEA structure, whether artificial or natural, for housing a swarm of honeybees.
- HOLTA small piece of woodland or a woody hill; a copse.
- INGLEAn open fireplace.
- KYRIEA short prayer or petition including the phrase kyrie eleison, meaning “Lord, have mercy”.
- MOORAn extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.
- NIGHNear, close by.
- OVERFinished; ended; concluded.
- PUGILISTOne who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer.
- QUEANA woman, now especially an impudent or disreputable woman; a prostitute.
- SHRIFTThe act of going to or hearing a religious confession.
- WHILOMAt some time in the past; formerly, once upon a time.
- WHINGETo whine; to complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner.
- GALYAKA flat, glossy kind of fur obtained from a newborn or stillborn lamb or kid (goat).
- NAIKA lord or governor in South Asia.
- AGLEYWrong, awry, askew, amiss, or distortedly.
- BIRSEbristle
- BOKETo thrust or push out; butt; poke.
- CLOOTIEA piece of rag.
- COUTHFamiliar, known; well-known, renowned.
- QUEYA heifer.
- SCROGA stunted or shrivelled bush.
- FAROLITOSmall paper lantern, especially in northern New Mexico, United States.
- IGUANAA green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet.
- QUEBRACHOAny of several trees of southern South America with produce very hard wood rich in tannin, especially those of the genus Schinopsis.
- GYBETo shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind.
- LUMBANGThe kukui tree.
- CANTREDAlternative form of cantref.
- MITHERTo make an unnecessary fuss, moan, bother.
- PALFREYA small horse with a smooth, ambling gait, popular in the Middle Ages with nobles and women for riding (contrasted with a warhorse).
- ABIGAILA lady's maid.
- ACAROLOGISTA specialist in acarology - the study of ticks and mites.
- ACIDOPHILAn eosinophil; a white blood cell responsible for combating infection by parasites in the body.
- ACIDOPHILEAn organism that lives and thrives under acidic conditions; a form of extremophile. A plant that thrives in relatively acid soil.
- ADROITLYDeftly; in an adroit manner.
- AEQUORINA photoprotein, isolated from luminescent jellyfish and other marine organisms, composed of two distinct units: the apoprotein apoaequorin and the prosthetic group coelenterazine.
- AGENObsolete spelling of again.
- ALKYLAny of a series of univalent radicals of the general formula CnH2n+1 derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons. In other words, an alkane minus one hydrogen atom.
- ARGONAUTAny of several species of shelled octopods of the family Argonautidae (of which only the genus Argonauta is not extinct).
- ARIDLYIn an arid manner.
- ASTIRIn motion; characterized by motion.
- ATELICPresenting an action or event’s significance as being the process or experience instead of the end accomplishment or goal.
- ATOKOUSProducing only asexual individuals.
- AVOWEDLYWith open acknowledgment, declaration or verification.