┊ that I encountered while reading ┊

• Titivillus
  • demon of scribes’ manuscript mistakes & high-profile printing errors (e.g. “Thou shalt commit adultery.”)
• sistrum
  • a musical instrument of ancient Egypt consisting of a metal frame with transverse metal rods which rattled when the instrument was shaken
• apotropaic
  • supposedly having the power to avert evil influences or bad luck
• skirling
  • to emit the high shrill tone of a bagpipe
• hamartia
  • a fatal flaw or crucial error that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine
• clepsydra
  • an ancient time-measuring device worked by a flow of water
• gramarye
  • an archaic word for magic, occult learning, or necromancy, and is a variant of "grammar"
• skipper's-daughters
  • high waves when they break at sea with a white crest
• afreet
  • (in Arabian and Muslim mythology) a powerful jinn or demon
• Megabyzoi
  • eunuch priests of the Temple of Artemis
• brockle-faced
  • (of an animal) having blotches of colored hair on an otherwise white face
• minatory
  • expressing or conveying a threat
• swivet
  • a fluster or panic
• animalier
  • an artist, mainly from the 19th century, who specializes in, or is known for, skill in the realistic portrayal of animals
• luminiferous
  • producing or transmitting light
• qualia
  • instances of subjective, conscious experience
• selcouth
  • an archaic word meaning strange, unusual, rare, or unfamiliar
• syzygy
  • a conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun
• riparian
  • relating to wetlands adjacent to rivers and streams
• estivation
  • the arrangement of petals and sepals in a flower bud before it opens
• chouse
  • to cheat, trick
• almirah
  • a freestanding closet or wardrobe
• grogram
  • a coarse fabric made of silk, often combined with mohair or wool and stiffened with gum
• sculpin
  • a chiefly marine fish of the northern hemisphere, with a broad flattened head and spiny scales and fins
• logy
  • dull and heavy in motion or thought; sluggish
• unisonant
  • of a single sound; producing the same sound
• dithyrhambus
  • a wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing
• aggrupation
  • an association or organization linked by a common interest or trade
• carcanet
  • an archaic term for a jeweled collar or necklace
• guéridon
  • a small usually ornately carved and embellished stand or table
• sidereal
  • of or with respect to the distant stars (i.e. the constellations or fixed stars, not the sun or planets)
• rhodomontade
  • vain and empty boasting, bluster, or bragging
• cachinnation
  • loud, convulsive, and immoderate laughter
• ultramontane
  • situated on the other side of the Alps from the point of view of the speaker
• opuscule
  • a small or minor literary or musical work
• epanalepsis
  • a repetition of a word or a phrase with intervening words setting off the repetition, sometimes occurring with a phrase used both at the beginning and end of a sentence
• synathrismus
  • a rhetorical piling up of terms, especially adjectives, often as invective
• sternutatory
  • inducing sneezing