- accoy: v. To subdue; to tame; to daunt.
- alamort: adv. to the death; mortally. (In a half-dead or moribund condition; depressed; melancholy.)
- antelucan: adj. Held or being before light; -- a word applied to assemblies of Christians, in ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning.
- argot: n. A specialized vocabulary or set of idioms used by a particular group: thieves' argot.
- atelier: n. A workshop or studio, especially for an artist or designer.
- augury: n. The art, ability, or practice of auguring; divination.
- caddle: n. A dispute; contention; confusion; noise.
- caesura: n. A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics.
- caitiff: n. A despicable coward; a wretch.
- calid: adj. Hot; burning; ardent.
- catena: n. A closely linked series, especially of excerpted writings or commentaries.
- catenate: transitive v. To connect in a series of ties or links; form into a chain.
- cathexis: n. Concentration of emotional energy on an object or idea.
- certes: adv. indeed; certainly.
- chancel: n. The space around the altar of a church for the clergy and sometimes the choir, often enclosed by a lattice or railing.
- chirality: n. The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, in which objects are mirror images of each other, but are not identical.
- cotehardie: n. A 14th to 16th-century unisex garment tailored to fit the torso and arms, usually with a row of buttons down the front as well as down each fitted sleeve from the elbow to the wrist. Women's coathardies trailed on the floor, but those for men could be cut very short.
- curiosa: n.pl. Books or other writings dealing with unusual, especially pornographic, topics.
- descry: transitive v. To discover by careful observation or scrutiny; detect: descried a message of hope in her words.
- dolor: n. pain, grief.
- eidolon: n. A phantom; an apparition; an ideal form.
- eldritch: adj. Strange or unearthly; eerie.
- elision: n. Omission of a final or initial sound in pronunciation.
- evanid: adj. Liable to vanish; faint; weak; evanescent.
- featly: adv. Skilfully.
- feuillemort: adj. Having the color of a faded, dying leaf.
- gadabout: n. One who roams or roves about, as in search of amusement or social activity.
- gainsay: transitive v. To oppose, especially by contradiction.
- harridan: n. A woman regarded as scolding and vicious.
- heartquake: n. Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear.
- hirsel: n. A multitude; a throng: applied to living creatures of any kind.
- jalousie: n. A blind or shutter having adjustable horizontal slats for regulating the passage of air and light.
- jocose: adj. Given to joking; merry.
- l'esprit de l'escalier: n. The feeling one gets after leaving a conversation, when one thinks of the things one should have said; afterwit.
- luciferous: adj. Literally or figuratively illuminating; providing light.
- lusk: n. a lazy or slothful person; v. to be idle.
- luxate: transitive v. To put out of joint; dislocate.
- malpais: n. akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks
- mangata: n. The road-like reflection of the moon in the water.
- milieu: n. An environment or setting.
- moonbow: n. A meteorological phenomenon also known as a lunar rainbow or white rainbow.
- mulierose: adj. Fond of women.
- needfire: n. A fire produced by the friction of one piece of wood upon another, or of a rope upon a stake of wood.
- nesh: adj. Delicate; weak; soft; tender; poor-spirited; susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc.
- nitid: adj. Bright; lustrous; shining.
- piratical: adj. of, pertaining to, or similar to pirates.
- rampike: n. A standing dead tree or tree stump, especially one killed by fire.
- rhyton: n. A hornlike drinking vessel of ancient times, often having a pointed end shaped like an animal or animal's head.
- rudas: n. A foul-mouthed old woman; a randy; a beldam; a hag.
- sapient: adj. Having great wisdom and discernment.
- serein: n. Light rainfall from a cloudless sky after sunset.
- serried: adj. Pressed or crowded together, especially in rows: troops in serried ranks.
- soothfast: adj. truthful, faithful; honest, veracious; based on the truth.
- spindrift: n. Windblown sea spray. Also called spoondrift.
- supine: adj. Lying on the back or having the face upward ; Marked by or showing lethargy, passivity, or blameworthy indifference.
- suspire: intransitive v. To breathe or sigh: "And from that one intake of fire/All creatures still warmly suspire” ( Robert Frost).
- talion: n. The law of retaliation, according to which the punishment inflicted corresponds in kind and degree to the injury, as an eye for an eye, or a tooth for a tooth. This mode of punishment was established by the Mosaic law (Lev. xxiv. 20).
- terete: adj. Cylindrical but usually slightly tapering at both ends, circular in cross section, and smooth-surfaced.
- timorous: adj. Full of apprehensiveness; timid.
- vaunt: transitive v. To speak boastfully of; brag about.
- velleity: n. Volition at its lowest level; a mere wish or inclination.
- whilom: adj. Having once been; former: the whilom editor in chief.
- withy: adj. Wiry and agile.
- wyrd: n. Fate, destiny, particular in an Anglo-Saxon or Norse context.
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