Word origins

• provenderFood, especially for livestock.
• ungraciousNot gracious; unkind or cold-hearted.
• bekenTo make known; reveal.
• aggerA double tide, particularly a high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again (or only the second of these high waters), but sometimes equally a low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again
• raggyRaglike; like a rag.
• vespertineOf or related to the evening; that occurs in the evening.
• leannessThe property of being lean, without excess or fat.
• haviourDemeanour, behaviour, comportment.
• prepuceThe foreskin, or retractable fold of tissue covering the glans penis.
• evildoerA person who performs evil acts.
• midafternoonThe middle of the afternoon, normally between 2 and 4 pm.
• sikeA gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer; the marshy ground or ditch through which such a stream flows.
• seasonablyIn due season; at an opportune or fitting time.
• ruffeGymnocephalus cernua, a small Eurasian freshwater fish.
• sailmakerOne whose occupation is to make or repair sails.
• commendablyIn a commendable manner.
• berrierOne who picks or forages for berries.
• sardonyxA gemstone having bands of red sard; a variety of onyx or chalcedony.
• mizzyA bog or quagmire.
• assayerOne who assays, or performs chemical tests on metals.
• findableAble to be found.
• carefulnessThe state of being careful.
• vaporousOf or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.
• sournessThe condition or quality of being sour.
• stickleA sharp point; prickle; a spine
• orisonA prayer.
• wangerA rest or cushion for the cheek; a pillow.
• ekingThe act or process of adding.
• unhallowedNot hallowed or blessed; unholy.
• responsoryA chant or anthem recited after a reading in a church service; a respond.
• ficklenessThe quality of being fickle.
• bloreTo cry; cry out; weep.
• impulsionThe act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the impelling force, or impulse.
• pinfoldAn open enclosure for animals, especially an area where stray animals were rounded up if their owners failed to properly supervise their use of common grazing land.
• detractorA person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
• wickeA surname from German.
• reanA deep furrow used for drainage.
• homewardsLeading toward home.
• ambrosianAmbrosial.
• slatterTo be awkward, careless, or negligent, especially with regard to dress and neatness.
• nowayIn no manner or degree; not at all; nowise; no way.
• rapineThe seizure of someone's property by force; pillage; plunder.
• wittinglyin a witting manner, intentionally, on purpose.
• abnegationA denial; a renunciation; denial of desire or self-interest.
• lecherA lecherous person: someone given to excessive sexual activity or debauchery.
• betakeTo take over to; take across (to); deliver.
• quaestorAn ancient Roman official responsible for public revenue and other financial affairs.
• outspreadTo spread out; expand; extend.
• mindfullyIn a mindful manner.
• elecampaneA tall Eurasian herb, Inula helenium, whose roots have been used medicinally.
• forlongTo fill with longing.
• wharfageA dock, quay, or pier.
• whirrTo move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound.
• alarumA danger signal or warning.
• vinousPertaining to or having the characteristics of wine.
• hentTo take hold of, to grasp.
• jambeA leg, of an animal or person.
• unmercifulnot showing mercy
• amayto dismay; confound; be dismayed
• pottleA former unit of volume, equivalent to half a gallon, used for liquids and corn; a pot or drinking vessel of around this size.
• dorterA bedroom or dormitory, especially in a monastery.
• supplicateTo make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
• sophisticalPertaining to a sophist or sophistry.
• AconburyA village in Herefordshire, England.
• appurtenanceThat which appertains to something else; a belonging, accompaniment, adjunct, appendage, attribute, or accessory ; an addition.
• forewarnTo warn in advance.
• couchingThe act of one who couches.
• LiddelA habitational surname.
• forholdTo detain, hold back, or hold up (someone or something); also, to retain or withhold (something).
• coppeA spider.
• affrightGreat fear, terror, fright.
• VowchurchA village and civil parish (served by Vowchurch (and District) Group Parish Council) in south-west Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3636).
• burgeonA bud, sprout, or shoot.
• abradeTo rub or wear off; erode.
• upholsterTo fit padding, stuffing, springs, webbing and fabric covering to (furniture).
• beathTo bathe (with warm liquid); foment.
• warthA ford.
• grampusA killer whale (Orcinus orca).
• togeA toga.
• besmirchTo make dirty.
• quernstoneEither of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand.
• castellanA feudal lord with a fortified manor.
• skedaddleTo move or run away quickly.
• thigTo solicit or receive, usually by begging; ask as alms.
• leprousOf or relating to one of the diseases known as leprosy.
• twayTwo.
• blancmangeA simple dessert made by cooking sweetened milk with cornstarch and vanilla.
• libidinousHaving lustful desires; characterized by lewdness.
• noisomeMorally hurtful or noxious.
• intoxicateTo stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
• curtseyA small bow, generally performed by a woman or a girl, where she crosses the shin of one leg behind the calf of her other leg and briefly bends her knees to lower her body in deference.
• renayTo renounce (one’s faith or god), to apostasize from.
• GrossetesteA surname from Middle English.
• despoilTo plunder; to pillage; take spoil from.
• vaingloriousPossessing excessive vanity or unwarranted pride.
• embezzleTo steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works.
• cleyA claw.
• archbishopricThe rank or office of an archbishop.
• mayoressA female mayor.
• KilhamA village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA0664).