Word origins

• avoirdupoisThe official system of weights used in the UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary system in London since 1300.
• rhetoricianAn expert or student of rhetoric.
• yeanTo give birth to.
• gonfalonA standard or ensign, consisting of a pole with a crosspiece from which a banner is suspended, especially as used in church processions, but also for civic and military display.
• onlayTo lay or place something on a surface.
• gyrateTo revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado.
• posternA back door or gate, side entrance, or other entrance distinct from the main one, especially one that is private or not obvious.
• JennettA surname originating as a patronymic.
• needinessThe characteristic of being needy.
• lathingInvitation.
• leonineOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion; lionlike.
• erightTo invest with a right.
• frowardDisobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.
• lavantA shallow or more or less intermittent spring, or the stream of water (bourne) which feeds and springs forth from such a spring.
• bodgeTo do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
• laugherOne who laughs.
• prateTalk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
• whithersoeverTo what place soever; wherever.
• foundressA female founder (“one who founds or establishes”).
• quiltmakerA maker of quilts.
• needlerOne who needles (someone else).
• goatherdA person who herds, tends goats.
• porringerA small cup or bowl, usually with a handle, commonly used for porridge.
• eurusThe east wind.
• widenessThe state or quality of being wide.
• habitudeThe essential character of one's being or existence; native or normal constitution; mental or moral constitution; bodily condition; native temperament.
• imbibitionThe act of imbibing.
• coomsoot, smut
• skulkA group of foxes.
• whoredomThe state of being a whore, prostitution; sexual indulgence, fornication.
• sossAnything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle.
• benisonA blessing; benediction.
• suasionThe act of urging or influencing; persuasion.
• impenitentNot penitent; specifically (Christianity), not repenting of one's sins; unrepentant.
• turmA group of people, especially a military unit of cavalrymen.
• brailA small rope used to truss up sails.
• engrossTo write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
• tumbTo tumble; jump; dance.
• intoneTo give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize.
• maliciousnessThe condition of being malicious; malevolence or malice.
• battelA single combat.
• letchStrong desire; passion.
• parureA set of jewellery to be worn together.
• surenessThe property of being sure, certainty.
• worldwiseKnowledgeable about the world; worldly-wise; sophisticated; experienced.
• meddlerOne who meddles or interferes in something not of their concern.
• hextHighest.
• harrasA herd of horses.
• aristA rising, as from a seat, a bed, or the ground, or from below the horizon.
• ScafellA mountain in Cumbria, England.
• procuracyThe office of a procurator.
• merminA mermaid or merman.
• ateneTo irritate; grill; vex; annoy.
• yawpTo yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise.
• quaverA trembling shake.
• sliveTo cut; split; separate.
• emendationThe act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
• espousalA betrothal.
• presterA priest or presbyter.
• struttersomeone who struts
• purgationThe process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative.
• toseTo pull apart or asunder; touse.
• winepressA press used to extract juice from grapes as the first step of winemaking.
• forepartThe front or anterior part of something.
• congealTo change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.
• tidilyIn a tidy manner; neatly; cleanly.
• scryTo magically or supernaturally look into or (as an entertainer) predict (the future), using crystal balls or other objects.
• ChurchdownA large village and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8820).
• solemnizeTo make solemn, or official, through ceremony or legal act.
• thringTo thrust; crowd; press; squeeze.
• importunityConstant and insistent demanding or proposing, especially if regarded as annoying or upsetting; also, the character of such behaviour; (countable) an instance of this.
• moilTo toil, to work hard.
• steadingA farmhouse and outer buildings such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate.
• bewitchTo cast a spell upon.
• rottennessThe quality of being rotten.
• privilySecretly, in secret; in a private manner; privately.
• dunnockA small European and Asian passerine bird, Prunella modularis; the hedge sparrow or hedge warbler.
• ignominiouslyIn a manner which is ignominious (“especially of a person: deserving of disgrace or dishonour; contemptible, despicable; (generally) causing or marked by disgrace or dishonour; disgraceful, dishonourable; also (loosely), humiliating, shameful”).
• appertainTo belong to or be a part of, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate to.
• headlyChief; principal; capital; (of sins) deadly.
• foresideThe front or fore part of anything; front face of a thing; front side.
• widgeA horse.
• spendableCapable of being spent.
• viscountessThe wife of a viscount.
• quicklimeCalcium oxide, which is produced by heating (calcining) limestone and gives slaked lime on treatment with water.
• forthrightnessThe characteristic or quality of being forthright
• borstalA way up a hill in the South Downs.
• pomaceSuch residue from apples used in the process of cidermaking; also, a mass of crushed apples before the juice is pressed out.
• twelvemonthA year.
• DarlastonA town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9897).
• glaiveA light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head.
• uncrownedNot crowned; not yet crowned.
• malefactorA criminal or felon.
• dotageDecline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.
• palliateTo relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.
• froodShrewd; sagacious; wary; cautious.
• hydrophobiaAn aversion to water, as a symptom of rabies; the disease of rabies itself.
• empriseAn enterprise or endeavor, especially a quest or adventure.
• vocativeOf or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
• plodderA person who, or animal that, plods.