Word origins

• gantryA framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
• princelyRelating to a prince.
• clepTo chatter, gossip, tell tales.
• slitherTo move about smoothly and from side to side.
• jugglerA person who practices juggling (trick of throwing and catching balls or similar).
• prepositionAny of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
• SpiveyA surname from Middle English.
• rachA dog that hunts by scent.
• lionessA female lion (animal).
• shooTo induce someone or something to leave.
• sucklingAn infant that is still being breastfed (being suckled) by its mother.
• scytheAn instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.
• heavingCrowded with people.
• homilyA sermon, especially concerning a practical matter.
• pensiveEngaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.
• boisterousFull of energy; exuberant; noisy.
• sateTo satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
• HolyroodAn area of Edinburgh, Scotland, the home of the Scottish Parliament.
• fermentTo react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
• yarTo snarl; to gnar.
• gougeA chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
• chirpA short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.
• yoreA time long past.
• halveTo reduce to half the original amount.
• tallowA hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.
• rowerOne who rows.
• unkindLacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.
• misreadTo read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.
• paucityFewness in number; too few.
• FrisianA member of the Germanic ethnic group which is native to the region of Frisia (which is in the Netherlands, northern Germany, and southern Denmark).
• DevereuxA surname from Anglo-Norman.
• philologyThe humanistic study of texts and their languages, especially ancient or classical languages.
• slouchA hanging down of the head; a drooping posture; a limp appearance.
• okeMan; guy; bloke.
• amicableShowing friendliness or goodwill.
• colloquyA conversation or dialogue.
• fiftiethThe ordinal form of the number fifty.
• joyfullyIn a joyful manner; joyously.
• collegialOf, relating to, or ruled by colleagues.
• snideDisparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
• baronySynonym of hundred, an English administrative division originally reckoned as comprising 100 hides and in various numbers composing counties.
• buxomHaving a full, voluptuous figure, especially possessing large breasts.
• mustyAffected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy.
• curableCapable of being cured.
• strangleTo kill someone by squeezing the throat so as to cut off the oxygen supply.
• swerveTo stray; to wander; to rove.
• lectorA lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
• brisketThe chest of an animal.
• SpaniardA person from Spain or of Spanish descent.
• plummetA piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water; a plumb bob or a plumb line.
• plantainAny plant of the genus Plantago, with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm (4") long with a narrow part instead of a petiole, and with a spike inflorescence with the flower spacing varying widely among the species. See also psyllium.
• frailtyThe condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived.
• lightheartedJoyful, glad, taking pleasure in being alive; not depressed or sad.
• hakeA hook; a pot-hook.
• mortallyFatally; in such a way as to cause death.
• kneadTo work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
• wilfulIntentional; deliberate.
• gaolDated spelling of jail.
• tarnA small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
• attentivelyIn an attentive manner.
• rebutTo drive back or beat back; to repulse.
• dishwashingThe act of cleaning the dishware.
• rotherA horned animal, especially an ox.
• conspireTo secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results; to collude, to connive, to plot.
• recompenseAn equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
• oliphantAn elephant.
• stutterTo speak (words) with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.
• ingotA solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
• beadleA parish constable, a uniformed minor (lay) official, who ushers and keeps order.
• cockneyFrom the East End of London, or London generally.
• shapelyHaving a pleasing shape, pleasant to look at.
• gleanTo collect (fruit, grain, or other produce) from a field, an orchard, etc., after the main gathering or harvest.
• icicleA drooping, tapering shape of ice.
• participleA form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.
• FeatherstoneA village and civil parish in south-west Northumberland, England.
• immeasurableimpossible to measure
• construeA translation.
• awlA pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
• AnjouA type of green-skinned pear.
• BeswickA village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref TA012481).
• thicklyIn a thick manner.
• cisternA reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
• tareA vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa).
• caliphThe holder of a monarchical title based on a claim to be a successor of Muhammad.
• dysenteryA disease characterised by inflammation of the intestines, especially the colon (large intestine), accompanied by pus (white blood cells) in the feces, fever, pain in the abdomen, high-volume diarrhea, and possible blood in the feces.
• GoldwynA characteristical surname.
• philosophicSynonym of philosophical.
• rudenessThe property of being rude.
• snitchTo inform on someone, especially in betrayal of others.
• flayTo cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
• patterA soft repeated sound, as of rain falling, or feet walking on a hard surface.
• croneAn old woman.
• outflightThe act or process of flying out.
• wickedlyIn a wicked manner.
• fessTo confess; to admit.
• laverA red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
• elongateElongated, extended, lengthened; (especially biology) having a long and slender form.
• landlessNot owning land.
• magnificentlyIn a magnificent manner.
• bereftPained by the loss of someone.