Word origins

• coagulateTo become congealed; to convert from a liquid to a semisolid mass.
• lamingThe act or process of rendering lame.
• noontideMidday, noon.
• kneelerA person who kneels.
• cuirassA piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.
• unsearchableThat cannot be searched or investigated into; inscrutable, unknowable.
• overweeningUnduly confident; (sometimes also) arrogant.
• preteriteShowing an action at a determined moment in the past.
• poultA young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.).
• flibbertigibbetAn offbeat, skittish person; especially said of a young woman.
• hisselfHimself.
• outstandTo resist effectually; withstand; sustain without yielding.
• hangnailA loose, narrow strip of nail tissue protruding from the side edge and anchored near the base of a fingernail or toenail.
• thwaiteA piece of forest land cleared for agriculture or habitation; a clearing.
• malignityThe quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
• ChittickA surname.
• hallooUsed to greet someone, or to catch their attention.
• bawdOne who keeps a brothel, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer or madam.
• adjudgeTo declare to be.
• mirthfulFilled with mirth.
• limmerA rogue; a low, base fellow.
• pilferTo steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.
• gracelessWithout grace.
• toomEmpty; bare.
• GeffreyA male given name from the Germanic languages, a medieval spelling of Geoffrey, rarely used today.
• betimesIn good season or time; early, especially in the morning; seasonably.
• spikenardA perfumed ointment, extracted from the plant Nardostachys jatamansi that belongs to the Valerian family and grows in the Himalayas.
• speanA teat or nipple of a cow.
• procurerA person who procures or obtains things
• bewailTo wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for.
• twitterThe sound of a succession of chirps as uttered by birds.
• nuzzleTo push or thrust (the nose or snout, face or muzzle, or head, or an object) against or into something.
• benignlyIn a benign manner.
• StrangewaysA surname transferred from the place name.
• certesCertainly, indeed.
• baptistryA designated space within a church, or a separate room or building associated with a church, where a baptismal font is located, and consequently, where the sacrament of Christian baptism (via aspersion or affusion) is performed.
• overlieTo lie over or upon
• japeA joke or quip.
• smolderTo burn slowly, giving off smoke but with little to no flame.
• guesserA person who guesses; especially someone who can make a reasonable prediction from little evidence.
• leathernMade of leather.
• mootingThe activity of taking part in a moot court.
• garfishAny fish of the needlefish family Belonidae, with a long narrow body and needle-shaped jaws, especially the European species Belone belone.
• craftilyIn a crafty manner; slyly.
• swebTo swoon; faint.
• inhabitableFit to live in; habitable.
• lawbookA book in which laws are codified.
• queeningAny of several kinds of apple.
• bounReady, prepared.
• hosierOne who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.
• gurnardAny of various marine fish of the family Triglidae that have a large armored head and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom.
• meanlyHumbly, of or from low social status; basely.
• couterA piece of armor which covers the elbow.
• blasphemingAn act of blasphemy.
• hostlerA worker employed at an inn, hostelry, or stable to look after horses.
• blatchBlacking, blackening.
• cumberTo slow down; to hinder; to burden; to encumber.
• overgreatExcessively great.
• WaterworthA surname from Middle English.
• bibbleTo eat and/or drink noisily.
• expedienceThe quality of being fit or suitable to cause some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case.
• unwroughtIn the native state, before being worked on; especially used of bars of bullion and other metal
• garbleTo pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose not intended by the original author; to mutilate; to pervert.
• lourTo frown; to look sullen.
• SouthminsterA village and civil parish in Maldon district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ9699).
• misdeedThat which was done that should not have been, ranging from any sin or moral offense to various degrees of crime.
• NeadA surname from Middle English.
• hobdayto operate on the larynx of a horse in order to improve its breathing
• lamentablyRegrettably; in a manner deserving or inspiring lamentation.
• WinscombeA village in Winscombe and Sandford parish, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4257).
• indispositionA mild illness, the state of being indisposed.
• nutrimentA source of nourishment; food.
• unkindnessThe state or quality of being unkind.
• gaperOne who gapes; a starer.
• haunterOne who haunts.
• abaseTo lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
• soldanThe ruler of a major Muslim state in the Middle Ages, especially the Sultan of Egypt.
• limbusA border of an anatomical part, such as the edge of the cornea.
• quiddityThe essence or inherent nature of a person or thing.
• burbleA bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek.
• forbearingforbearance; restraint
• ScuttA surname from Middle English.
• forestallingThe act of one who forestalls.
• limnTo draw or paint; to delineate.
• cucurbitAny member of the family Cucurbitaceae of gourds.
• milkerAn animal, such as a dairy cow, kept for the milk it produces.
• nowise(In) no way, (in) no manner; not at all.
• complineThe last of the canonical hours, sung just before retiring to bed.
• rondelA metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
• unchristianNot of the Christian faith.
• earthinessThe state of being earthy
• WhewellA surname.
• upriseTo rise; to get up.
• ImpingtonA village in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4463).
• DibbA short river in North Yorkshire, England, which joins the River Wharfe.
• glowwormThe larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families Phengodidae or Lampyridae that gives out a green light from its abdomen.
• inspiritTo strengthen or hearten; give impetus or vigour.
• NeptunusSynonym of Neptune (“the Roman god of earthquakes and the ocean”).
• confabulationA casual conversation; a chat.
• rochetA white vestment, worn by a bishop, similar to a surplice but with narrower sleeves, extending either to below the knee (in the Catholic church) or to the hem of the cassock in the Anglican church.