| A | B |
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| wags | jokers |
| daguerreotype | an early photograph produced on a silver or a silver-covered copper plate |
| opine | to express an opinion |
| mead | a fermented beverage made of water and honey, malt and yeast |
| impervious | not capable of being damaged or harmed |
| wimple | feathers |
| haversack | a bag similar to a knapsack but worn over one shoulder |
| runes | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| clabber | sour milk that has thickened or curdled |
| moiled | wet or dirty |
| canted | lively;lusty |
| saleratus | a leaveling agent consisting of potassium or sodium bicarbonate |
| sodden | heavy with or as if with moisture of water |
| cotter | a wedge-shaped or tapered piece used to fasten together parts of a structure |
| cess | luck |
| calotype | a photographic process by which a large number of prints could be produced from a paper negative |
| wainwright | a marker and repairer of wagons |
| roiling | Turbulent |
| scarp | a line of cliffs produced by faulting or erosion |
| cant | Angle; slope |
| pullet | a young hen |
| pomatum | pomade |
| jaunty | sprightly in manner or appearance |
| bantling | a very young child |
| swill | something suggestive of slop or garbage |
| sullage | Refuse; sewage |
| sump | Cesspool |
| bedlamite | Madman; lunatic |
| snath | the handle of a scythe |
| millrace | canal in which water flows to and from a mill wheel |
| duff | the partly decayed organic matter on the forest floor |
| martin | a small Eurasian swallow with a forked tail, bluish black and back, and white rump and underparts |
| pied | of two or more colors in blothes |
| shoat | a young hog usually less than one year old |
| mast | nuts (as acorns) accumulated on the forest floor and often serving as food for animals (as hogs) |
| ruching | A gathered strip of fabric used for trimming |
| scofflaw | an contemptuous law violater |
| sot | a habitual drunkard |
| caul | a membrane |
| hinny | a hybrid between a stallion and a female donkey |
| harquebus | a matchlock gun invented in the 15th century which was portable but heavy and was usually fired from a support |
| scribe | to make by cutting or scratching |
| swale | a low-lting or depressed and often wet stretch of land |
| swath | A long broad strip |
| bore | the long usually cylindrical hollow part of something (as a tube or gun barrel) |
| sconce | A bracket candlestick |
| spavins | Swelling; a bony enlargement of the hock of the horse associated with strain |
| bots | the larva of a botfly; especially: one infesting the horse |
| gigs | the pronged spear for catching fish |
| harrow | a cultivating implement set with spikes, spring teeth, or disks and used primarily for pulverizing and smoothing the soil |
| tines | a slender pointed projecting part |
| capons | a castrated male chicken |
| sorghum | syrup from the juice of the sorgo that resembles cane syrup |
| mendicant | a member of a relgious order (as the Fransicans) combining monastic life and outside religious activity and originally owning neither personal nor community property |
| weir | a fence or enclosure set in a waterway for taking fish |
| mackintosh | a lightweight waterproof fabric originally of rubberized cotton |
| windrows | a row of hay racked up to dry before being baled or stored |
| cupolaed | a rounding vault resting on a usually circuled base and forming a roof or a ceiling |
| conscription | compulsory enrollement of persons especially for military service |
| maudlin | drunk enogh to be emotionally silly |
| grabby | having the power to grab the attention |
| outliers | a person whose residence and place of business are at distance |
| accoutered | to provide with equipment or furnishings |
| panniers | a basket often carried on the back of an animal or the shoulders of a person |
| picket | a pointed or sharpened stake, post, or pale |
| claret | a red Bordeaux wine |
| sisal | a strong durable white used especially for hard fiber cordage and twine |
| scurf | thin dry scales detached form the epidermus especially in an abnormal skin condition |
| jocular | habitually jolly |
| treed | to drive to or up a tree |
| pales | one of the stakes of a palicide |
| hoard | a supply of fund stored up and often hidden away |
| warren | a place legally authorized for keeping small game |
| stoups | a beverage container |
| prothalamion | a song in celebration of a marrige |
| spoor | a track, a trail, a scent, or droppings especially from a wild animal |
| withers | to become dry and sapless |
| scud | Ocean or river foam |
| clodpated | determined; hard-headed |
| fleam | a surgical instrument for letting blood |
| mackintosh | a lightweight waterproof fabric |
| furled | rolled up |
| mackled | spotted |
| malandered | affected with dry scabby eruptions |
| erratum | an error in writing |
| homunculus | a human figure made of clay |
| galax | an evergreen plant |
| frabble | confused wranglings |
| prised | raised or moved by force of leverage |
| augury | an omen |
| hasp | a fastener |
| millinery | women's apparel for the head |
| umber | a moderate to dark yellowish brown |
| plaits | a braid of material |
| glossing | give a deceptively attractive appearance to |
| Tartarean | pertaining to hell or to purgatory |
| menhirs | a structure of prehistoric age made of large flat unhewn stone |
| suet | the hard fat about the kidneys and loins in beef |
| blithen | to make glad |
| mergansers | fish eating ducks of great diving powers |
| wizened | dried up; withered; shriveled up |
| clabber | sour milk that has thickened or curdled |
| tract | a book or written work |
| comportment | personal bearing; behaviour |
| sorghum | syrup from the juice of a sorgo |
| parse | to examine in a minute way |
| withy | a flexible sleder twig or branch |
| pert | saucily free and forward |
| sizz | to give out a hissing sound |
| knell | to ring especially for a death or funeral |
| Phrygian | a native or inhabitant of ancient Phrygia |
| stob | a stake; a post |
| bipedal | two-footed |
| haversack | a bag similar to a knapsack but worn over one shoulder |
| gambrel | a stick or iron for suspending slaughtered animals |
| sideling | directed or moving sideways |
| specter | a visible disembodied spirit |
| pomace | something crushed to a pulpy mass |
| mien | air or bearing especially as expressive of attitude or personality |
| dingy | dirty |
| gabble | to talk fast or foolishly |
| limned | to draw or paint on a surface |
| usquebaugh | whiskey |
| rime | an accumulation of ice tufts |
| bivouac | a temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| squama | a structure resembling a scale |
| imbrications | an overlapping of edges |
| glaucous | of a pale yellow-green color |
| sphagnum | a mossy plant growing in swampy regions |
| cairn | a heap of stones piled up as a memorial or landmark |
| scarp | the steep face of a hill |
| cullions | a mean or base fellow |
| panniers | a basket often carried on the back of an animal or the shoulders of a person |
| dolmen | a prehistoric monument of two or more upright stones; similar to menhirs |
| mullein | herbaceous plant |
