1. rennet — membrane from the fourth stomach of an unweaned calf, used for curdling milk in the making of cheese
Cream cheese can be made easily at home, since, like many soft cheeses, an acid such as lemon juice is used for curdling the milk rather than rennet.
2. invultuation — creation of an image, esp. a waxen effigy for purposes of witchcraft
The practitioner must ensure she is not disturbed during the invultuation ritual, as a poorly made figure may cause subsequent spells to rebound upon the caster.
3. epizootic — disease which propagates quickly among animals
Though the epizootic has not wreaked the havoc among human populations it did in centuries gone by, the bubonic plague still holds rodent populations of the American Southwest in its grip.
4. lampyrine — of or about fire-flies
The sinister pines loomed over the tiny clearing, hiding any illumination save for a lampyrine twinkling in the distance, near the bend in the needle-covered track.
5. gazump — to cheat by paying more than the final auction price to the dealer, thus taking the item from the rightful buyer
I bid more than I would at a storage facility in my hometown, to keep the locals from gazumping me.
6. swart — swarthy; dark in color
The panting swart figure on the shore waded into the surf to draw the near lifeless body out of the sea.
7. acequia — irrigation ditch
The unwary bicyclist was jarred out of her reverie as the dirt track crossed the remains of a defunct acequia that once had served the now fallow fields.
8. moraceous — of or about mulberry plants
Ovid tells how Pyramis and Thisbe died beneath a mulberry tree, their blood forever staining the moraceous fruit a dark red.
9. callow — immature or unworldly
Face to face I was struck by his callow understanding of social graces, the result (as I supposed) of learning about the world through various electronic screens.
10. dropsy — old-fashioned word for edema, the often painful swelling of interstitial spaces in the body with fluid
The man Jesus healed on the Sabbath in front of the silent Pharisees suffered from dropsy.