1. chiliad — group of 1,000; 1,000 year period
Can Christianity survive its third chiliad?
2. Barmecidal — illusory, offering imaginary sustenance (fr. Arabian Nights story)
When we received the news, we had no champagne and no way to get any (this was back when the Blue Laws were still in effect and you’ll remember we found out on a Sunday), so we shared a Barmecidal toast from our imaginary flutes and wished the future Princeton man well.
3. divagate — to wander or stray from place to place, or subject to subject
I would never have divagated so far from the appeal for the Marian Missions had you not expressed such interest in my snake tattoo.
4. equipage — carriage
From his apartments I could see the equipages moving down Pall Mall, a wonderful world from which I now was excluded.
5. scrim — thin fabric used in lining upholstery and in theater for backdrops, etc.
Still dripping from the shower, he pulled aside the scrim curtain and peered outside trying to see the source of the unusual noise.
6. frog — belt attachment for carrying sword, bayonet, hatchet, or machete
He came flying towards us, his bayonet frog bouncing against his thigh as his legs pumped furiously.
7. howsomever — to whatever extent, in whatever manner; nonetheless, notwithstanding
That dog kept rooting around the flower bed; howsomever, we bathed her each and every time she got filthy, wanting her to be all pretty when you arrived.
8. gork — braindead (or nearly) patient kept alive only by artificial means
He hated this part of the job, harvesting spinal fluid from the gorks in the prison cellar.
9. laver — basin for washing, as of hands; baptismal font
He performed his morning ablutions, rinsing his hands and face with water from the laver, cold though it was.
10. windrow — row of hay or other such product laid out for drying
The baler attachment can make bales directly from the windrow, though of course sufficient time should be allowed to ensure thorough curing of the hay.