1. heteroplasty — grafting of material from one individual onto another
The result of Dr. Willoughby’s bizarre heteroplasty was a pouch in Mr. Branchforth’s abdomen made from a sow’s ear, which, interestingly enough, he did at times use as a small coin purse.
2. sizar — undergraduate at Cambridge or Trinity College who received an allowance to help fund his education, and who performed certain menial tasks for the other students
You can easily recognize the sizars in your classes by their haggard and hungry look.
3. neatherd — cowherd
Of course we are all familiar with the story of King Alfred in the neatherd‘s cottage.
4. cenacle — room in which the Last Supper was held; upper chamber, room for dining or supping; group of people, clique
None were permitted into our cenacle until they had had published a letter to the editor of The Times decrying the collapse of morals.
5. pulvil (also pulvilio or pulvillio) — perfumed powder for wigs or the body
No matter how many hogsheads of pulvil he buried himself under, he could never entirely hide the reek of his foul tobacco.
6. dressing bell — bell rung as signal to begin dressing for dinner
They each found the other’s idea so fascinating that they continued to argue after tea right into the evening, ignoring the dressing bell and finally having to be dragged by Lady Day to dinner still in their sporting clothes.
7. fatuity — folly; idiocy
And in a gentleman of his many years such love play can only be the grossest fatuity, for what may be allowed if not condoned in a youngster is sheer madness in the aged.
8. Saturnian — of or relating to the god Saturn, esp. referring to the ‘golden age’ of his rule; of or relating to the planet named after the same god
While he dreamed of a recrudescence of the Saturnian age, his compatriot was working to ensure the defeat of the wheat laws.
9. saturnic — suffering from lead poisoning
Every movement became a torture as saturnic pain wracked her joints.
10. mullion — vertical bar dividing lights in a window or similar panels
The massive stone mullions in the great windows are gone now, cannibalized for stones to make more secure the huts of the nearby peasants.