1. skew-whiff — askew, obliquely
And just as we had gotten Mrs. Heriot back up on her feet, here came Jon the cooper charging down the hillside riding skew-whiff on his dappled gray mare.
2. antimasque — grotesque dance preceding or appearing between acts of a masque
And finally the rude players of the second antimasque scurried away off stage, leaving a calm scene of bucolic peace into which the two court ladies appearing as Prudence and Remembrance made their stately way.
3. chiffonier — short sideboard enclosed by doors, sometimes with shelves at top; tall and narrow chest of drawers, often topped by a mirror; rag-picker
I had angrily removed my collar and set it atop the chiffonier, when I suddenly caught sight of my own face, positively purple with fury.
4. foot up — to total a bill at its bottom
If you cannot find yourself at your desk at six o’clock every morning, it matters not how quickly you can foot up the accounts in pounds, shillings, and pence.
5. smaragdine — of or relating to emeralds; emerald green
I found myself staring deep into her gorgeous dark eyes, hypnotized by the smaragdine sparks hidden therein.
6. anagogic — spiritual; of mystical interpretation
Whitmer began to expound upon his anagogic interpretation of toast, detailing how the sacrifice of the amino acids in the bread to the radiant heat is transubstantiated through the mystical process into a revelatory new substance, the extrinsic goal of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
7. damson — small dark purple or black plum; dark to medium violet
Surely hers is not the only damson bonnet to be found in the village?
8. anfractuous — sinuous, circuitous
But it seemed that the more closely I tried to follow his anfractuous exposition the more hopelessly confused I became.
9. dimity — stout thin cotton fabric, with raised stripes
Herr Ploetzl greeted me in a pale yellow dimity dressing gown, grasping and shaking my hand as if he was trying to wring a towel dry.
10. scrip — small bag, satchel, wallet (esp. one carried by a beggar or pilgrim)
He rooted around in the worn leather scrip and finally extracted two plastic twenty-sided dice, one white and one black.
Bonus Vocabulary
(idiom, from sentry’s challenge)
qui vive — alert, state of watchfulness
Best keep on the qui vive until the sun is well and fully risen.