1. welting (also simply welt) — ridge, wale; strengthening seam with one edge of leather folded over the other
After hours of searching and the almost total destruction of Mr. Savoyed’s luggage, we found the microfilm on an impossibly narrow strip of rigid plastic concealed in the welting of the supposed banker’s briefcase.
2. guanay — cormorant native to Peru and Chile, one of the two guano-producing birds
The guanay swallowed the sardine with a glutinous gulp.
3. antalgic — easing pain
The old hobo walked with an antalgic gait due to the terrible blister beneath his left heel.
4. scrofula — lymphatic tuberculosis
Eventually, the so-called “king’s touch” came to be used almost exclusively for cases of scrofula, which, as it often went into spontaneous remission, tended to reinforce the belief in the monarch’s magic healing powers.
5. brychan — rough wool blanket
The Welshman had only a few sheep, just enough to make a brychan or two every season.
6. incumbent — being the current officeholder; obligatory, required
If I felt it incumbent upon me to work at my real job eight hours a day, I’d hardly have any presence at all on social media.
7. macron — straight horizontal mark over a letter
When first learning Latin, a macron will often be displayed over long vowels, though these are not seen in most versions of ancient texts.
8. florin — former British coin worth two shillings; gold coin of the city-state of Florence
The Colonel felt in his pockets for a florin to give the poor beggar.
9. musquash — [archaic] muskrat
Supposedly the trapper could lure the musquash to his canoe with such a whistling call, whereupon he would strike the rodent with his paddle.
10. feather — to turn the oar after a stroke so that it stays horizontal over the water’s surface during the return stroke whilst rowing
If you don’t learn to feather you’re going to catch a crab.