1. doab — [South Asia] tongue of low-lying land between two rivers which join, esp. that between the Ganges and the Yamuna
The Gurjars began to extend their control across the Doab until Sher Shah felt constrained to utterly destroy them.
2. epopt — initiate of the Eleusinian Mysteries; any initiate of a secret order
Some held that not only did an epopt share his delightful secret knowledge with his compeers in these deepest rites, but that he also was infused with a deep and profound insight into all things, giving him oracular powers unknown to other men.
3. faradism — treatment with AC electricity
Though some worry about the so-called ‘dangers’ of faradism in cranial massage, this is nothing but the old debate between it and galvanism in a new guise.
4. wangateur (f. wangateuse) — conjurer, witch-doctor
She should have known better than to go up against that wangateur and his hoodoo-sticks.
5. hydromel — weak mead
During this illness the patient should avoid all wine, though a cup of hydromel may be allowed from time to time.
6. kerf — cut made by a saw
The old lumberjack knew well to make a kerf on the side where the tree was to fall, before sawing on the side opposite.
7. Gram-negative — (of bacteria) appearing red when stained using Gram’s method
Gonorrhea is caused by Gram-negative diplococci bacteria first isolated in 1879.
8. leach — to lose soluble components through percolation
Boiling the broccoli in this way leaches almost all the nutrients from the vegetable, which may be why it was all to common to prepare it this way during the ’60s; certainly it was not for the taste.
9. coulee — deep gulch; small sometimes intermittent stream
But Mr. Thrombaites knew very well what would happen to the causeway once he caused the coulee to be dammed.
10. hypothermia — body temperature lower than normal
Wear many layers when hiking in this region, else hypothermia may result.