1. sebaceous — fatty; fat-producing
The wound revealed a sickly yellow sebaceous sac around some organ I could not identify.
2. chlamydeous — having floral parts, either calyx or corolla or both
Ah what chlamydeous wonders! Would the rose smell as sweet shorn of petals?
3. histology — study of biological tissues
“I can’t be certain until I get the results from Histology,” he said, “but I’m almost sure this is a case of aconite poisoning.”
4. tummler — gregarious activity director and emcee at Catskill Mountain resorts
Baird was a perfect tummler, lively enough to entertain, yet lacking the talent that would have detracted from the headliners.
5. onager — Asiatic wild ass; ancient rock-hurling siege weapon
The makeshift cords were already beginning to fray, and the onager we’d slapped together might fire only two more shots, three at most.
6. parataxic — emotionally unbalanced; not in harmony, unharmonious
And thus it was at this juncture, when the collapse of his romantic dreams had left him in this most parataxic state, that the commission entered his office to render their final judgment.
7. pindling — weak, puny
If it had not been beneath his dignity to ride the donkey, he would have chosen that stout beast rather than the pindling mare that was the only horse available.
8. exsert — to stick out
So hypnotized by those malevolent eyes was I that I hardly flinched as the fiendish serpent exserted its forked black tongue within inches of my face.
9. disadorned — bereft of ornaments
And now that the lights had been removed with some difficulty, shedding needles all about, the disadorned tree looked forlorn, waiting now only for its last journey to the city dump.
10. seisin — possession or right of possession of land or chattels
The judges agreed that seisin did appertain, even in the plaintiff’s minority, and thus the status of his villein could be abrogated.