1. scantling — small piece of wood, usu. used for studs etc.; blocks of wood of a given size; [nautical] framing timber of a vessel Finally we found the missing doubloon, covered in pitch and hidden in the scantlings just aft of the bilge. 2. pygarg — food animal, perhaps a species of antelope …
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1. temerarious — reckless, rash, heedless On the other hand, as a result of his temerarious purchase of Dogecoin he’s now a multi-billionaire. 2. shawm — medieval double-reed woodwind with a conical shape For the nonce we made merry, dancing to the strains of the sackbuts, shawms, and pipes. 3. brassie (also brassey) …
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1. matrix — womb, uterus That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that opens the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD’s. [Exodus 13:12 (KJV)] 2. hederated — decorated or crowned with ivy Under new management, however, the intriguing hederated adornment …
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1. agita — irritation, upset, anxiety; indigestion Me? I lose it completely—but Hélène doesn’t let the agita get to her at all. 2. hobeler (also hobbler) — light horseman, retainer who supplied his own hobby (a small horse or pony) All told we were able to assemble four score men-at-arms and sixty hobelers, with …
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1. bleb — vesicle, blister; bubble of air in fluid But the original insight was confirmed only when scientists inspected the steam blebs of ancient lava flows beneath the microscope. 2. assort — to distribute like things according to type Our first day in the creaking house found us assorting the heaps of material …
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1. excursive — digressive What was supposed to have been a pithy précis turned into an excursive epic under the weight of his overheavy pen, topping two hundred pages of turbid prose. 2. peterman — [slang] safecracker Though once he was renowned as a peterman of the first water, today he is as honest …
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1. tegument — covering; integument He stood haughtily above the field, his bronzed and polished armor a bright protective tegument over the doomed flesh within. 2. quiff — lock or curl of hair hanging over the forehead My eyes kept straying to the oiled quiff of his dark hair which he affected in some …
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1. glister — to sparkle Suddenly the last rock gave way and we felt the welcome breeze of the night air upon our begrimed faces, and beheld in wonder the glistering heavens spangled with an almost blinding glory of stars. 2. sequacious — tending to blindly follow others; pliable, easily molded But the sequacious …
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1. evert — to turn outward or inside out And so everted has the American Dream become that we are sated by likes and follows and bundles of steam and dark mode. 2. ophiophagous — eating snakes When I interned among the ophiophagous lawyers then practicing in Albany, I thought of the experience as …
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1. spancel — noosed rope used to hobble an animal Only a short spancel bound his ankles, but his arms were held tightly behind his back in a pair of police handcuffs. 2. traducianism — doctrine that the soul is generated from the parents at the moment of conception Tertullian’s view of the soul …