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1. messuage<\/strong> \u2014 dwelling house along with its outbuildings and attached lands dedicated to household use<\/p>\n

We had a small <\/em>messuage in my youth, though to be fair the only outbuilding was a leaky prefab toolshed poorly placed in the sloping backyard.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. byre<\/strong> \u2014 shed for cows<\/p>\n

The beeves in the <\/em>byre became restless, suddenly awake and uncertain as to why.<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. machan<\/strong> \u2014 hunting platform in tree<\/p>\n

My client kept nipping from his flask whenever he thought I wouldn’t notice, and soon I began to worry that he would take a drunken tumble from the <\/em>machan and break his neck at the base of the tree.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. chape<\/strong> \u2014 metal point folded over or sometimes enclosing the tip of a sword scabbard<\/p>\n

Though we found several <\/em>chapes and a brooch near the remains of the largest fire, the digging revealed no swords or pieces of swords.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. clerestory<\/strong> \u2014 upper part of building rising above interior space so as to allow the entry of daylight through high windows<\/p>\n

Looking up from his paper as he sat in his easy chair, he could just make out through the rightmost window of the <\/em>clerestory a small bird, perhaps a finch, clinging to the highest branch of the lemon tree, bobbing up and down in the morning wind coming in from the ocean.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. yester<\/strong> \u2014 (archaic<\/em>) of or relating to yesterday<\/p>\n

I found it difficult to believe that it was only <\/em>yester noon that I had first met this chap who already seemed to be a bosom friend.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. defervesce<\/strong> \u2014 to experience abatement of fever<\/p>\n

Finally the patient <\/em>defervesced and I was able to reassure the family that the crisis had passed.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. thitherward<\/strong> \u2014 toward that place; on the way thither<\/p>\n

Boney thought he’d seen a shallower place upstream about a half mile, so we retraced our weary steps <\/em>thitherward and I tried not to despair of reaching the battalion in time.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. foreweary<\/strong> (also forweary<\/strong>) \u2014 to make tired at an earlier time<\/p>\n

Robie and Paskell, unused to the rigors of the march and <\/em>forewearied by carrying the heavy teak commode up the side of the mountain, laid down by the fire and almost immediately both fell asleep.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. jess<\/strong> \u2014 short leather strap tied around each leg of a hunting hawk, usu. with ring for attaching bird to its perch<\/p>\n

“Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to put <\/em>jesses on that wild bird, but I fear that she’ll never be tamed.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bonus Vocabulary<\/h4>\n

(British slang)<\/p>\n

sprog<\/strong> \u2014 child; [RAF] young recruit<\/p>\n

They imagined they were tough, these beastly <\/em>sprogs in their baggy tracksuits, but all their pretended menace they’d learned from music videos and Ali G.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. messuage \u2014 dwelling house along with its outbuildings and attached lands dedicated to household use We had a small messuage in my youth, though to be fair the only outbuilding was a leaky prefab toolshed poorly placed in the sloping backyard.   2. byre \u2014 shed for cows The beeves in the byre became … <\/p>\n

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