Ordinal

noun 1 - Short for "ordinal number." 2 - Christian Church, chiefly historical a service book, esp. one with the forms of service used at ordinations. adjective - Of or relating to a thing's position in a series: "ordinal position of birth." - Of or relating to an ordinal number. - (Biology) Of or relating to a taxonomic order.

Remand

verb (law) [ trans. ]
- To place (a defendant) on bail or in custody, esp. when a trial is adjourned.
- To return (a case) to a lower court for reconsideration.

 noun
- A committal to custody.

Chock

noun
1
- A wedge or block placed against a wheel or rounded object, to prevent it from moving.
- A support on which a rounded structure, such as a cask or the hull of a boat, may be placed to keep it steady.

2
 - A fitting with a gap at the top, through which a rope or line is run.

 verb [ trans. ] (often be chocked)
- To prevent the forward movement of (a wheel or vehicle) with a chock.
- To support (a boat, cask, etc.) on chocks.

Bister/bistre

noun
- A brownish-yellowish pigment made from the soot of burned wood.
- The color of this pigment.

Nostrum

noun
- A medicine, esp. one that is not considered effective, prepared by an unqualified
 - A pet scheme or favorite remedy, esp. one for bringing about some social or political reform or improvement.

Archatron

(I can't find a definition for this word. Cormac McCarthy uses it on page 282 of Cities of the Plain in the following sentence:

She leaned and kissed him and stepped away and then the archatron came forward with his sword and raised it in his two hands above him and clove the traveler's head from his body.

Here, the "archatron" is the leader in a ceremony of ritual sacrifice.)

Peregrine

noun - A powerful falcon found on most continents, breeding chiefly on mountains and coastal cliffs and much used for falconry. [ORIGIN: translating the modern Latin taxonomic name, literally ‘pilgrim falcon,’ because the bird was caught full-grown as a passage hawk, not taken from the nest.] adjective (archaic) - Coming from another country; foreign or outlandish.

Enchase

verb
- To decorate (a piece of jewelry or work of art) by inlaying, engraving, or carving.
- To place (a jewel) in a setting.

Voluble

adjective- Speaking or spoken incessantly and fluently.

Hirsute

adjective
- Hairy.

Dishabille

(or deshabille) noun
- The state of being only partly or scantily clothed.
- A garment worn during such state of undress, such as a nightdress.
- A disorderly way of mind, way of thinking.

 ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from French déshabillé, ‘undressed.’

Macadam

noun
- Broken stone of even size used in successively compacted layers for surfacing roads and paths, and typically bound with tar or bitumen.
- A stretch of road with such a surface.

Lamina

noun ( pl. -nae) (technical)
- A thin layer, plate, or scale of sedimentary rock, organic tissue, or other material.

Cruciform

adjective - Having the shape of a cross : a cruciform sword. - Of or denoting a church having a cross-shaped plan with a nave and transepts. noun - A thing shaped like a cross.

Capstan

noun - A revolving cylinder used for winding a rope or cable, powered by a motor or pushed around by levers. - The motor-driven spindle on a tape recorder that makes the tape travel past the head at constant speed.

Stob

noun (dialect) - A broken branch or a stump. - a stake used for fencing. ORIGIN Middle English : variant of stub .

Curry

verb ( -ries, -ried) [ trans. ]
- Groom (a horse) with a rubber or plastic curry-comb
- (historical) Treat (tanned leather) to improve its properties.
- (archaic) Thrash; beat.

Plebiscite

noun - The direct vote of all the members of an electorate on an important public question such as a change in the constitution. - (Roman History) A law enacted by the plebeians' assembly.

Serge

noun
- A durable twilled woolen or worsted fabric.

verb [ trans. ]
- Overcast (the edge of a piece of material) to prevent fraying.

Diaphanous

adjective
- Light, delicate, and translucent.

Organza

noun
- A light, stuff, translucent fabric made from silk or synthetic yarn. Similar to material used for wedding dresses.

Pleniloquence

noun
- Loquacity. Excessive speaking.

Redact

verb [
(rare)
- Edit (text) for publication.

Pericope

noun
- An extract from a text, especially from the Bible.

Invective

noun
- Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language.

Ad hoc

ad hoc |ˈad ˈhäk; ˈhōk|adjective & adverbformed, arranged, or done for a particular purpose only : [as adj. ] an ad hoc committee | the discussions were on an ad hoc basis | [as adv. ] the group was constituted ad hoc.

Collocate

collocate |ˈkäləˌkāt|verb1 [ intrans. ] Linguistics (of a word) be habitually juxtaposed with another with a frequency greater than chance : “maiden” collocates with “voyage.”2 [ trans. ] rare place side by side or in a particular relation : [as adj. ] ( collocated) McAndrew was a collocated facility with Argentia Naval Station.noun Linguisticsa word that is habitually juxtaposed with another with a frequency greater than chance : collocates for the word “mortgage” include “lend” and “property.”

Orthogonal

adjective
- Of or involving right angles; at right angles.
 - (Statistics) (of variates) statistically independent; (of an experiment) having variates that can be treated as statistically independent.

Apiary

noun
- A place where bees are kept, a collection of beehives.

Lapse

noun
- A temporary failure of a mental faculty such as focus, memory, judgment.
- An interval of time.

verb
- Become invalid from disuse, lack of renewal.
- Fail to be maintained.
- Cease to practice the rules of a doctrine.
- Pass into an inferior condition.

Adjure

verb
(formal)
- To solemnly/earnestly urge or request someone to do something.

noun - "adjuration"
adjective - "adjuratory"

Impanel/empanel

verb- Enlist or enroll (a jury).- Enroll (someone) on to a jury.

Jamb

noun- A side post or surface of a doorway, window, or fireplace.- A columnar mass or pillar in a mine or quarry.

Declaim

verb- Utter or deliver words or a speech in a rhetorical orimpassioned way, as if to an audience.- (declaim against) forcefully protest against or criticize (something).

Hasp

noun
- A slotted hinged metal plate that forms part of a fastening for a door or lid and is fitted over a metal loop and secured by a pin or padlock.
 - A similar metal plate on a trunk or suitcase with a projecting piece that is secured by the lock.

verb
(archaic)
- Lock (a door, window, or lid) by securing the hasp over the loop of the fastening.

Starveling

noun, adjective
(archaic)
- An undernourished or emaciated thing.

Beetle

verb - (Of a person's eyebrows or other cliff) project or overhang threateningly. (adjective "beetling")

Cerement

noun
(usually "cerements"; coined by Shakespeare)
- Waxed cloth for wrapping a corpse.

New-fangled

adjective
- (Derogatory) Different from what one is used to; objectionably new.

Factotum

noun
- A handyman or servant who is employed to do all kinds of work, especially around the house.
- Any employee or official having many different responsibilities.

Basilica

noun
- A large oblong hall/building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse, used in ancient Rome s a court of law or for public assemblies.
- A similar building used as a Christian church.
- The name given to certain churches granted special privileges by the pope.

Brockle-face

noun
- An animal having blotches of colored hair on an otherwise colored face.

Strop

- A strip of leather used for sharpening leather.
- (Nautical) A rope sling for handling cargo (also strap).

Bole

- The trunk of a tree.
- Fine, compact, earthy clay, usually of a reddish color. Used as pigment.

Suspire

verb
(Poetic/literary)
- Breathe.

noun - "suspiration"

Hendiadys

noun
(Rhetoric)
- The expression of a single idea by two words connected with "and" when one would could be used to modify the other: "Soft and whispering" would be an instance of hendiadys: contrast with "softly whispering."

Rosin

noun
- Resin, esp. the solid amber residue obtained after the distillation of crude turpentine oleoresin, or of naphtha extract from pine stumps. It is used in adhesives, varnishes, and inks and for treating the bows of stringed instruments.

verb ( rosined, rosining)
- Rub (something, esp. the bow of a stringed instrument) with rosin.

Cowl

noun
- A large loose hood, especially one forming part of a monk's habit.
- A monk's hooded, sleeveless habit.
- A cloak with wide sleeves worn by members of Benedictine orders.
- The hood-shaped covering of a chimney or ventilation shaft.
- The part of a motor vehicle that supports the windshield and houses the dashboard.
- Another term for cowling.

Veronica

- A herbaceous plant of north temperate regions, typically with upright stems bearing narrow pointed leaves and spikes of blue or purple flowers.
- A cloth supposedly impressed with an image of Jesus' face, or a picture of Jesus' face similar to this.
- (Bullfighting) a slow movement of the cape away from a charging bull by the matador, who stands in place. [ORIGIN: said to be by association of the attitude of the matador with the depiction of St. Veronica holding out a cloth to Jesus ( see Veronica, St. ).

Circumspect

adjective
- Wary and unwilling to take risks.

Rime

noun (also rime ice)
- Frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing of water vapor in cloud or fog; hoarfrost.

verb [
- (poetic/literary) Cover an object with hoarfrost.

Lave

verb
- Wash.
- Wash a liquid against or over something.

noun "Lavation"

Stanchion

noun
- An upright bar, post, or frame forming a support or barrier.

Obumbrate

verb
- To darken, overshadow, cloud.

Walleye

noun
- An eye with a streaked or opaque white iris.
- An eye directed abnormally outward.
- A popular North American sporting/food pikeperch fish with large, opaque, silvery eyes.

Satiety

noun
- The state of being fed beyond capacity. Surfeit.
- The revulsion or disgust caused by overindulgence or excess.

Nystagmus

noun
- A congenital or acquired persistent, rapid, involuntary, and oscillatory movement of the eyes, usually from side to side.

Lithe

adjective
- (Especially of a person's body) Thin, supple, and graceful.

Mendicant

adjective
- Given to begging.
- Of or denoting one of the religious orders that originally relied solely on alms.

noun
- A beggar.
- A member of a mendicant order.

Salubrious

adjective
- Health giving; healthy.
- (Of a place) Pleasant, in good repair.

Diminuendo

noun

- A decrease in loudness.
- A passage performed with such a decrease.

adverb & adjective
- With a decrease in loudness.

verb (-dos, -doed)
- To decrease in loudness.

Emulous

adjective

- Desirous of equaling or excelling; filled with emulation.
- Arising from or of the nature of emulation, as actions or attitudes.
- (Obsolete) Jealous; envious.

Larceny

noun
- The theft of personal property.

Foxfire

noun
- The phosphorescent light emitted by certain fungi on decaying timber.

Kerf

noun
- A slit made by cutting, especially with a saw.
- The cut end of a felled tree.

Crevasse

noun
(Geology)
- A deep crack in an ice sheet or glacier (as opposed to a crevice, which forms in rock).

Lunette

noun
- Something that has the shape of a crescent or half-moon, such as:

1. An opening in a vault, especially for a window.
2. The surface at the upper part of a wall that is partly surrounded by a vault which the wall intersects and that is often filled by windows or by mural painting.
3. A low crescentic mound (as of sand) formed by the wind.

- The figure or shape of a crescent moon.

Lugubrious

adjective
- Looking or sounding sad, dismal, glum.

Interfluve

noun
(Geology)
- The elevated region between two rivers that are part of the same drainage system.