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.