YEAR OF WONDERS

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Glossary Year of Wonders
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  1. cupping
    a treatment in which evacuated cups are applied to the skin to draw blood through the surface
  2. ague
    chills and fever that are symptomatic of malaria
  3. andiron
    metal supports for logs in a fireplace
  4. arrogate
    seize and take control without authority
  5. assizes
    the county courts of England
  6. assuage
    provide physical relief, as from pain
  7. astringent
    tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue
  8. aubergine
    a plant that grows edible, dark-purple fruit
  9. burlap
    coarse jute fabric
  10. blench
    turn pale, as if in fear
  11. byre
    a barn for cows
  12. bruit
    tell or spread rumors
  13. cairn
    a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path
  14. camber
    a slight convexity (as of the surface of a road)
  15. cambric
    a finely woven white linen
  16. carrack
    a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman
  17. cataplasm
    a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
  18. caul
    the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates
  19. chattel
    personal property, as opposed to real estate
  20. chouse
    defeat someone through trickery or deceit
  21. cooper
    a craftsman who makes or repairs wooden barrels or tubs
  22. crofter
    an owner or tenant of a small farm in Great Britain
  23. cuddy
    the galley or pantry of a small ship
  24. cucking stool
    an instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water
  25. euphony
    any pleasing and harmonious sounds
  26. espalier
    a trellis on which ornamental shrub or fruit tree is trained to grow flat
  27. Damascene
    a native or inhabitant of Damascus
  28. ewer
    an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring
  29. excrescence
    something that bulges out or projects from its surroundings
  30. flitch
    salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork
  31. florid
    inclined to a healthy reddish color
  32. flux
    a state of constant change
  33. galled
    painful from having the skin abraded
  34. gimbal
    an appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips
  35. gravid
    in an advanced stage of pregnancy
  36. haik
    an outer garment consisting of a large piece of white cloth
  37. heft
    bulk or weightiness
  38. keen
    intense or sharp
    The woman, lost in grief, were keening over the coffin of the dead child, their tears falling on the rough wood.
    Here, keening means a wailing lament for the dead - this would be an intense or sharp grief!
  39. kine
    domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
  40. jowl
    a looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw
  41. lapwing
    large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
  42. lathe
    a machine tool for shaping a piece of rotating wood or metal
  43. loamy
    consisting of or having the character of rich soil
  44. limning
    a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects
  45. mallow
    any of various plants of the family Malvaceae
    used for marshmallow!
  46. mewl
    cry weakly or softly
  47. moor
    open land with peaty soil covered with heather and moss
Created on Mon Jun 10 21:28:32 EDT 2013

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