Pump

To pump:

To examine artfully by sly interrogatories, so to draw out any secrets or concealments.

Splash

To daub with dirt in great quantities.

Admurmuration

The act of murmuring, or whispering to another.

Right

An expression of approbation:

"Right, cries his lordship, for a rogue in need
To have a taste, is insolence indeed:
In me 'tis noble, suits my birth and state."

-Pope

Agonistes

A prize-fighter; one that contends at any public solemnity for a prize. Milton has so stiled his tragedy, because Sampson was called out to divert the Philistines with feats of strength.

Accost

To accost:

To speak first; to address, to solute.

"You mistake, knight: accost her, front her, board her, woo her, assail her."

-Shakespeare

Foist:

To insert by forgery.

Orgillous:

Proud; haughty.

Proverb

To proverb. Not a good word.

(1) To mention a proverb.

"Am I not sung and proverb'd for a fool
In ev'ry street; do they not say, how well
Are come upon him in his deserts?"

-Milton's Agonistes.

(2) To provide with a proverb.

Ouch of a Boar:

The blow given by a boar's tusk.

Argute

Subtle;
(1) witty; sharp.
(2) Shrill

Palmer:

A pilgrim: they who returned from the holy land carried branches of palm.

Palmer Worm:
A worm covered with hair, supposed to be so called because he wanders all over plants.

Ruse

Cunning; artifice; little stratagem; trick; wile; fraud; deceit. A French word neither elegant or necessary.

Conservative:

Having the power of opposing diminution or injury.

Liking:

(Perhaps because plumpness is agreeable to sight.)
Plump; in a state of plumpness

Maggot

Whimsy; caprice; odd fancy.

She pricked his maggot, and touched him in the tender point; then he broke out into violent passion.

-Arbuthnot

Merry Andrew

A buffoon; a zany; a jack-pudding.

"He would be a statesman because he is a buffoon; as if there went no more to the making of a counsellor than the faculties of a merry-andrew or tumbler."

-L'Estrange

Increpate:

To chide, to reprehend.

Reticense:

Concealment by silence

Macaroon:

A coarse, rude, low fellow; whence macaronick poetry, in which the language is purposely corrupted.

Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat,
Ready to travail; so I sigh and sweat,
To hear this macaroon talk in vain.

-Donne

Pervicacious

Spitefully obstinate; peevishly contumacious.

"May private devotions be efficacious upon the mind of one of the most pervicacious young creatures!"

Clarissa

Peat:

A little fondling; a darling; a dear play thing. It is now commonly called pet.

Glance

To Glance:

To censure by oblique hints.

"It was objected against him that he had written verses wherein he glanced at a certain reverend doctor, famous for his dulness."

-Swift.

Opinion

to Opinion:

To opine; to think. A word out of use and unworthy of revival.

"It is opinioned, that the earth rests as the world's centre; while the heavens are the subject of the universal motions.

-Glanville, Scepsis, c. xi

Tarantula:

An insect whose bite is only cured by musick.

Nestegg:

An egg left in the nest to keep the hen from forsaking it.

"Books and money laid for shew,
Like nesteggs, to make clients lay."

-Hudibras

Excise

A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

Excise,
"With hundred rows of teeth, the shark exceeds,
And on all trades like Cassawar she feeds."

-Marvel

Logomachy

A contention in words; a contention about words.