Grease:

To bribe; to corrupt with presents.

"envy not the store
Of the grease'd advocate that grinds the poor."

-Dryden; Persius

Wiffle:

To move inconstantly, as if driven by a puff of wind.

Aloof:

It is applied to things not properly belonging to each other.

"Love's not love,
When it is mingled with regards that stand
Aloof from th' entire point."

-Shakespeare's King Lear.

Egestion:

The act of throwing out the digested food at the natural vents.

Immanity:

Barbarity; savageness

Genial:

That which contributes to propagation.

"Creator Venus, genial pow'r of love
The bliss of men below and gods above!"

-Dryden's Fables.

Anatocism:

The accumulation of interest upon interest; the addition of interest due for money lent, to the original sum. A species of usury generally forbidden.

Flatter:

(1) To sooth with praises; to please with blandishments; to gratify with servile obsequiousness; to gain by false compliments.

(2) To praise falsely.

(3) To please; to sooth. This sense is purely Gallick.

Runagate:

A fugitive; rebel; apostate.

Circumforaneous:

Wandering from house to house. As a circumforaneous fidler; one that plays at doors.

Adventure:

An accident; a chance; a hazard; an event of which we have no direction.

Parody:

A kind of writing, in which the words of the author or his thoughts are taken, and by a slight change adapted to some new purpose.

Droil

A drone; a sluggard.

Hector:

A bully; a blustering, turbulent, pervicacious, noisy fellow.

Stridulous:

Making a small noise.

Nag:

A paramour; in contempt.

"Your ribald nag of Egypt
Hoists sails, and flies."

-Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra.

Infatuate:

To strike with folly; to deprive of understanding.

Disparage:

To match unequally; to injure by union with something inferior in excellence.

Sneb:

To check; to chide; to reprimand

Oscitancy:

(1) The act of yawning.

(2) Unusual sleepiness; carelessness.