Obvention:

Something happening not constantly and regularly, but uncertainly; incidental advantage.

Gavel:

A provincial word for ground.

Handsel:

To use or do anything the first time.

Nocent:

(1) Guilty; criminal.

(2) Hurtful, mischievous.

Hen-hearted:

Dastardly; cowardly; like a hen. A low word.

Miserable:

Culpably parsimonious; stingy.

Develop:

To disengage from something that enfolds and conceals; to disentangle; to clear from its covering.

"Take him to develop, if you can,
And hew the block off, and get out the man."

-Dunciad

Assistant:

Sometimes it is only a softer word for attendant.

"The pale assistants on each other star'd
With gaping mouths for issuing words prepar'd"

-Dryden

Girn:

Seems to be a corruption of grin. It is still used in Scotland, and is applied to a crabbed, captious, or peevish person.

Farce:

A dramatick representation written without regularity, and stuffed with wild and ludicrous conceits.

Lurch:

(1) To devour; to swallow greedily.

"Too far off from great cities may hinder business; or too near lurcheth all provisions, and maketh everything dear."

-Bacon's Essays.

(2) To defeat; to disappoint. A word now only used in burlesque. (From the game lurch.)

(3) To steal privily; to filch; to pilfer.

Oberration:

The act of wandering about.

Compliment:

An act, or expression of civility, usually understood to include some hypocrisy, and mean less than it declares.

Serene:

A calm damp evening.

To serene:

(1) to calm; to quiet.

(2) To clear; to brighten. Not proper.

(3) Take care.

"Thy muddy bev'rage to serene, and drive
Precipitant the baser ropy lees."

-Phillips

Fascinate:

To bewitch; to enchant; to influence in some wicked and secret manner.

Bedash:

To bemire by throwing dirt; to bespatter; to wet with throwing water.

Snip:

A share; a snack. A low word.

"He found his friend upon the mending hand which he was glad to hear, because of the snip that he himself expected upon the dividend."

- L'Estrange

Amuser:

He that amuses, as with false promises. The French word is always taken in an ill sense.

Peeler:

A robber; a plunderer.

"Ye otes with her sucking a peeler is found,
Both ill to the maister and worse to some ground."

-Tusser

Lob:

(1) Any one heavy, clumsy, or sluggish.

(2) Lob's pound; a prison. Probably a prison for idlers, or sturdy beggars.

(3) A big worm.

Dogged:

Sullen; sour; morose; ill-humoured; gloomy.

Fustilarian:

A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. A word used by Shakespeare only.

"Away, you scullian, you rampallian, you fustilarian: I'll tickle your catastrophe."

-Shakespeare's Henry IV, p. ii

Phiz:

The face, in a sense of contempt.

"His hair was too proud, and his features amiss,
As if being a traitor had altered his phiz."

-Stepney

Cicurate:

To tame; to reclaim from wildness; to make tame and tractable.