Thursday, September 30, 2010

Defoedation:

The act of making filthy; pollution.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Baste:

To beat with a stick.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Lutarious:

Living in mud; of the color of mud.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Cropsick:

Sick with depletion; sick with excess and debauchery.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Overcloy:

To fill beyond satiety.

"A scum of Britons and base lackey peasants,
Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth
To desperate adventures and destruction."

-Shakespeare

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Oppidian:

A townsman; an inhabitant of a town.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Hourglass:

Space of time. A manner of speaking rather affected than elegant.

"We, within the hourglass of two months, have won one town, and overthrown great forces in the field."

-Bacon

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Joll:

To beat the head against anything; to clash with violence.

"The tortoises envied the easiness of frogs, 'till they saw them jolled to pieces and devoured for want of a buckler."

-L'Estrange