Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Ruth:

Mercy; pity; tenderness; sorrow for the misery of another.

All ruth, compassion, mercy he forgot.

-Faifax

Friday, November 26, 2010

Cade:

Tame; soft, delicate; as a cade lamb, a lamb bred at home.

To cade: To breed up in softness

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Humorist

(1) One who conducts himself by his own fancy; one who gratifies his own humour.

(2) One who has violent and peculiar passions.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Incony

(1) Unlearned; artless

(2) In Scotland it denotes mischievously unlucky: as he's an incony fellow. This seems to be the meaning in Shakespeare.

"O my troth, most sweet jests, most incony vulgar wit,
When it comes so smoothly off.

-Shakespeare.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Annats:

First fruits; because the rate of first fruits paid of spiritual livings, is after one year's profit.

- Cowell

Friday, November 12, 2010

Improve:

To disprove.

"Though the prophet Jeremy was unjustly accused, yet doth not that improve any thing I have said.

-Whitgift

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Clancular:

Clandestine; secret; private; concealed; obscure; hidden.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Higgler:

One who sells provisions by retail.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Sapid:

Tasteful; palatable; making powerful stimulation upon the palate.

"Thus camels, to make water sapid, do raise the mud with their feet."

-Browne's Vulgar Errors.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Exanimous:

Lifeless; dead; killed.