Thursday, December 30, 2010

Orbity:

Loss, or want of parents or children.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Amort:

In the state of the dead; dejected; depressed; spiritless.

"How many fares my Kate? what, sweeting, all amort?"

-Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Deglutition:

The act or power of swallowing

Friday, December 17, 2010

Fleer:

(1) To mock; to gibe; to jest with insolence and contempt.

"Do I, like the female tribe, think it well to fleer and gibe?

-Swift

(2) To leer; to grin with an air of civility.

"How popular and courteous; how they grin and fleer upon every man they meet!

-Burton, On Melancholy

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Pudder:

A tumult; a turbulent and irregular bustle.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Latitant

Delitescent; concealed; lying hid.

This is evident in snakes and lizards, lattitant many months of the year, which containing a weak heat in a copious humidity, do long subsist without nutrition.

- Browne

Friday, December 3, 2010

Gride:

To cut; to make way by cutting. A word elegant but no longer in use.

So sore
The griding sword, with discontinuous wound,
Pass'd through him!

-Milton's Paradise Lost, b. vi.