Monday, July 5, 2010

Antilogy:

A contradiction between any words and passages in an author.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Micher:

A lazy loiterer, who skulks about in corners and by-places, and keeps out of sight; a hedge-creeper.

-Hamner.

Mich or Mick is still retained in the cant language for an indolent, lazy fellow.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Bombycinous:

Silken; made of silk.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Arrode:

To gnaw or nibble.

Monday, June 28, 2010

Scuddle:

To scuddle. To run with a kind of affected haste or precipitation. A low word.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Affabulation:

The moral of a fable.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Quaffer:

To quaffer. (A low word, I suppose formed by chance.) To feel out. This seems to be the meaning.

"Ducks, having larger nerves that come into their bills than geese, quaffer and grope out their meat the most."

- Derham