Friday, August 13, 2010

Seely:

(1) Lucky, happy.

(2) Silly; foolish; simple.

-Spenser

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Monday, August 9, 2010

Lazar:

One deformed and nauseous with filthy and pestilential diseases.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Cog:

(1) To flatter; to wheedle; to sooth by adulatory speeches.

(2) To obtrude by falsehood.

"Fustian tragedies, or insipid comedies, have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces."

-Dennis

Monday, August 2, 2010

Garboil:

Disorder; tumult; uproar.

-Hanmer

Friday, July 30, 2010

Conycatch:

To catch a cony, is, in the old cant of thieves, to cheat; to bite; to trick.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Recreant

Cowardly; meanspirited; subdued; crying out for mercy; recanting out of fear.

"Thou Must, as a foreign recreant, be led With manacles along our street."

-Shakespeare