Lorel

An abandoned scoundrel.

Obsolete

Finesse

Artiface; strategem: an unnecessary word which is creeping into the language.

Case

In ludicrous language, a condition with regard to leanness, or health.

"For if the sire be faint, or out of case,
He will be copy'd in his famish'd race"

Dryden's Virgil.

Conundrum

A low jest; a quibble; a mean conceit: a cant word.

"Mean time he smoaks, and laughs at a merry tale,
Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint.

-Phillips

Stickle

(1) To take part with one side or other.

(2) To contest; to altercate; to contend rather with obstinancy than vehemence.

(3)To trim; to play fast and loose; to act a part between opposites.

Demure

Grave; affectedly modest: it is now generally taken in a sense of contempt.

"So cat, transfrom'd, sat gravely and demure
"Till mouse appear'd, and thought himself secure.

-Dryden

Cant:

(1) A corrupt dialect used by beggars and vagabonds.

(2) A particular form of speaking peculiar to some certain class or body of men.
"I write not always in the proper terms of navigation, land service, or in the cant of any profession.
-Dryden.

(3) A whining pretension to goodness, in formal and affected terms.

(4) Barbarous jargon.

(5) Auction.