A New Dictionary

aroint, v.
Begone.

boscage, n.
Mass of trees or shrubs; thicket.

carking, a.
Burdensome, distressful.

divagate, v.
Stray, wander; digress in speech.

eldritch, a.
Weird, hideous, eerie.

foozle, n.
An error, a messed up task; clumsy failure.

gobemouche, n.
Credulous newsmonger; silly and credulous person. Literally 'fly swallower'.

hortative, a.
Tending, serving, to exhort.

inchoate, a.
not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary. Just begun.

jannock, a.
Honest, fair, straightforward.

kerf, n.
Slit made by cutting with a saw; cut end of felled tree.

lethologica, n.
The inability to remember a word or put your finger on the right word

maugre, prep.
In spite of; notwithstanding.

natation, n.
The act or skill of swimming.

objurgate, v.
To reproach or denounce vehemently, upbraid harshly, berate sharply, chide, scold.

parvenu, n.
Person of obscure origin who has gained wealth or position, upstart.

quire, n.
Four sheets of paper folded to form eight leaves; any collection of leaves one within another in manuscript or book; 24 sheets of writing paper.

rhotacism, n.
excessive use of the sound (r), its misarticulation, or the substitution of another sound for it.

scrannel, a.
Squeaky, feeble, unmelodious.

tergiversate, v.
To change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject; equivocate. To turn renegade, apostatize, turn one's coat.

ulotrichan, n.
Woolly haired; belonging to a group of people having woolly hair.

verso, n.
A left-hand page of an open book or manuscript.

welkin, n.
The sky, the vault of heaven

Xanthippe, n.
A scolding or ill-tempered wife; shrewish woman.

yegg, n.
Itinerant burglar; safe breaker.

Zingaro, n.
A Gypsy