lekythos/lecythus: (n) A vase or flask with a narrow neck.
pelike: (n) A type of amphora with an ovoid body, broad base and wide mouth, used to hold oil, wine, or water.
bailer: (n) 1. He who or that which bails water out; a man employed to bail out a ship; a utensil used for this purpose, a machine constructed to lift and throw out water from a pit, etc.
2. the shell of a gastropod mollusc of the genus Cymbium found in the south-western Pacific; also, the mollusc itself.
megaron: (n) The great central hall of a type of house characteristic esp. of the Mycenaean period, usually with an open pillared porch.
recce: (n) Military Slang: shortened form of 'reconnaissance'.
rhyton: (n) A form of drinking-cup often in the form of an animal's head and having a hole at the bottom through which the wine ran.
cursus: (n) The Latin word for 'course'; occasionally used in mediæval or technical senses
1. A race-course, running-ground, or drive; also used spec. of a type of neolithic monument
2. A stated order of daily prayer; a ritual, or form of celebration;
3. An academic course or curriculum.
4. The regular varying cadences which mark the end of sentences and phrases, esp. in Greek and Latin prose.
viaticum: (n) 1. The Eucharist, as administered to or received by one who is dying or in danger of death.
2. A supply of money or other necessaries for a journey; a sum given or taken to cover travelling expenses.
3. Provisions taken for use on a journey.
transept: (n) The transverse part of a cruciform church considered apart from the nave; also, each of the two subdivisions or arms of this
henge: (n) 1. In particular reference to the name Stonehenge: something ‘hanging’ or in suspense.
2. A term (first applied by T. D. Kendrick) for classes of monuments more or less akin to the stone circle of Stonehenge.
tump: (n) 1. A hillock, mound, a mole-hill, or ant-hill; a barrow, tumulus.
2. A clump of trees or shrubs; a clump of grass, esp. one forming a dry spot in a bog or fen.
3. A heap of anything; a hay-cock or rick; a heap of stones.
4. Trivial writing, bad prose.
floruit: (n) Occasionally used for: The period during which a person ‘flourished’.
faience: (n) A general term comprising all the various kinds of glazed earthenware and porcelain
entrepôt: (n) 1. Temporary deposit of goods, provisions, etc.; chiefly concr. a storehouse or assemblage of storehouses for temporary deposit.
2. A commercial centre; a place to which goods are brought for distribution to various parts of the world.
3. A mart or place where goods are received and deposited, free of duty, for exportation to another port or country.
percipient: (n) 1. A person who or thing which perceives.
2. A person who perceives something outside the range of the senses; a person with extra-sensory perception.
3. (adj) That perceives or is capable of perceiving; conscious; perceptive, discerning.
nescience: (n) 1. Absence or lack of knowledge, ignorance; a form or instance of ignorance.
2. Ignorance of something; an instance of this.
co(n)terminous: (adj) 1. Having a common boundary, bordering upon (each other).
2. Meeting at their ends.
3. Coincident in their boundaries; exactly co-extensive.
4. Exactly coextensive in time, range, sense, etc.
tocsin: (n) 1. A signal, esp. an alarm-signal, sounded by ringing a bell or bells: used orig. and esp. in reference to France.
2. Figuratively, an alarm or warning sign.
3. A bell used to sound an alarm.
desideratum: (n) Something for which a desire or longing is felt; something wanting and required or desired.
bracero: (n) A manual labourer; spec. a Mexican migrant worker in the United States, esp. (now hist.) one admitted to the country on a limited visa through any of various guest worker programmes in effect from 1942-64.
étagère: (n) A piece of furniture having a number of shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use.
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