amfore/amphora: (n) 1. In Classical Antiquity: A two-handled vessel, of various shape, used by the ancients for holding wine, oil, etc.
2. A liquid measure, containing, with the Greeks, about 9 gallons; with the Romans, containing 6 gals. 7 pts., and also called quadrantal.
locum: (n) 1. short for 'locum tenens': One who holds office temporarily in place of the person to whom the office belongs, or who undertakes another's professional duties during his absence; a deputy, substitute. In Great Britain now chiefly applied to the deputy of a medical practitioner or of a clergyman.
2. short for 'locum tenency': The position of being a locum tenens.
compline: (n) In Catholic ritual: The last service of the day, completing the services of the canonical hours; also, the hour of that service.
reive/reave: (v) 1. To commit spoliation or robbery; to plunder, pillage.
2. To despoil or rob (a person); to deprive (one) of something by force.
3. To spoil, rob, or plunder (a place or district).
4. To despoil, rob, or forcibly deprive (usually a person) of something.
5. With double object: To take (a thing or person) from (one) by, or as by, robbery or violence; to deprive (one) of (a possession, quality, etc.).
6. To take forcible possession of (something belonging to another); to take away from another for oneself.
7. To take away (life, rest, sight, etc.).
8. To take or carry away (a person) from another, from earth, to heaven, etc.; also ellipt. to carry off to heaven; to take away from earth or this life. (Also with soul as object.)
9. To deliver or rescue by carrying off.
10. To take away, remove, from some condition, activity, etc.
11. To snatch or lift up (in lit. and fig. senses).
12. To break in pieces; to burst.
13. To tear; to split, cleave.
14. To pluck or pull up.
15. To tear, drag, pull. Usually with up: To drag or rake up.
troika: (n) 1. A Russian vehicle drawn by three horses abreast.
2. A group or set of three persons (rarely things) or categories of people associated in power; a three-person commission or administrative council.
ormolu: (n) Originally: gold or gold leaf ground and prepared for gilding brass, bronze, or other metal. Later: gilded bronze or a gold-coloured alloy of copper, zinc, and tin used to decorate furniture, make ornaments, etc.; (also) articles made of or decorated with this.
trapunto: (n) A kind of quilting in which the design alone is padded
rhotacism: (n) 1. Excessive use or peculiar pronunciation of r; spec. the use of the burr or r grasseyé.
2. In Philology: Conversion of another sound (esp. s) into r.
machair: (n) A flat or low-lying coastal strip of arable land or grassland usually overlying shell sand; land of this kind. Particularly in Scotland.
guillemot: (n) The name of several species of sea birds of the genus Alca or Uria; especially Uria or Alca troile, the Common or Foolish Guillemot, and Uria grylle, the Black Guillemot.
clachan: (n) A small village or hamlet in the Highlands or west of Scotland.
dossy: (adj) Stylish, smart.
diapason: (n) 1. The interval of an octave; the consonance of the highest and lowest notes of the musical scale.
2. A part in music that produces such a consonance; an air or bass sounding in exact concord, i.e. in octaves.
3. Complete concord, harmony, or agreement.
4. More or less vaguely extended, with the idea of ‘all the tones or notes’, to:
a. The combination of parts or notes in a harmonious whole, properly in concord.
b. A melodious succession of notes, a melody, a strain; now esp. a swelling sound, as of a grand burst of harmony: perhaps in this sense also associated with the organ-stop
c. The whole range of tones or notes in the scale; the compass of a voice or instrument.
5. A rich, full, deep outburst of sound.
6. Entire compass, range, reach, scope.
7. A rule or scale employed by makers of musical instruments in tuning.
8. A fixed standard of musical pitch;
9. The name of the two principal foundation-stops in an organ, the Open Diapason, and the Closed or Stopped Diapason, so called because they extend through the whole compass of the instrument; also the name of other stops, e.g. Violin Diapason.
(v) 10. To resound sonorously.
11. To maintain accord with.
bothan: (n) Scottish: An unlicensed drinking house or hut of dubious legality, esp. in the Island of Lewis, a kind of shebeen.
shebeen: (n) 1. Chiefly in Ireland and Scotland: A shop or house where excisable liquors are sold without a licence; any low wayside public-house.
2. In South Africa, a (usu. Black) illicit establishment where liquor is sold or consumed. In extended sense: a drinking-party, especially among West Indians.
hudibrastic: (adj) 1. In the metre or after the manner of Hudibras, the celebrated mock-heroic satirical poem of Samuel Butler published in 1663-78; burlesque-heroic.
2. (n) Hudibrastic language, verse, or style.
cornichon: (n) also known as a 'gherkin': A young green cucumber, or a cucumber of a small kind, used for pickling.
melamine: (n) 1. In Chemistry: A crystalline heterocyclic compound, 2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-triazine, (CNH2)3N3. Also called cyanuramide.
2. Plastic derived from melamine resin.
3. Also the resin itself.
prannet: (n) British slang: An idiot.
parquet: (n) 1. Chiefly in North America: The ground floor of a theatre or auditorium; specifically the front part extending from behind the orchestra as far as the area beneath the galleries; seats in this area.
2. Flooring composed of blocks of wood (or occasionally other materials) arranged in a geometric pattern. Now usually as a mass noun.
3.In France and French-speaking countries: the branch of the administration concerned with the prevention, investigation, and punishment of crime.
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