fillip: (n) 1. A movement made by bending the last joint of a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing it (so as to propel some small object, or merely as a gesture); a smart stroke or tap given by this means.
2. Something of small importance; a trifle. Also, a short space of time, a moment.
3. In a wider sense: A smart blow (with the fist, etc.).
4. Something that serves to rouse, excite, or animate; a stimulus.
mullion: (n) 1. In Architecture: Any of the (usually vertical) bars dividing the lights in a window, especially in Gothic architecture. Also: a similar bar forming divisions in screen-work or panelling.
2. In Geology: Each of a series of ribs or columns of rock on a rock face, typically composed of the local rock and usually formed by folding.
vindaloo: (n) An Indian curry dish made with meat, fish, or poultry in a sauce of garlic, wine (or vinegar), spices, etc.
verger: (n) 1. A garden or orchard; a pleasure-garden.
2. An official who carries a rod or similar symbol of office before the dignitaries of a cathedral, church, or university (or before justices).
3. One whose duty it is to take care of the interior of a church, and to act as attendant.
4. A rod carried as a symbol of office.
scuttle: (n) 1. A dish, trencher, platter.
2. A basket for sifting or winnowing corn; hence, a large shovel to cast grain in winnowing, a casting-shovel.
3. A large open basket wide at the mouth and narrow at the bottom, usually of wickerwork, used for carrying corn, earth, vegetables, etc.
4. Nautical: A square or rectangular hole or opening in a ship's deck smaller than a hatchway, furnished with a movable cover or lid, used as a means of communication between deck and deck; also a similar hole in the deck or side of a ship for purposes of lighting, ventilation, etc.
5. A hole cut or bored through any part of a ship, especially for salving the cargo.
6. The lid of a scuttle-hole or hatchway.
7. An opening in the roof, floor, wall, etc. of a building closed with a shutter or lid; a trap-door; also the shutter of such an opening.
8. A platform at the head of a lower mast; a ‘top’.
9. A cuttle-fish.
10. A short hurried run.
11. In Manchester: A street faction-fight between bands of young people.
gammon: (n) 1. The ham or haunch of a swine.
2. The bottom piece of a flitch of bacon, including the hind leg; also, a smoked or cured ham.
3. In Scots: the feet of an animal; often those of pigs, sometimes called petit-toes.
4. Nautical: The lashing of the bowsprit.
5. The game of backgammon.
6. A term at backgammon, denoting a degree of victory which scores equal to two ‘hits’ or ‘games’.
7. In phrases 'to give gammon', 'to keep in gammon': to engage (a person's) attention while a confederate is robbing him.
8. Talk, chatter. Usually 'gammon and patter'.
9. Ridiculous nonsense suited to deceive simple persons only; ‘humbug’, ‘rubbish’.
exordium: (n) The beginning of anything; especially the introductory part of a discourse, treatise, etc.
gestatio: (n) In Roman Antiquity: an avenue set apart for exercise either on horseback on in a horse-drawn vehicle. It was generally laid out in the form of a circus.
specularium: (n) an ancient greenhouse using mirrorstone or mica.
grullo: (n) 1. a colour of horses in the dun family, characterized by tan-gray or mouse-colored hairs on the body, often with shoulder and dorsal stripes and black barring on the lower legs.
2. A horse having this colour.
cayuse: (n) In North America: A common Indian pony; also, colloquial for any horse.
dosimeter: (n) An apparatus for measuring doses or the like; specifically a recording device to measure ionizing radiation, especially one worn by a person exposed to potentially harmful radiation.
leishmaniasis: (n) Any of several diseases, principally kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis), oriental sore (cutaneous leishmaniasis) and espundia (muco-cutaneous or American cutaneous leishmaniasis), which are caused by species of Leishmania
Leishmania: (n) Any protozoon of the genus Leishmania (family Trypanosomidæ), comprising three species which are parasitic in man (and occasionally other mammals), occurring as non-flagellated Leishman-Donovan bodies, and which are transmitted by sandflies of the genus Phlebotomus, wherein they occur as flagellated individuals in the alimentary canal. Also, any flagellate of the family Trypanosomidæ when existing in a leishmanial form.
mycoplasma: (n) 1. A hypothetical condition in which a fungus or fungus-like organism exists symbiotically within a plant by combination of its cytoplasm with that of the plant cells.
2. Any microorganism of the genus Mycoplasma, comprising very small pleomorphic prokaryotes which are bounded by a trilaminar membrane and lack a cell wall, and which are parasites and pathogens of humans, other mammals, and birds; (in form Mycoplasma) the genus itself. Also: any member of the order Mycoplasmatales or class Mollicutes, which includes this and several related genera. Originally called pleuropneumonia-like organism, PPLO.
pleomorphic: (adj) 1. In Microbiology and Pathology: Having more than one morphological form, especially at different stages of the life cycle or in different conditions.
2. In Pathology: Designating or relating to a tumour (especially of a salivary gland) that contains a mixture of cell or tissue types.
trilaminar: (adj) having or consisting of three layers.
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