gwynhefar | Definitions

exequies: (n) Funeral rites; funeral ceremony; occasionally in the sense of funeral train or 'bier'.

puttock: (n) 1. A bird of prey; usually applied to the kite or the glede; sometimes to the common buzzard.
2 Applied opprobriously to a person, as having some attribute of the kite (e.g. ignobleness, greed).

glede: (n) The kite (Milvus regalis).

cadess: (n) Jackdaw.

bathos: (n) 1. Depth; lowest phase, bottom.
2. Ludicrous descent from the elevated to the commonplace in writing or speech; anticlimax.
3. A 'come-down' in one's career.

oblation: (n) 1. In the Christian Church, the presentation of money, goods, property, etc., to the Church for use in God's service, esp. for the maintenance of ministers, services, religious communities, etc., or for the relief of the poor; (also) that which is so presented; a donation or bequest of property for such a purpose; a customery offering on a particular occasion, esp. at the Eucharist.
2. The action of presenting a gift, esp. as a token of respect or honour; a gift so offered; in early use, specifically, a gratuity.
3. The action of offering an opportunity, inducement, or the like.
4. The action of solemnly offering or presenting something to a god; the offering of a sacrifice of thanksgiving or religious devotion; in the Christian Church, Christ's offering of himself to the Father for mankind.
5. In the Christian Church, the act of offering or presenting the elements of bread and wine to God in the Eucharist; the whole office of the Eucharist, esp. the Eucharist understood as offering or sacrifice.
6. That which is presented to God or to a god, esp. the elements of the Eucharist before consecration; (hence) any offering or sacrifice; a sacrificial victim.
7. A subsidy or tax; a gift to the monarch.

conglutination: (n) 1. The act of gluing together, or causing to cohere firmly by, or as by, some tenacious substance; the condition of being so glued together.
2. Union or junction of wounded parts or broken bones.

congelation: (n) 1. The action of congealing of freezing; the process or state of being congealed.
2. Freezing, as in line, point, zone of congelation.
3. The freezing of an animal body or member, so as to make it numb or dead; hence, formerly applied to the stupor and numbness attendant on certain diseases, as catalepsy, paralysis.
4. Frozen condition; a product of freezing; a frozen mass.
5. Action analogous or compared to freezing; conversion from a fluid to a solid state.
6. Crystallisation; formation of stalactites.
7. A concretion, crystallisation, petrification.
8. Formation of a jelly; coagulation, clotting.
9. A clot, a coagulation.

wittol: (n) 1. A man who is aware of and complaisant about the infidelity of his wife; a contented cuckold.
2. (with a possible pun on wit-all) One who has little sense; a half-witted person; a fool; occasionally a witling.
3. That is a wittol, pertaining to or characteristic of a wittol; half-witted, senseless.

witling: (n) A petty wit; one who fancies himself a wit; a pretender to wit; one who utters light or feeble witticisms.