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gwynhefarsplenetic: (adj) 1. Of or pertaining to, connected with, the spleen; splenic.
2. Affected with, or suffering from, disease or disorder of the spleen; in later use, affected with melancholia or hypochondria.
3. Characterised by, tending to produce, melancholy or depression of spirits.
4. Having an irritably morose or peevish disposition or temperament; given or liable to fits of angry impatience or irritability; ill-humoured, testy, irascible.
5. Characterised by, arising from, displaying or exhibiting, spleen or ill-humour.
6. Of medicines: Acting on, good for, the spleen.
(n) 7. One who suffers from disease or disorder of the spleen.
8. One who has a splenetic disposition; a splenetic, peevish, or ill-humoured person.
9. A splenetic medicine or remedy.
battledore: (v) To drive, toss or fly to and fro.
hawse-hole: (n) A cylindrical hole, of which there are two in the bows of a vessel, for the cable to run through. Also, in the phrase "To enter (come, creep, get in) by the hawse-holes": to enter the service at the lowest grade, to rise from before the mast.
febrile: (adj) 1. Of a person: Affected by, or suffering from, fever.
2. Of or pertaining to fever; produced by or indicative of fever; feverish.
pow: (n) Scottish or Northern dialect version of poll: The head of man or beast.
dominie: (n) 1. A schoolmaster, pedagogue.
2. The (male) keeper of a boarding-house or Dame's house for oppidans at Eton.
3. In U.S., the title of a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church (more historically spelt domine); whence in New York, New Jersey, etc. extended colloquially to ministers and parsons of other churches.
supercargo: (n) An officer aboard a merchant ship whose business it is to superintend the cargo and the commercial transactions of the voyage. Also formerly, an agent who superintended a merchant's business in a foreign country.
hidalgo: (n) In Spain: One of the lower nobility; a gentleman by birth.
2. Affected with, or suffering from, disease or disorder of the spleen; in later use, affected with melancholia or hypochondria.
3. Characterised by, tending to produce, melancholy or depression of spirits.
4. Having an irritably morose or peevish disposition or temperament; given or liable to fits of angry impatience or irritability; ill-humoured, testy, irascible.
5. Characterised by, arising from, displaying or exhibiting, spleen or ill-humour.
6. Of medicines: Acting on, good for, the spleen.
(n) 7. One who suffers from disease or disorder of the spleen.
8. One who has a splenetic disposition; a splenetic, peevish, or ill-humoured person.
9. A splenetic medicine or remedy.
battledore: (v) To drive, toss or fly to and fro.
hawse-hole: (n) A cylindrical hole, of which there are two in the bows of a vessel, for the cable to run through. Also, in the phrase "To enter (come, creep, get in) by the hawse-holes": to enter the service at the lowest grade, to rise from before the mast.
febrile: (adj) 1. Of a person: Affected by, or suffering from, fever.
2. Of or pertaining to fever; produced by or indicative of fever; feverish.
pow: (n) Scottish or Northern dialect version of poll: The head of man or beast.
dominie: (n) 1. A schoolmaster, pedagogue.
2. The (male) keeper of a boarding-house or Dame's house for oppidans at Eton.
3. In U.S., the title of a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church (more historically spelt domine); whence in New York, New Jersey, etc. extended colloquially to ministers and parsons of other churches.
supercargo: (n) An officer aboard a merchant ship whose business it is to superintend the cargo and the commercial transactions of the voyage. Also formerly, an agent who superintended a merchant's business in a foreign country.
hidalgo: (n) In Spain: One of the lower nobility; a gentleman by birth.
