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COBBLER = iced drink; of wine or spirits, sugar, lemon etc.
BLACKTHORN = walking stick
IDRIS = Welsh giant
IRIS = goddess
ADUMBRATE = outline faintly
DAMASK = stuff
low = MOO
down = PLUMAGE cf. feathers
MISOGAMIST = single minded; fear or hatred of marriage
APPLE-PIE ORDER = in perfect condition
BATHETIC = disappointing; anticlamactic
TIME OUT OF MIND = ages and ages (ago); beyond human memory
PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Ecconomics)
CHINDIT = one who faught in Burma; commando
RATEL = honey badger
HUSH PUPPY = savouy doughnut
AMAH = nurse from China originally;
MOKE = donkey
DEFRAYAL = payment; act of payment of costs or expenses
BELOW THE SALT = Like worker in dining room
PALING = fence
OOLITE = grainy limestone
elders = trees
PINION = a bit of a lark say; wing, last joint of a wing, flight feather
ABAFT = nearer the stern; nautical term for behind
BUTT = target (in archery or shooting)
PRIAM = King of Troy
PIETA = religious work;
TUMID = bombastic
ESSE = actual existence
TOKAY = Hungarian wine
WINDLASS = winding machine
SABOT = shoe
LIST = pay attention; listen
PAWNEE = old American
COGNATE = relative
EPICURE = gourmet
FURZE = gorse
CHIT = child
FIRE-MASTER
COWPUNCHER = cowboy
EYE-RHYME = words similar in spelling but differing in pronunciation.
NIM = game
KEDGE = anchor
CLOSE = tight; mean, niggardly
ENORMITY = a great crime; wicked or heinous act
ANEROID = without liquid (water)
HECUBA = queen (Greek mythology)
SATRAP = governor (Persian)
NEGUS = drink;
ABROAD = over a wide area
INGRES = painter
ANCHORITE = hermit;
RHINO = money
UNCO = very Scottish; strange unusual
EFT = amphibian; Newt, lizard
BUCKSHEE = free
TED = to spread new mown grass for drying
TEDDER = farm machine ;implement for tedding, person who teds
STIRRUP-CUP = A drink for a hunt
W African tribe = IBO
TROLL = bait
COLLECT = A short prayer
HALF-HUNTER = watch
DRAGONS BLOOD = red resin from tree
ACONITES = plants
ARARAT = where to escape flood; the mountain where Noah’s ark came to rest
OPE = begin poetically; open
TUTTI = music instruction: to be played by all
SYSTOLE = rhythmic contraction esp. of the heart
FOMENT = kindle; encourage or foster
ECDYSIAST = stripper
LARBOARD = left; port, opposite of starboard
PELISSE = coat; esp. loose womans cloak, fur lined garment
INERTIA = type of selling
INERTIA SELLING = Illegal practice of sending unwanted goods and billing if not returned.
UNMANNED = dispirited; deprived of fortitude
BURRO = small donkey
PAINTER = Rope used to tie up a boat
ARMOIRE = wardrobe
Danes = dogs
place = LIEU
BEIGNET = a fritter
by = X
QUATRAIN = lines; stanza or poem of four lines.
INDIAMAN = ship; trading vessel used between GB and India
DIDIPPER = little grebe
TENUTO = Sustained
SCUTO = duck
OVERMUCH = excessive
ANTIMACASSARS = chair cover
MOJITO = cocktail
RAKI = aniseed drink
PHAETON = carriage
NETTLE = to annoy
AUSTER = wind; The South wind
INSATIATE = unable to get enough
lost = anag.
SCILICET (SC, SS) = namely; to wit
MAGUS = wizard
AARGH = expression of dismay
ROLAND = legendary fighter
ZINNIA = Showy garden feature; flower
EYRIE = High position; eagles nest
PANJANDRUM = self-important official
LASCAR = indian sailor
ENCOMIA = tributes; praise
PADRONE = innkeeper
MEDIA = Jason’s wife in Greek mythology
IDEATES = forms a mental image of;
SOL = the sun personified;
ZIL = Russian car
SPRIG = young person, ornamental device;
MANDALA = Buddhist symbol
articulated = homophone
JOCOSE = playful
CAT’S PAW = Someone else’s tool;
FROG = fastner
ADDUCE = Quote; bring forward in discussion
TAMALE = Mexican dish
CLOTHO = fate (one of the)
GAD = Tribe of Israel
Archbishop = TUTU
SEMIOTIC = Concerned with signs
TAFFETA = type of cloth
CLOTH = stuff
PYRETHRUM = crysanth
BURDEN = refrain; main theme of anything
BUSS = Rude or playful kiss
TANGELO = fruit
LOO = card game
TEST = river
ELEANOR = English Queen
writer = BIC
exclamation of digust = PAH
beer = BASS
proof of wine’s region = AC
cocaine = LINES
hide = DEN
BRIDEWELL = prison
NEEDLE-CASE = housewife
TIRO = A first campaign; beginner cf. TYRO
UGLI = fruit
DEFILE = pass; long narrow pass; march single file
MOLE = pier; massive breakwater
EPHEMERA = insects; objects of limited value
MALISON = curse
PALADIN = hero; Paragon of knighthood; One of the twelve Peers of Charlemagne’s court
GANGLION = nerve centre, bundle of nerves (anatomy); centre of energy/activity (literary)
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