Continuing the list of olde archaic words for your enjoyment and enlightenment:
Gull-groper - A bystander that lends money to the gamesters.
Blutterbunged - confounded, overcome by surprise.
Minnock - To affect delicacy, to ape the manners of one's superiors.
Word-wanton - Obscene in speech.
Taghairm - A wild species of magic was practiced in the district of Trotternish that was attended with a horrible solemnity. A family who pretended to oracular knowledge ... was sewed up in the hide of an ox and , to add to the ceremony, was placed on a precipice beside a waterfall. The trembling enquirer was brought to the place where the shade and the roaring of the waters increased the dread of the occasion. The question is put, and the person in the hide delivers his answer. And so ends this species of divination styled taghairm.
Vomitory - a door of a large building by which the crowd is let out; from the Latin vomitorious.
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