CLAPPERDUDGEON
n. -- a derogatory term for one who is born a beggar; also used as a term of reproach or insult.

DOGSTONES
n. -- a name for various species of Orchis (a flower, so named for the shape of the tubers).

PILLION
n. -- 1. A seat behind the ordinary saddle of a motorcycle, on which a second person may ride.

PERIGYNIUM
n. -- a membranous sac, investing the ovaries of certain leafy mosses.

TRANSEPTAL
adj. -- of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a transept. A transept is a hedge, fence or enclosure.

QUOIN
n. -- 1. An external angle of a wall or building; also, one of the stones or bricks serving to form the angle; a cornerstone. 2. A wedge, or wedge-shaped block, used for special purposes, such as, a short wedge used to lock up a form in the printing process.
v. -- to secure or raise with a quoin or wedge.

VOGIE
adj. -- 1. Vain, proud, conceited. 2. Merry, cheerful, delighted, gay.

RUNRIGGED
adj. -- Land held or characterized by the runrig form of land-tenure. So what's runrig? A form of land-tenure in which separate ridges are cultivated by different occupiers under joint agreement.

SQUAMY
adj. -- covered in scales, scaly.

VOLKSRAAD
n. -- the chief legislative assembly in either of the former South African republics of the Transvall or the Orange Free State.

SUSU
n. -- the Gangetic dolphin.

UTINAM
n. -- an earnast wish or fervent desire.

SPELTER
n. -- 1. zinc. 2. an alloy or solder of which zinc is the principal component.

PREVENIENT
adj. -- antecedent to human action, coming before.

CALCITRATION
n. -- The act of kicking repeatedly in earnest., either literally or figuratively.

DERAIGN
v. -- To prove, justify, vindicate.

SPARTACIST
n. -- A member of a party of German socialist extremists in the revolution of 1918, led by Karl Liebknecht, who had adopted the pseudonym "Spartakus" in his political tracts. (Spartacus, a Thracian, was was the leader in the Servile War against Rome.)

WHIRLWATER
n. -- A waterspout.

MAMZER
n. -- A bastard. (Heb. word adopted by the Vulgate in Deut.)

VOICEMAIL DEFINITION
"When you can't tell the gender of the person leaving a voice message."

COQUETTA
n. Name of a non-officinal bark obtainted from Cinchona lancifolia.

DIPLOHEDRON
n. A crystalline form contained by twenty-four trapezoidal planes with two sides equal; a dyakis-dodecahedron.

STORIATION
n. 1. One who, or a thing which, stores or keeps in store. 2. Something kept to produce a store or stock.

SESQUITERTIANAL
adj. Expressing a ratio of 4:3.
[That's video/monitor proportions, before DVD, anyway.]

MOTHERCRAFT
n. The "craft" or business of a mother; a mother's duties in the family.

VOICEMAIL DEFINITION
"Mothercraft -- it's not just a job; it's an adventure. That's ME!"

CRYOPHYLLITE
n. A species of mica found in granite at Cape Ann, Massachusetts.

ONSITE
n/adj. The activity of working for somebody on their turf, on their time, on their deadline.
[That's the REAL meaning, not the book meaning].

PROGMAN
n. A man appointed to forage for victuals, etc.; a forager, purveyor.

WRYING
n. 1. The action of twisting, wringing or writhing; an instance of this. 2. The action of wresting or perverting. 3. The action of deviating or turning from a course, etc.; straying.

SERAGLIO
n. 1. The part of a noble Mohammedan dwelling-house in which the women are secluded; the apartments reserved for wives and concubines; a harem. 2. An enclosure; a place of confinement. 3. A Turkish palace, esp. the palace of the Sultan at Constantinople...
[There are 8 more definitions for this word, including a definition meaning "military barracks".]

TAMPONMENT
n. A plug designed specifically for a bodily wound, esp. when used after injuries sustained during battle.

VOICEMAIL DEFINITIONS
I'm NOT going to post these. Urk.

PELLAMOUNTAIN
n. Another name for Wild Thyme.

VOICEMAIL DEFINITION
"Pellamountain: I used to go there all the time to see the Dead. It's right near Saratoga. Yeah."

MAUNDY
n. -- 1. The Anglican ceremony of washing the feet of a number of poor people, performed by royal or other eminent persons, or ecclesiastics, on the Thursday before Easter and commonly followed by the distribution of clothing, food or money. In England, the distribution of "maundy money" is all that remains of this ceremony. 2. The dole made at the ceremony. 3. The last supper. 4. A feast .

VOICEMAIL DEFINITION
"Maundy is how the web man pronounces Monday."

EXOMOLOGESIS
n. -- A full confession, a public confession.

GULLING
n. -- The action of gull (v.), to cheat or deceive.

SLIMSKIN
n. -- A sea elephant in an emaciated state.

VEXILLATION
n. -- A company of veteran soldiers or of soldiers grouped under one standard.

VOICEMAIL DEFINITION
"Vexillation is a massage technique. I've performed vexillation on many a male client."

RUDENT
n. -- A projecture in the form of a cable or cane, used in detailing a column.

TANAGRINE
adj. -- Of or pertaining to tanagers, the bird genus Tanagra of passerine birds, of Central and South America.

MAKE-A-DO
n. -- 1. A 'to-do', uproar, stir. 2. One who is fond of making a to-do. [That's me.]

VOICEMAIL DEFINITION
"What a dog does."

MANTINIMENT
adj. -- Maintenance.

VOICEMAIL DEFINITION
"Mantiniment -- a breath freshener used by a great white shark after munching on a Jacques Cousteau type of individual."

LAUNCHANT
adj. -- Darting, leaping.

GUBBINS
n. -- Fragments, especially of fish; fish-pairings.

CRAMBLE
n. -- Boughs or branches of crooked and angular growth, used for rustic work or firewood.

ENAMORATE
v. -- To inspire with love.

VOICEMAIL DEFINITION
"I am enamorated of you." (not really a definition, but why not?)

VALETUDINARY
adj. -- 1. Not in robust or rigorous health; more or less weakly, infirm, or delicate; invalid. 2. Of conditions, etc.; characterized by weak or feeble health.

SWINGEBREECH
n. -- One who struts or flaunts about.

SIDEROSTATIC
adj. -- Of or pertaining to a device (siderostat) by which a star under observation may kept within the same part of the field of a telescope.

VOICEMAIL DEFINITION
"It has to do with astrology -- something to do with how the planets are aligned in their aspects and when they get too close they set off an electrical charge."

DANDLE
v. -- 1. To move (a child, etc.) lightly up and down in the arms or on the knee. 2. To make much of, to pet, fondle, pamper. 3. To trifle, play, or toy with.

CICATRIX
n. -- 1. The scar or seam remaining after a wound, sore, or ulcer is healed (pathology). 2. The scar left by the fall of a leaf, frond, etc. (botany). 3. The glossy impression on the inside of valves to which the muscles of the animal have been attached (conch). 4. The truncated apex of the basal joint of the antennae of some Longicorn Coleoptera (entomology).

VERDERER
n. -- 1. A judicial officer of the King's forest...sworn to maintain and keep the assets of the forest, and also to view, receive, and enroll the attachments and presentments of all manner of trespasses of the forest, of vert and venison. 2. A petty constable have supervision of a city ward.

VOICEMAIL DEFINITION
"Verderer: I have to say kind of a vertigo kind of messed up feeling in general. Just kind of screwed up. Kind of how I feel today."

SCRAG
n. -- 1. A lean person or animal (used as a perjorative). 2. The lean and inferior end of a neck of mutton. 3. The neck (of a sheep). 4. The neck (of a human being).

VOICEMAIL DEFINITION
"Scrag: what you call an old girlfriend -- combination of scum****er and hag."

QUATREBLE
adj. and n. -- 1. variation of "quadruple", to increase fourfold. 2. a musical note higher than the treble, being an octave above the mean.

QUERCITRON
n. -- 1. the black or dyer's oak of N. America. 2. The inner bark of this, used as a yellow dye and in tanning.

VOICEMAIL DEFINITIONS
"A quercitron is what they blew up at the Trinity Site ."
"A quercitron is a machine for building 'querces'.""What a dog does."