Yes, let us once again take a trip through rosy fields of wordly trees.
- Ambergrised – (uncertain)
- Argence – silveryness?
- Apothegm – pithy instructive saying, maxim
- Benison – blessing, benediction
- Catafalque – funeral canopy
- Chancrous – having an ulcer
- Chrism – consecrated ointment
- Crepitation – crackling
- Etiolated – blanched, withered
- Formication – feeling of ants on skin
- Fructified – made fruitful, productive
- Gavotte – old French dance
- Knurling – small projection, knob
- Incarnadine – dyed red
- Inchoate – partial, just begun
- Innominate – unnamed
- Lambent – flickering, radiant
- Limned – rendered artistically
- Malison – curse, (antonym of benison)
- Mephic – (uncertain) 2
- Nacre – mother-of-pearl
- Nacreous – like mother-of-pearl
- Obbligato – persistent subordinate motif
- Palliation – mitigation, hiding
- Paucity – scarcity, insufficiency
- Preterite – in the past
- Redolent – scented, sweetly odorous
- Roynish – mangy, mean
- Sabulous – gritty, sandy
- Stertorously – snoring, noisily breathing
- Susurrus – whisper, sound of murmuring
- Telic – purposive
- Theurgy – miracle, sorcery
- Thetic – setting forth, like a thesis
- Threnody – song of lamentation, dirge
- Travertine – white calcium carbonate
Ambergrised: Ambergris is “A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale, which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212 Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery.” Make of that what you will.
Mephic: Really not certain on this one. Closest thing I could find is “mephis”, but it is more likely to mean something close to “mephitic”, which means noxious, poisonous, foul-smelling, etc.
