• tonsure
    verb
    to shave the hair on top of a monk's head.
  • mendicant
    noun
    a beggar.
  • harridan
    noun
    a strict, bossy old woman.
  • charnel
    adj
    associated with death.
  • serried
    adj
    standing close together.
  • doff
    verb
    to take off one's hat as a greeting and show of respect.
  • tessellate
    verb
    to decorate or cover with a pattern of repeated shapes.
  • gravid
    adj
    full of meaning or a specified quality.
  • gobbet
    noun
    a piece or lump of flesh.
  • paroxysm
    noun
    a sudden attack/expression of a particular emotion.
  • ponass
    verb
    to cook fish over a fire with minimal equipment; usually trout.
  • gelid
    adj
    extremely cold.
  • caparison
    noun
    an ornamental covering on a horse's saddle or harness.
  • ensorcell
    verb
    to enchant or fascinate.
  • quintain
    noun
    a post set up as a mark in tilting with a lance.
  • pennon
    noun
    a long, triangular streamer attached to the head of a lance.
  • bier
    noun
    a movable frame that a coffin or corpse is placed upon prior to a burial or cremation.
  • alembic
    noun
    a distilling apparatus.
  • merlon
    noun
    the solid part of an embattled parapet between two embrasures.
  • limpets
    noun
    a group of aquatic snails with a conical shell and a strong, muscular foot.