beau (n.)
suitor
beauteous (adj.)
beautiful
billet-doux (n.)
a love letter
bodkin (n.)
a large needle
casuistry (n.)
books of seemingly solid but false reasoning
chagrin (n.)
disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure
clod (n.)
earth
coquette (n.)
a woman who endeavors without sincere affection to gain the attention and admiration of men; flirt
costive (adj.)
constipated
denizen (n.)
inhabitant
disport (v.)
1. to divert, amuse; 2. to display
equipage (n.)
1. a horse-drawn carriage with its servants; 2. retinue (archaic)
ethereal (adj.)
celestial, heavenly, unworldly, spiritual
expatiate (v.)
range; expound
forfex (n.)
scissors
gilt (adj.)
covered with gold or gilt
glebe (n.)
farmland
hoary (adj.)
gray or white with age
impertinence (n.)
1. the quality or state of not being restrained within the bounds of propriety or good taste; 2. characterized by insolent rudeness
lampoon (n.)
a harsh satire usually directed against an individual
latent (adj.)
hidden
malignant (adj.)
1. malcontent, disaffected; 2. evil in nature, influence, or effort; injurious
mead (n.)
meadow
mien (n.)
appearance
pinion (n.)
quill
pipkin (n.)
an earthen pot; it walks like the three-legged stools that Hephaestus made for the gods in The Iliad
pomatum (n.)
scented, apple-based ointments applied to the face and hair
propitious (adj.)
favorably disposed, benevolent
pyre (n.)
a combustible heap used for burning ceremonial objects as a part of a spiritual rite
rapine (n.)
pillage, plunder
recruits (n.)
supplies
rend (v.)
1. to split or tear apart by violence; 2. to pierce with sound
repair (v.)
assemble
riband (n.)
a ribbon used especially as a decoration
sacrilegious (n.)
gross irreverence toward a hallowed person, place, or thing
seraph (n.)
high-ranking angel
snuff (n.)
pulverized tobacco to be inhaled through the nose or chewed
spleenwort (n.)
a kind of fern, purgative of spleen
springe (n.)
snare
strategem (n.)
an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy
swarthy (adj.)
of a dark color, complexion, or cast
termagant (n.)
an overbearing or nagging woman; shrew
timorous (adj.)
1. of a timid disposition; 2. expressing or suggesting timidity
tincture (n.)
color, tint
toilet (n.)
the act or process of dressing and grooming oneself
transient (adj.)
passing especially quickly into and out of existence
twain (adj.)
two
verdant (adj.)
green
virago (n.)
a woman of great stature, strength, and courage
vouchsafe (v.)
to grant as a privilege or special favor
