Glossary Flashcards
Apothecary
One that prepares and sells drugs or medicine
Apocryphal
Of questionable authorship or authenticity
Baize
A cotton or woollen material used mainly to cover gaming tables
Balderdash
Nonsense
Blazoned
To adorn or embellish (e.g. Coat of arms)
Cabinet
A small or private room set aside for a particular activity
Carbuncles
A red garnet, unfaceted and convex
Cheval glass
A long mirror on swivels in a frame
Coquetry
Flirtation
Cupola
A vaulted ceiling
Damon and Pythias
Greek myth, when Pythias was sentenced to death Damon took his place to allow him to get his affairs in order. When Pythias returned
, the king was so impressed he let them both go
Diaphanous
Such fine texture that it is transparent or translucent; delicate
Ebullition
Boiling
Eddy
A current of water or air (usually circular motion)
Exorbitant
Exceeding all bounds, as of custom of fairness
Hansom
A 2 wheeled carriage with the drivers seat above and behind
Imperious
Arrogantly domineering
Incredulous
Skeptical
Infallibility
Incapable of being wrong
Maladies
A disease/ailment
Malefactor
One that has committed a crime
Mottled
To mark with spots of colour
Multifarious
Having great variety
Pall
A covering that obscures
Penitence
Regret of wrongdoing
Phial
Vial
Premonitory
Foreboding
Sawbones
A surgeon
Stringent
Severe
Tabernacle
A place of worship
Tincture
A pigment
Troglodytic
Brutish ,unevolved, monstrous ,cave-dwelling
Undemonstrative
Reserved
Vainglorious
Boastful
