vulpeculated: past ppl. Robbed by a fox.
busk: I. intransitive verb. 1. To prepare onself, get ready. b. spec. To attire or deck oneself; to dress. c. transf. To essay, attempt. 2. To set out, go (chiefly with notion of speed); to hie, hurry, haste. 3. To busk up: to get up, rise. II. transitive verb. 4. To prepare, make, or get ready; to set in order, fit out. (Still in Scottish, sometimes with up.) 5. To dress, attire, accoutre, adorn, dress up; = ‘to dress’ in its widest sense. (Still in Scottish.) b. spec. To dress a fishing-hook. c. fig. 6. To dispatch, hurry, hasten. III. reflexive verb. 7. To prepare or equip (oneself), get ready; now esp. Scottish. to dress, clothe, or deck (oneself). 8. To betake oneself, to hie one.
Addition. Here are some more words we should be using nowadays.
crooken: v. Obs. 1.transitive. To make crooked; fig. to pervert. 2.intransitive. To be or become crooked; to bend.
crowl: v. Obs. intransitive. To rumble or make a sound in the stomach and bowels.
crump: v. Obs. 1.intransitive To draw itself into a curve, curl, curl up. 2.transitive (and reflexive) To bend (a thing) into a curve, crook, curl up. 3.fig.? To ruffle, disturb.
crispisulcant: a. rare Undulating or serpentine. [From the Latin.]
[Source: Oxford English Dictionary Online.]
1 comment:
Busk, yes. I agree.
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