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Niello :: Niello (n.) An impression on paper taken from an ancient incised decoration or metal plate.

Rep-silver :: Rep-silver (n.) Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain..

Scarabee :: Scarabee (n.) A stylized representation of a scarab beetle in stone or faience; -- a symbol of resurrection, used by the ancient Egyptians as an ornament or a talisman, and in modern times used in jewelry, usually by engraving designs on cabuchon stones. Also used attributively; as, a scarab bracelet [a bracelet containing scarabs]; a scarab [the carved stone itelf]..

Purfile :: Purfile (n.) A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; -- called also bobbinwork.

Moile :: Moile (n.) A kind of high shoe anciently worn.

Electrum :: Electrum (n.) An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients..

Helvetic :: Helvetic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states..

Canto :: Canto (n.) The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano..

Grotesgue :: Grotesgue (a.) Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike; wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic.

Reredos :: Reredos (n.) The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls..

Pelasgic :: Pelasgic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians, an ancient people of Greece, of roving habits..

Score :: Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.

Penates :: Penates (n. pl.) The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar.

Knight Bachelor :: Knight bachelor () A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4..

Northman :: Northman (n.) One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman..

Borough-english :: Borough-English (n.) A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother..

Bohemian :: Bohemian (a.) Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2..

Peribolos :: Peribolos (n.) In ancient architecture, an inclosed court, esp., one surrounding a temple..

Euripus :: Euripus (n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux..

Whirlbat :: Whirlbat (n.) Anything moved with a whirl, as preparatory for a blow, or to augment the force of it; -- applied by poets to the cestus of ancient boxers..

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