or something of the sort. many jotted down from books like caleb’s crossing

links

• tolkien’s old words
• not archaic, but old english terms
• i stumbled upon this by searching fancy keywords and man it’s pretty cool
  • specifically: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

basic words

• bespoke
• misliked
• curtly
• rightly (“i do not rightly know”)
• aught
• countenance (composure?)
• “easy grace”
• beckoned
• ardent
• fervent
• “not a stone’s throw away”
• sorely (troubled)
• withal
• dinner & supper (lunch & dinner)
• to break one’s fast (have breakfast)
• counsel (advice)
• unbidden (“my hand flew unbidden to...”)
• beset (attack, but could be figurative: “a condition had beset me...”)
• “stilted” conversation
• footfalls (footsteps)
• flout (authority)
• clandestine (secret)
• abet
• “silken poesy”
• “kindle the cook fire”
• morning bever
• draw (water)
• mingled
• tang (smell/taste)
• tankards (food/drink containers?)
• doughtrough
• to smelt off the dross
• frugal, sparse, paltry
• fare (noun — the condition of something?)
• scrive (write)
• drowse
• yester eve
• academe
• descry (“make out,” like to see)
• fumble
• stone cairn
• akindle (of someone’s eyes)
• beeves
• raucous
• quaking (shaking)
• knees buckled…
• cadence
• counterpane (bedspread)
• glut(ted) (satisfy/fulfill, in excess)
• farce
• latrine (building) (of an outhouse)
• armillary sphere
• incur
• dearth (scarcity (of something..))
• autumnal (of age; on the older side)
• aspect (presentation, face?)
• serf/serving-men
• tankard (bottle? that likely holds ale)
• lattice-windows
• pewter
• draught (“of ale”) (the past noun form of “to draw”??)
• deportment (mannerisms)
• askance (“with a look askance at...”)

sentence structure

• “i meant to…”
• “(something.) so he had said…”
• i learned to (something) so as to (do something)… (so i could)
• to know/read/speak of
• (something) of late (w/out “as”)
• made a (noun verb, e.g. “snort”)
• it was well that.. (it was good that)
• mean to (would like to)
• as is one’s wont (as is one’s usual? “thing”?)
• looked about (around)
• to make a... (e.g. “slight bow,” like bowing)
• he “let that prospect play upon my head for a moment” (referring to a ‘dramatic pause’ in speech)
• to gather oneself
• “i set this down to…” (i determined that this was because…)
• “poled our craft” (poled, rowed, our boat)
• thence
• “felt a hot twist in his chest, fought it”
• (said with) a countenance (of sorrow)
• “…falls through a gap in worlds as into a mouth” (not sure how to describe this structure; “as” is used to add a simile/phrase in an interesting way?)
• “yea, forsooth”
• fain (“i would fain be...”, as in, i would like to)

descriptive

• gloaming
• girdle
• bracken
• thicket
• heath
• solicitous
• ladel
• wanton
• leaden
• stunted
• shadbush
• bayberry
• woodsmoke
• unlace
• dousing
• gorged
• aswirl
• ablaze
• anointed
• sassafras
• seared
• succulent
• lean season
• heaving waves…
• telltale
• stippled
• briar
• pretense
• falsehood
• indolent (e9? jk)
• tract
• vexed
• sinews
• dwelling (for house)
• placket/undershift
• swaybacked
• regalia
• slantwise
• scotch
• endow
• sennight (a week)
• haunts (places one commonly visits)
• groves
• weir
• doughtrough
• spindle
• larder
• healthful
• pronouncement
• winnowing (verb)
• vigil
• fellowship
• idolatrous
• wan (desc. appearance)
• wainscot
• poultice
• mustard seed
  • willow bark
  • comfrey
  • peppermint
• parched (corn)
• paraphernalia
• supine
• riven
• lancet
• harlot
• chaff
• shakedown
• nowt
• briny (brine)
• russet
• aplenty
• wastrel
• rivulet
• shorn (sheared…?)
• doublet
• marred
• princeling
• flay (to the bone..)
• onerous
• sunup
• coverlet
• “flame-lapped sky”
• filament
• beaten silver
• lacework
• buttery (sunlight)
• “the salt spray winged high on either side”
• spume
• desultory
• thrumming (ocean)
• serge (clothing?)
• billowing
• linen
• privily
• assent (agree…)
• palisade
• “hint of lips…”
• snare
• gorge (throat)
• bilious
• treacle pudding
• bronzed
• failing light
• hallowed
• cresset
• rushlight
• hand-hewn (desk)
• refectory
• pallet
• (morning) bever
• pewter
• peremptory
• mottled (pink, cheeks)
• sumptuary
• laudatory
• stipend
• sennight (oops repeat)
• worsted
• homespun
• sinewy (strength)
• wintergreen
• threadbare
• imperious (of a person)
• draught (serving of a drink)
• chouser(’s pieces) (deceiving price)
• awl
• corporeal
• tutelage
• austere
• perfunctory
• ousted
• mire
• ergot
• sodden
• hidels (hiding places)
• clangor
• fraught (relations)
• verdant (wood)
• watery light
• wisk (clothing)
• cudgels
• sundry
• stringent
• scullery
• scions
• beeswax
  • sage
  • rosemary
• cornmeal
  • molasses
  • milk
  • in a pudding…
• wooden trenchers
• pewter
• slipware (mugs)
• tallow dip (fire?)
• velvet
• gibbet (uncomfortable thing?)
• riffle (verb, of wind)
• bursary
• a morning “wreathed in mists”
• roseate
• nobbly (root)
• tonsured
• (flower)-bedecked
• roiling (ocean, emotion)
• windswept
• lucre
• brimming pools (of eyes)
• riven (rock)
• inflame
• begloom (the day)
• set ablaze… (the night)
• laudanum
• sorrel
• earthenware
• sable
• caprice
• scourge
• mountebank
• contagion
• dell (a small valley, usually within trees)