Weird and Wonderful Words 5

Pertaining to the Chalybes, an ancient nation of Asia Minor

An Indian musket

A paste used by weavers when dressing their looms

To water down milk

A large eel

The down of the mugwort plant of China

A rower who had the longest oars in a trireme

Two buyers for one seller in a market place

The South African name for a rhino with 2 horns and smooth skin

The capacity to revive after a period of apparent death

The pouch of a marsupial mammal.

One who classifies plants by their fruit

A Mexican horned toad

Four cards of the same value in the game of Gleek

A small northern surlew with a white rump

A thin piece of blubber for wiping up the decks on a ship

A person who denies the soul's existance in space

Having no teeth in the gums

A lizard's tail used to cure inflammation of the breast

A chronic political party critic

Brain disorder caused by a lack of sex life

A foul smelling polecat whose fur is used for making paintbrushes

A very poor, untalented actor

One method of preventing chimneys from smoking

A period of play in a polo game, usually about 7.5 minutes

Compound derived from the juice of walnut shells

A bird native to Mexico and South America, named for its cry

A little tube in a mollusk

An explosive mixture

Suger in the milk of the Egyptian buffalo

A fabled monster with 8 legs

Pertaining to a turkey

A horse's muscle which in wasting away from lack of use

An extinct wild ox

A begrading name the Boers called a British soldier because his neck was red from the sun

Under full sail

Pertaining to excessively long words

A thick felt carpet originally made for the dirt floors of Persian tents

Prone to break wind or gas

Forever filthy

A bat with hairy cheeks

A red-bellied English lake trout

The first stomach of a cow

A soothing medical bandage

Shaped like an arrow

Buck-toothed

Pertaining to the thrush family of birds

A printer's mark with the date and place of publication found at the end of a book

Carbon flakes found on bars of pig-iron

Cheap imitation velvet

Filled with fury

Fossilized bird

An Australian bird whose cry sounds like 'more pork'

To snicker mockingly

Shaped like a cup

The white twisted cord in an egg which holds the yolk in place

Porcelain made in Belleek, Ireland

Cry used to incite the hounds in a fox hunt

A ruffled frill on the front of a shirt

A rock wren whose cry resembles the yelping of a puppy

A bird which has been alive for one year

A cow's fourth stomach

A nautical term describing an anchor with both ends turned up

An instrument to guide the hands when learning to play the piano

Relating to a fabled giant with 100 hands

The checkerboard used in the Japanese game of gobang

Lacking either a thumb or a hind toe

A low clump of trees

A little bagpipe

An Australian gold field scavanger

A speedy East Indian boat

Sausages stuffed with oatmeal

Dialogue alternating between prose and poetry in ancient Greek dramas

A plant with huge smelly flowers and no leaves, named for Sir T.S. Raffles

To violate or ravish

A family of butterflies

The past participle of 'burst'

Churchwomen who live platonically with celibate churchmen

A defense made of large wooden, overlapping shields

A North American shrub