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Interesting words appearing in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). Some are interesting for their unfamiliarity, and some for the meanings then assigned by Johnson.
circumforaneous  ·  conjobble  ·  covine  ·  cozenage  ·  creephole  ·  decumbence  ·  deosculation  ·  desidiose  ·  deterration  ·  detrude  ·  discalceate  ·  discase  ·  disparage  ·  doit  ·  dormitory  ·  embolism  ·  empasm  ·  engrosser  ·  enodate  ·  estuation  ·  evagation  ·  evanid  ·  exuactorate  ·  fangle  ·  fart  ·  feastrite  ·  fescue  ·  filch  ·  fondling  ·  fribbler  ·  fritinancy  ·  gleek  ·  gobbet  ·  higgler  ·  kissingcrust  ·  knuckle  ·  lasslorn  ·  lifestring  ·  liplabour  ·  loricate  ·  macaroon  ·  mome  ·  monteth  ·  morkin  ·  muchwhat  ·  nictate  ·  oberrate  ·  occise  ·  olitory  ·  oscitancy  ·  parbreak  ·  periergy  ·  pledget  ·  potvaliant  ·  prill  ·  puddingtime  ·  purfle  ·  quacksalver  ·  quob  ·  ronion  ·  roscid  ·  salework  ·  scarefire  ·  sciomachy  ·  scrat  ·  shapesmith  ·  shend  ·  slubberdegullion  ·  smaragdine  ·  smeeth  ·  snowbroth  ·  sooterkin  ·  sperable  ·  spraints  ·  stingo  ·  stirious  ·  sublapsary  ·  sudorifick  ·  surbate  ·  surd  ·  susurration  ·  symposiack  ·  tabid  ·  tatterdemalion  ·  testudineous  ·  tharm  ·  thrapple  ·  thrasonical  ·  titubate  ·  turnsick  ·  vade  ·  vaticide  ·  viduity  ·  waltron  ·  waped  ·  welkin  ·  wittol  ·  yare  ·  zetetic  ·  zocle  ·