scroop
n. the rustle of silk

sanguisugent
adj. bloodsucking

apricity
n. the warmth of the sun in winter

“A strange and lovely word.” — Ammon Shea, Reading the OED, 2009

opsigamy
n. marriage at an advanced age

benedick
n. a newly married man

shunamitism
n. rejuvenation of an old man by a young woman

perpilocutionist
n. one who expounds on a subject of which he has little knowledge

hypnobate
n. a sleepwalker

In Fain v. Commonwealth, 78 Ky. 183, the defendant, a somnambulist, had gone to sleep in a public room in a hotel, and on being roughly awakened by a stranger, drew a pistol and killed him, imagining himself in danger. The court observed: ‘If the prisoner is and has been afflicted in the manner claimed and knew, as he no doubt did, his propensity to do acts of violence when aroused from sleep, he was guilty of a grave breach of social duty in going to sleep in the public room of a hotel with a deadly weapon on his person, and merits for that reckless disregard of the safety of others some degree of punishment, but we know of no law under which he can be punished. Our law only punishes for overt acts done by responsible moral agents. If the prisoner was unconscious when he killed the deceased, he cannot be punished for that act, and as the mere fact that he had the weapon on his person and went to sleep with it there did no injury to any one, he cannot be punished for that.’ Now, is a man who knows himself liable to violent attacks of insanity guilty of ‘a grave breach of social duty’ in not incarcerating himself in an insane asylum?

— Albany Law Journal, July 8, 1882

glabella
n. the space between the eyebrows

cejijunto
n. a person with one long continuous eyebrow

nemophilist
n. one who is fond of the forest

chiminage
n. a toll for passage through a forest

misocapnist
n. one who hates the smell of tobacco smoke

sectile
adj. capable of being cut easily with a knife