| claver | (Scot.) idle chatter. | |
| scaife | an iron wheel charged with diamond dust, used for grinding and polishing gems. | |
| scurf | minute exfoliated flakes of skin. | |
| swarf | particulate matter formed by the operation of a machine tool. | |
| humble pie | [/an umble pie/, erroneous for /a numble pie/]. | |
| exuviae | animals' molted body-coverings: skins, shells, or the like. | |
| numbles | (archaic) "certain of the inward parts of an animal, esp. of a deer, used as food." | |
| fitcher | (of a drill-bit's flutes) to become clogged with ejecta. | |
| purtenance | (arch.) an animal's heart, liver, and lungs. | |
| muscae volitantes | threads and specks seen before the eyes. [L, flying flies.] | |
| crock | soot or smut; dye which rubs off of poorly dyed cloth. | |
| chimaera | "a fish of the family /Chimeridae/, the male of which has a spiny clasping organ over the mouth." |