User:Spearwielder/uncommon
From Tolkien Gateway
- counsel - advice, advise
- cracker - firecracker
- dryad - tree-nymph, in Greek mythology
- fief - landed estate owned by a lord or monarch and held by inheritance by a lower lord in return for service to the owner
- flag-lily - an iris with showy flowers
- flet - floor, ground; house. (Both meanings are in Beowulf, and this word is the origin of "flat" meaning "apartment", according to the Oxford English Dictionary.)
- garn - "Go on!" used sarcastically, "Go on talking to show how wrong you are." In most English accents the "r" isn't pronounced.
- herb - leaves, possibly with stems, eaten or used for medicine or fragrance, so Tom Bombadil's "green herbs" are probably a salad or vegetable, unlike the herbs that Sam Gamgee uses to flavor his stewed rabbit.
- ilex - Latin for the holm oak, an evergreen oak of Mediterranean Europe with holly-like leaves. Ilex is also the scientific name of the hollies.
- kine - cattle
laburnum?
- liege - a superior or inferior bonded by sworn loyalty in the feudal system, liege lord lord whom one has sworn to obey
- nasturtian - variant of "nasturtium", a trailing or vining South American plant grown for its colorful flowers. Tolkien explains his preference for this spelling in Letter 148.
- squib - small firework that burns and then explodes
- vambrace - piece of armor covering the forearm
- weskit - lower-class pronunciation of "waistcoat", a garment known in America as a vest
- worm - includes any snake-like or lizard-like creature, even a dragon
