arsinoitherium - an extinct genus of mammals, related to elephants, sirenians and hyraxes, superficially resembling a two horned rhinoceros
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. A varied group of forces aligns to hold the line of battle, and Severian notes the impressive Daughters of War amongst the all-male light cavalry.
estafette - a dispatch rider, primarily military; a mounted courier. From the diminutive of "staffa," meaning "stirrup," in Italian.
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian hears a rider approach as he is cutting meat from a fallen mount.
ile - a squadron of cavalry in Macedonian King Phillip II's armies, consisting of 200 men
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian considers the purposeful movement of approaching footsteps.
heptarch - a ruler of one of seven allied states
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian participates in a ritual of the highest of seven orders.
dyad - something that consists of two elements or parts
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autiarch. A strange entity asks if the Autarch was a man, half a mother and father.
jezail - a simple and often hand made rifle used in South Asia and parts of the Middle East during the 19th century
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian meets a group, strangely dressed soldiers with large eyes and hollow cheeks, carrying rifles taller than them.
declivity - a downward slope
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian struggles to reach a mysterious house perched atop a cliff.
culverin - a kind of handgun of the 15th and 16th centuries. Also, a cannon with a long barrel in the 16th and 17th centuries
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian descends into a canyon, where the rushing water drowns out the sounds of warfare above.
aes - any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in Ancient Rome
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. The Pelerine slave Winnoc tells of how he sold himself to the Order, bringing his payment to his mother before departing on their ship.
pharmacon - a medicine
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian meets a man at the front wearing a phial around his throat.
orphicleide - a family of conical-bore keyed brass instruments invented in early 19th-century France, it's name meaning "keyed serpent" in Greek
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian hears a deep, long note as heavy cavalry approaches.
clerestory - the upper part of the nave, choir and transepts of a large church, containing a series of windows. It is clear of the roofs of the aisles and admits light to the central parts of the building.
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian writes of his travels from a secluded loft.
nacker - a person hired to remove livestock or animals that have died of old age or other causes
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Dead beasts fallen in the Bear Tower's private fights are piled outside the guild's door.
cincture - a girdle or belt
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian binds a prisoner's hands with the rope of his robe.
narthex - an antechamber, porch, or distinct area at the western entrance of some early Christian churches, separated off by a railing
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian undertakes a task on behalf of the Pelegrines.
sutler - a person who follows an army and sells them provisions
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian comes to the front of the war.
marge - a margin or edge
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch, book four of The Book of the New Sun. A young man rides towards the sea, reaching it after many days' ride.
baluchither - a hornless rhinorotoid of the extinct genus Paraceratherium. One of the largest terrestrial mammals to have ever existed, standing nearly five meters tall.
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Claw of the Conciliator, book two of the Book of the New Sun series. Severian and Jonas are kidnapped and taken on the back of a great beast into the forest.
Finished #GideonTheNinth yesterday. Really loved it. Reading #BookOfTheNewSun really got me more interested in reading more fantasy again.
lazaret - a small compartment below the deck in the after end of a vessel, used for stores
#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian recuperates in a room converted to a makeshift hospital ward as the war rages nearby.
