[grey_whiskers]

Don't feel too bad. It was considered archaic in 1847.

Hi Oztrich. What is your basis for this statement? Can you back it up?

Full Disclosure: If most of the people on this thread do not know what a word means, they probably have no good way to verify whether it was considered obscure some 160 or so years ago, either.

Cheers!

[Oztrich Boy]

It was considered archaic in 1847. Hi Oztrich. What is your basis for this statement? Can you back it up?

I took it from Dictionary of Archaic Words complied by James Orchard Halliwell, introduction dated Feb 1st, 1847