Old Woman's Luck

Have the wind in one's face both going and returning; Oxfordshire.

- Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905

Good Bye, An Author's Journey. It was wonderful!

Tachydidaxy

A short method of teaching.

- Joseph Worcester's Dictionary of the English Language, 1881

Giglet

A merry. light-hjearted, playful, romping girl; a giddy, silly, thoughtless girl; a wanton, a strumpet. Hence, gigleting, laughing in a foolish manner; trifling behavior.

- Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905

Giglot, a female laughing or playing wantonly.

- Walter Skeat's Specimens of English Dialects, Westmoreland, 1879

"Away with those giglets too, and with the other confederate companion."

- William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, 1604

Bulkateer

A person who judges by the bulk or size, and overlooks the real merit.

- Maurice Weseen's Dictionary of American Slang, 1934

Climacteric

By the climacteric system, seven years was declared to be the termination of childhood; fourteen the term of puberty; twenty-one of adult age; thirty-five, or five times seven, as the height of physical and bodily strength. At forty-nine the person was said to have reached the height of his mental strength or intellectual powers; at sixty-three, or nine times seven, he was said to have reached the grand climacteric.

- T. Ellwood Zell's Popular Encyclopedia of knowledge and Language, 1871