I finished The Anatomy on Oct 30 and discovered (with both interest and annoyance) that all the obscure words I'd had to Google were glossed at the back.

Here is a small sampling of Burton's more interesting abstrusities, put case anyone has an interest:

Quote:
calaminstrate: to curl the hair with tongs

circumforanean: strolling from market to market

cornute: to cuckold

dummerer: a feigner of dumbness

goosecap: a silly person

lusorious: appertaining to games

mard: a lump of excremental matter

obnubilate: obscure; cloud

otacousticon: an ear trumpet

pickitivant: a pointed beard

pittivanted: wearing a pointed beard

salvatella: the vein that runs into the little finger

terriculaments: terrors

vastity: desolation

wreeks: pranks

wittol: a man who is aware and tolerant of his wife's infidelity; an acquiescent
cuckold.

pickthank: a flatterer