Here are all of the words/phrases up to 16/01/12:
hoppinjohn - black-eyed peas cooked with hog jowl, the traditional New Year's dinner in many well-to-do families who would not eat such coarse food on any other day... In Civil War days, some planters who had nothing to eat but black-eyed peas at a New Year's dinner were lucky enough to regain their fortunes, and later on the somehow connected this good luck with the New Year's hoppinjohn... It is considered very important in some districts to have black-eyed peas for dinner on New Year's Day. I have known country folk who rode a long way to get these peas for a New Year's dinner, even though they did not care particularly for black-eyed peas, and seldom ate them at any other time. ~Vance Randolph's Ozark Superstitions, 1947
ambigu - In the 18th century the word was used to describe a plentiful assemblage of hot and cold dishes. When George II and his Queen attended the wedding of their son Frederick there was a "Supper in Ambigu"... [in which] guests were offered forty-five hot dishes and fifteen cold. "Ambo" is the Latin for both, and both temperatures were certainly there to taste. Yet the great "spread" has a title which suggests uncertainty. There was much on the royal tables to invite overeating and nothing to cause intellectual confusion, unless the composition of some of the dishes was mysterious and misleading, and so menacing to those with queasy stomachs. But the title [ambigu] can hardly have been chosen as an admonition to go carefully. It sounded well; it looked imposing; it made hot and cold look distressingly plebeian. So for a while it was a vogue word and gave joy to those who had acquired it. It may return. Vogues are brief, and perhaps the restaurant which seeks modish customers by announcing its agreeable ambiance may now announces the pleasures of an ambigu. ~Ivor Brown's Ring of Words, 1967
toad-under-a-harrow - The comparative situation of a poor fellow whose wife - not satisfied with the mere henpecking of her helpmate - takes care that all the world shall witness the indignities she puts upon him. The expression is also applied to any other similar, if such there be, state of misery. ~John Brockett's Glossary of North Country Woods, 1825
crazelty - Infirm or dilapidated. It is said of a sick person or one out of sorts; a gate ready to fall is crazelty. ~Alfred Easther's Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield, 1883
Crazeling, a person affected with a craze or mania. ~ Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1893.
dashelled - Beaten about and wetted by bad weather. ~John Bactaggart's Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824
[Related to] dashel, a brush for sprinkling holy water; [1500s]. ~Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1897.
bundling - The betrothed or engaged pair went to bed, or more frequently lay together in their clothes... Even among families of good position it is tacitly recognized and tolerated, and it was at the outset the product of the clothed state, where touch had to play the part of sight in the unclothed. Bundling used to be a widely diffused Welsh custom before marriage.
gubbertushed - Having projecting teeth. ~William Whitney's Century Dictionary, 1889
good man's croft - It was customary for famers to leave a portion of their fields uncropped, which was a dedication to the evil spirit called good man's croft. The Church exerted itself for a long time to abolish this practice, but farmers... were afraid to discontinue the practice for fear of ill luck. I remember a farmer as late as 1825 always leaving a small piece of field uncropped, but then did not know why. At length he gave the right of working these bits to a poor labourer, who did well with it, and in a few years the farmer cultivated the whole himself. ~James Napier's Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland, 1879
drury - Gallantry, courtship; love, delight; from French drue, a mistress. ~Herbert Coleridge's Oldest Words in the English Language, 1863.
sennight - A period of seven (days and) nights; a week. ~Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1914.
lycanthropia - A variety of melancholy in which the person believes himself to be changed into a wolf, and imitates the voice and habits of that animal. ~Robley Dunglison's Dictionary of Medical Science, 1844
benedict - A married man. From Benedict, the husband of Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing. ~James Maitland's American Slang Dictionary, 1891
galericulate - Covered, as with a hat. ~Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.
petrified kidneys - Kidney-shaped stones formerly used to pave the footpaths, and even now to be met with in remote villages. ~G.F. Northall's Warwickshire Word-Book, 1896
Crazeling is good, too. 
