An Icre of Scized Sardels

[Recycled from 07:18, 17 March 2005 and from 10 October 2005, and from 21 March 2009, with new links added on 28 February 2010]

When I have the time, I like to haul The Oxford Dictionary of the English Language up here to the lookout tower and pore over its pages. It's a truly monumental work, its twenty volumes containing some three-quarter of a million words. However, it does not accept just any word. From time to time, some dictionaries have included words based on handwriting errors, incorrect interpretation of a foreign phrase or other misunderstandings. These rejected words are listed in an appendix, from which this partial list was extracted:
Dog-ray: A type of sea life
Compearer: A person not a party to a lawsuit who wishes to oppose the suit, and is approved by the judge to take part.
Exidemic: Synonym for epidemic (but doesn’t it sound like it might mean something beyond a mere epidemic?
Galverly: Energetically.
Goffish: Silly.
Gosting: The rose madder herb [John's suggested alternate definition: a color like unto rose madder].
Graduction: Marking with graduations.
Grout: Wild apple.
Guay: An unbridled horse.
Habenry: Some sort of decoration of the roof or eaves of a house.
Herebote: A military messenger.
Icre: A group of ten [John's observation: potentially a very useful word].
Investive: Enclosing.
Minutal: Diminutive.
Momblishness: Mumbling.
Munity: Freedom.
Phantomnation: An immaterial apparition.
Quadrune: A type of sandstone.
Sardel: A precious stone, apparently salmon-colored [John's suggested definition: a color close to salmon, somewhere between orange and pink].
Scize: To cut or penetrate.
Tendsome: Requiring much attention.
At the end of the appendix was a further list of rejected words with no definitions or explanations appended, including: abacot, cluttish, cone and key, congrument, cookmate, counterset, eposculation, lastery, papescent, segnotic, tip-cheese and topinch.
Naturally, I responded to this list of words which do not exist with a hearty, “Oh, yeah?”
I was instantly fascinated by the idea of rejected words, and resolved to start using them whenever a convenient opportunity arises, and I invite my readers to do the same.
If we all start using words like “gosting” and “munity”, just once in awhile, soon they’ll be getting hits on Google, being included in dictionaries, and will have been brought to life and legitimacy at last.

//The Magic 8-Ball says, "You can do this, if you have nothing better to do."\\