Lexicon

v. (past shrove; past participle shriven)

1. [with object] archaic (of a priest) hear the confession of, assign penance to, and absolve (someone): none of her chaplains knew English or French enough to shrive the king.
2. (shrive oneself) present oneself to a priest for confession, penance, and absolution.

[Driving Meditation — Tara Shepersky]

n.

1. (Britain) A small opening built into a dry-stone wall to allow sheep (and hares) to pass through
2. (humorous, chiefly Greater Boston) A unit of length defined as exactly sixty-seven inches (approximately 1.70 meters), based upon the height of Oliver R. Smoot, who lay on the Harvard Bridge to measure it as an MIT fraternity prank

[Wiktionary, while looking up thirl]

adj.

1. affected with spavin
2. old and decrepit

spavin (noun)

1. swelling, esp. a bony enlargement of the hock of a horse associated with strain

[Attrib. — Eley Williams]

adj.

1. Of breathing, noisy or labored.

[The Waves — Virginia Woolf]

v.

(present participle thirling, simple past and past participle thirled)

1. To pierce, perforate, penetrate
2. (obsolete) To drill or bore

n.

1. (archaic or dialectical) A hole, aperture, especially a nostril
2. (dialectal) A low door in a dry-stone wall to allow sheep to pass through; a smoot

[The Daughter of Time — Josephine Tey]

noun

1. an alarm bell or signal.

[Summer Lightning — P.G. Wodehouse]

verb

to dry or roast with fire : PARCH, SCORCH

1. to subject (ores) to scorching heat so as to drive off volatile ingredients
2. to dry (drugs) on a hot metallic plate till they are friable or are reduced to the state desired

[Discovered accidentally while trying to find a good synonym for “charred”]

n. 

1. a portion of something, especially money

[NPR]