WAPPING
(c) Copulation. The participle of the verb to wap, slang for to copulate. 1612: “And wapping Dell, that niggles well,/ And takes loure for her hire.”
BOANERGES
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(b) A loud vociferous preacher or orator. Probably the Greek version of the Aramaic and Hebrew, explained as “the sons of thunder”, the name given by Christ to the two sons of Zebedee. 1869: “Loud laughed the listening surges./ You might call them Boanerges/ From the thunder of their wave.”
SOBRANYE
(a) The parliament or national assembly of Bulgaria. An adaptation of the Bulgarian and Russian. 1923: “In spite, however, of his declaring the elections invalid, the Grand Sobranye met and occupied itself with the difficult task of finding a prince willing to accept the thorny crown which Prince Alexander had laid down.”
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AUSTER
(c) The south wind. Hence the south. Cf. The Latin urere, ustum, to burn. 1762: “Auster’s resistless force all air invades.”