Pleas enjoy this sixteenth-century seed cake recipe! Apparently any flavorful seed, such as caraway, anise, or cardamom is called for.
Hyphenated just so.
“ˈseed-cake, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/174759. Accessed 21 September 2017.
This work evokes John Masefield’s Sea Fever for me, or perhaps Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem Crossing the Bar, which I know set to a beautiful tune.
This word is not found in OED.
This word is not found in any form in OED.
Hyphenated in some examples
Clearly, it’s a JRRT word if it’s a Middle-earth word, but in the course of checking our hyphenated words, I’m carefully going to count it both ways.
I expected the older “rush-bottomed” in Beorn’s house.
“rush-bottom, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/276593. Accessed 19 September 2017.
“rush-bottomed, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/276822. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Well, well, well. This very line is one of the samples of how this word-phrase is used, so I could give it the JRRT tag, but the earlier example also has the hyphen and I think that’s where the line is drawn.
rune letter n.
1852 Gentleman’s Mag. May 475/1 One distinctive mark of Northernism is the sound th (þ, ð); another is the sound w (ƿ), both originally represented by Rune-letters unknown to the Latin alphabet.
The etymology given in OED, by the way, is really quite funny. Could be Icelandic… or Latin…
“rune, n.2.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/168900. Accessed 19 September 2017.
Such as Vikings used.
Just so in OED.
“round-bellied, adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/280294. Accessed 19 September 2017.
This sub-entry in OED can by hyphenated or not – in general use it can be used as a rock-face or as a wall build out of many individual rocks. Where I live, that’s called a stone fence.
“rock, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/166697. Accessed 19 September 2017.
words that you were saying 