reptiles — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the dinosaurs.
residua — the residue, remainder, or rest of something.
knaves — an unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest person.
curs — a mongrel dog, especially a worthless or unfriendly one.
rears — the back of something, as distinguished from the front: The porch is at the rear of the house.
remnants — a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
worms — Zoology. any of numerous long, slender, soft-bodied, legless, bilaterally symmetrical invertebrates, including the flatworms, roundworms, acanthocephalans, nemerteans, gordiaceans, and annelids.
