Quasimodo - the name of the hunchback in Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris.
royal - noble, splendid, first-rate
sago - a species of starch prepared from the 'pith' of the trunks of several palms and cycads, esp. Metroxylon lævis and M. Rumphii, chiefly used as an article of food.
tango - a colour shade of deep orange
umber - a brown earth used as a pigment; also, the colour of this
vanilla - a vanilla ice cream
wistaria* - a light blue-purple shade, the colour of wistaria blossom
Xray - a form of radiation discovered by Prof. W. C. Röntgen of Würzburg in 1895, capable of passing in various degrees through many substances impervious to light, and of affecting a sensitized plate and thus producing shadow-photographs of objects inclosed within opaque receptacles or bodies.
philomel - a poetic name for the nightingale
shee = she
nude - to strip, unclothe, make naked
prime - Of human life: The period or state of greatest perfection or vigour, before strength begins to decay.
complementary - short for 'complementary colour'; complementary colours - colours which, in combination, produce white or colourless light.
Angus - the name of a county in Scotland
prick - to wound (or hurt) with or as with a pointed instrument or weapon; fig. To cause sharp mental pain to; to sting with sorrow or remorse.
eagle eyed* - having an eye like an eagle; keen-sighted
look sharp - Originally (with sharp as adv.) = 'to look sharply after something', 'to keep strict watch'. In later use (which is merely colloquial) the sense is commonly 'to bestir oneself briskly', 'to lose no time'.
aster - a star (obs.); a large genus of the N.O. Compositæ, with showy radiated flowers.
wistful - expectantly or yearningly eager, watchful, or intent; mournfully expectant or longing.
Lord Major* - a title formerly limited to the mayors (see mayor) of London, York, and Dublin, but subsequently extended to the mayors of some other large towns.
clap - to talk loudly, chatter, prate; to strike so as to make a noise (obs.)
lingua - the tongue
pallet = palate
jowl - a jaw; esp. the under jaw
jolt - a jerky movement, an abrupt jerk; a surprise; a shock which disturbs one's mental composure.
tambourine - to play the tambourine (a musical instrument consisting of a wooden hoop having skin or parchment stretched over one side, and pairs of small cymbals, called jingles, placed in slots round the circumference, small bells being sometimes fastened to the edge).
slide - to pass away, pass by, so as to disappear, be forgotten or neglected, etc. Now rare.
pet - to have erotic physical contact with another person by kissing, caressing, and sexual stimulation.
pout - a protrusion of the lips, expressive of pique or annoyance
Ally Sloper - the name of a character in a series of humorous publications, having a prominent nose and receding forehead and noted for his dishonest or bungling practices.
ope = open
valse - to dance the valse or waltz; to waltz
star - to adorn with an ornament likened to a star or a number of stars; to bespangle as with stars.
solly = selly - wonderfully, marvellously, strangely
well worth - of full value. arch; worth one’s salt* - worth the money that one is paid.
pilger (gr) - pilgrim
hitch - a contrivance for fastening something, a catch; fig. An accidental or temporary stoppage, such as is caused by something suddenly getting caught or entangled; an impediment, obstruction.
cucullus (l) - hood, cowl
tutor - one employed in the supervision and instruction of a youth in a private household.
cut out - fig. To form, fashion, shape, to carve out
flo - an arrow
peep - a surreptitious, furtive, or peering glance
beetle - to fly off; to go, make one's way, move (like a beetle)
fly - a dipterous or two-winged insect, esp. of the family Muscidæ
bough - one of the larger limbs or offshoots of a tree, a main branch; but also applied to a smaller branch.
bo peep* - a nursery play with a young child, who is kept in excitement by the nurse or play-mate alternately concealing herself (or her face), and peeping out for a moment at an unexpected place, to withdraw again with equal suddenness.
Turkish delight* - a sweetmeat consisting of gelatine boiled, cubed, and dusted with sugar.
hys = his
hyphen - a short dash or line (-) used to connect two words together as a compound; to join by a hyphen; to write (a compound) with a hyphen.
mys = miss
bellyswain - a glutton?
twalf - Sc. and obs. ff. twelve
horsepower* - with prefixed numeral, expressing the power or rate of work of an engine.
man - to escort (a person, esp. a woman)
thicket - a dense growth of shrubs, underwood, and small trees
mouthfilling - (of an oath, compliment, etc.) that fills the mouth, bombastic, inflated.
wold - a piece of open country; forest, forest land (obs.)
killing - overpoweringly beautiful or attractive
voyant - showy, gaudy, flashy; spec. of clothes, appearance, etc.
cope of heaven - the over-arching canopy or vault of heaven
fect - Aphet. var. of infect fact
trespass* - to make an improper or uninvited inroad on (a person's time, attention, etc.)
wicked - bad in moral character, disposition, or conduct
underwood - small trees or shrubs, coppice-wood or brush-wood, growing beneath higher timber trees.
spell - to utter, declare, relate, tell; to intimate or suggest a desire for something; to ask for, either by hints or direct request.
bushment = ambushment - a disposition or arrangement of troops in a wood or other place of concealment so as to fall on an enemy by surprise.
sprig - to divide into branches
twig - to understand, comprehend
benedict* - adj. Blessed, benign, salutary
gape - a rent or opening of any kind; to gape for - to be eager to obtain, to have a longing for (something).
intime* - intimate
innermost - most or furthest within; that which is innermost, the inmost part
brothered* - united into or by brotherhood
thirteen - the name formerly current in Ireland for a silver shilling, as being worth thirteen pence of Irish copper currency.
blanche = blanch - white paint, esp. for the face
turnagain lane - a blind alley, a cul-de-sac; also, a winding or crooked lane
callboy* - a messenger boy
magnus - black oxide of manganese, used in the Staffordshire potteries
max - gin
ye - you; thou
na - not, in no way, by no means
pink - the 'flower', or finest example of excellence; the embodied perfection (of some good quality); of a pale or light red colour, slightly inclining towards purple; of a pale rose-colour.
panties - short-legged or legless knickers worn by women and girls