prawn - a small long-tailed decapod marine crustacean (Palæmon serratus).
squirt - to eject or spirt out water in a jet or slight stream; to eject or propel in a stream from a small orifice, etc.
cockle - the English name of bivalve molluscs of the genus Cardium, common on sandy coasts, and much used for food.
backsight - in Surveying, a 'sight' or reading taken backwards, or towards the point of starting.
greeneyed - having green eyes; the green-eyed monster (in and after Shakspere): jealousy; Hence fig. Viewing everything with jealousy.
Valentine - a person of the opposite sex chosen, drawn by lot, or otherwise determined, on St. Valentine's day, as a sweetheart, lover, or special friend for the ensuing year.
wink - a closing of the eyes for sleep; a (short) spell of sleep, a nap (rare.); a glance or significant movement of the eye.
breathing - exhalation and inhalation of breath
fairness - the quality or condition of being fair; beauty
rubine* - a ruby
elfin - pertaining to elves; of elfish nature or origin; diminutive, dwarfish
jasper - an opaque cryptocrystalline variety of quartz, of various colours, usually red, yellow, or brown, due mostly to the admixture of iron oxide.
canopy - a covering or hangings suspended over a throne, couch, bed, etc.
Tyrian - of or belonging to, native of, or made in Tyre, an ancient Phoenician city on the Mediterranean, the centre of an extensive commerce; spec. In reference or allusion to the purple or crimson dye anciently made at Tyre from certain molluscs.
awning - a roof-like covering of canvas or similar material, used as a shelter from sun, rain, etc.
rhubarb - the medicinal rootstock (purgative and subsequently astringent) of one or more species of Rheum; any of the species having heart-shaped, smooth, deep-green leaves growing on thick fleshy stalks, which are much used in the spring as a substitute for fruit; also, the fleshy leaf-stalks of these used as food.
consonant* - an alphabetic or phonetic element other than a vowel; an elementary sound of speech which in the formation of a syllable is combined with a vowel.
avowal - an act of avowing; acknowledgement, declaration; unconstrained admission or confession.
reder - obs. form of reader
abase* - to lower in rank, office, condition, or character; to humble, humiliate
vibro - - irregular combining form of L. vibrare to vibrate
verberate - to strike so as to produce a sound (rare.); to vibrate or quiver
tegmen - Anat. tegmen tympani, a plate of bone forming the roof of the tympanum of the ear, being a part of the temporal bone.
augur - a soothsayer, diviner, or prophet, generally; one that foretells the future eye
pat - that comes or lies exactly to the purpose; exactly suitable or to the purpose, apt
sunny - sun fish (small fresh-water fishes abundant in N. America)
gander - a dull or stupid person; a fool, simpleton; slang. 'A married man; in America one not living with his wife; a grass-widower'.
land - to catch or 'get hold of' (a person)
dore - to glaze with saffron, yolk of egg, etc.; dare (v.)
Zug (d) - train
Weg (d) - way
tug - a determined effort to accomplish or attain something; a hard try; a struggle
to clasp hands - to join one's hands by interlocking the fingers; also, to close or firmly join hands with another.
retire - to withdraw, go away, remove oneself (from a place, etc.)
curtsey - to make a curtsy; to do reverence to
akimbo - Of the arms: In a position in which the hands rest on the hips and the elbows are turned outwards.
devotee - a person zealously devoted to a particular party, cause, pursuit, etc.
irrelevance - the fact or quality of being irrelevant, want of pertinence
maypole - a high pole, painted with spiral stripes of different colours and decked with flowers, set up on a green or other open space, for the merrymakers to dance round on May-day.
ugh - a representation of an inarticulate sound of the nature of a hollow cough; an interjection expressive of disgust.
shem = seam - a joint used in uniting the edges of sheet metal either by folding and pressing them together or by joining them with solder; also, the line produced by this process Shem
shun - to avoid from repugnance, fear, or caution; to keep away from (a person or his society, a place, etc.) Shaun
loft - to store (goods or produce) in a loft (rare.) left
larch - a well-known coniferous tree; Abies Larix or Larix europæa
ogh - variant of och (an exclamation of surprise, regret, or sorrow; ah! oh!)
his reverence - As the designation of a clergyman. Also jocularly of a lady, her reverence
Allah* - the name of the Deity among Muslims
pretend - to make pretence, to make believe, to counterfeit, feign
helfen (d) - to help
sauce - sauciness, impertinence
to make a speech* - to deliver orally
noth - obs. Sc. variant of nought (bad, wicked; good for nothing, worthless, useless)
coquette* - a woman (more or less young), who uses arts to gain the admiration and affection of men, merely for the gratification of vanity or from a desire of conquest, and without any intention of responding to the feelings aroused.
Sally Lunn* - a kind of tea-cake
bloomer - a plant that blooms (in some way); a floriated initial letter of the alphabet; Regularly in pl. Loose trousers reaching to the knee or knickerbockers worn by women for bicycling, gymnasium practice, etc.; a woman who wears bloomer costume.
gegen (d) - against
een - obs. and dial. pl. of eye one