shoehand* - a shoemaking operative surehanded
slaughterer - one who slaughters or kills
shader - one who or something which shades
attach - to arrest, lay hold of, seize
hold - to keep from getting away; to keep fast, grasp
wilt - arhaic of will
summoner* - one who summons another to a place. Often fig. of immaterial or inanimate agents.
weatherbeaten* - Of persons, their countenances, etc.: Bronzed, coarsened, toughened, hardened by exposure to all kinds of weather.
hie - to advance or come on quickly, hasten on; fall at hand - to be near at hand, to be going to happen.
tocsin - a signal, esp. an alarm-signal, sounded by ringing a bell or bells.
canonize* - to place in the canon or calendar of the saints, according to the rules and with the ceremonies observed by the Church.
whereabouts* - the place in or near which a person or thing is; (approximate) position or situation.
hooper - a craftsman who fits the hoops on casks, barrels, etc.
stork - a large wading bird of the genus Ciconia, allied to the ibis and heron.
trundler - one who trundles (to go, walk, or run easily or rapidly; to go away; also, to walk unsteadily or with a rolling gait).
wot - to know
depth charge - a bomb capable of exploding under water
bomb - to attack with an explosive bomb placed or thrown for the purpose of destruction.
barrel - a (usually hollow) cylinder forming part of various objects
spillway - a channel or slope built to carry away surplus water from a reservoir
Jehosaphat* - a biblical name (2 Sam. viii. 16, etc.) used interjectionally as a mild expletive.
doom - the last or great Judgement at the end of the world
ruth - the feeling of sorrow for another; compassion, pity; sorrow, grief, distress; lamentation.
aurora borealis* - a luminous atmospheric phenomenon, now considered to be of electrical character, occurring in the vicinity of, or radiating from, the earth's northern or southern magnetic pole, and visible from time to time by night over more or less of the adjoining hemisphere, or even of the earth's surface generally.
Hector - name of a Trojan hero celebrated in the Iliad; hence: A valiant warrior like Hector.
waldemar* - a variety of velveteen, or cotton velvet, apparently a superior quality of fustian.
vasa - a vase
to peel one's eyes* - to keep one's eyes peeled (open, on the alert); peep - an eye (dial.)
blooding - the letting of blood, bleeding; wounding with loss of blood
Pliny the Younger - (b. AD 61 or 62, Comum - d. c. 113, Bithynia, Asia Minor), Roman author and administrator who left a collection of private letters of great literary charm, intimately illustrating public and private life in the heyday of the Roman Empire.
Pliny the Older* - (b. AD 23, Novum Comum, Transpadane Gaul - d. Aug. 24, 79, Stabiae, near Mt. Vesuvius), Roman savant and author of the celebrated Natural History, an encyclopaedic work of uneven accuracy that was an authority on scientific matters up to the Middle Ages.
Aulus Gellius - (fl. 2nd century AD), Latin author remembered for his miscellany Noctes Atticae ("Attic Nights"), in which many fragments of lost works are preserved. Written in Athens to beguile the winter evenings, the work is an interesting source on the state of knowledge and scholarship of his time.
Vitruvius - (fl. 1st century BC), Roman architect, engineer, and author of the celebrated treatise De architectura (On Architecture), a handbook for Roman architects.
Cassiodorus - (b. c. AD 490 --d. c. 585), historian, statesman, and monk who helped to save the culture of Rome at a time of impending barbarism.
Lukan = Lucan - pertaining to the evangelist St. Luke
kingdom come* - (from the clause thy kingdom come in the Lord's Prayer) heaven or paradise; the next world.
winkel - a store or general shop in South Africa
over measure - measure above what is ordinary or sufficient; excess, surplus
divulse - to tear apart or asunder; divorce - fig. To separate; to sever, cut off, part.
Punch - the name of the principal character, a grotesque hump-backed figure, in the puppet-show called Punch and Judy. (The name Judy for 'Punch's wife' appears to be later.)
pottle - a measure of capacity for liquids, equal to two quarts or half a gallon; a pot or vessel containing a pottle; a pottle of wine or other liquor; hence, drink, liquor; purseproud - proud of wealth, puffed up on account of one's wealth.
producer - the person who produces a dramatic performance, film, or broadcast programme.
biliousness* - bilious quality or condition; fig. peevishness, ill-temper
truant - a lazy, idle person; esp. a child who absents himself from school without leave.
side issue - an issue apart from the main point
cuttle* - a cephalopod of the genus Sepia, esp. the common cuttlefish, also called ink-fish from its power of ejecting a black fluid from a bag or sac, so as to darken the water and conceal itself from pursuit.
consort - a partner in wedded or parental relations; a husband or wife, a spouse.
foundling - a deserted infant whose parents are unknown; fondling - one who is fondly loved, one who is much fondled or caressed; a 'fond' or foolish person.
filly - applied to a young lively girl
shipman - a master mariner, the master of a ship, a skipper
scale - to estimate the proportions of
footsy - amorous play with the feet; foot - a lineal measure originally based on the length of a man's foot. (The English foot consists of 12 inches).
span - to measure in any way (obs.); to stretch or range from one place or point to another.
good companion - good fellow
ditty - a poem, ballad; that which is said; speech. Obs. rare.; ditto - the aforesaid, the same.
wishful - desirable; desired, longed-for (obs.); full of desire; longing, yearning, wistful.
quis (l) - who
shoed - furnished or protected with a shoe or shoes; shod