eher (d) - before
hokey - In by hokey, by the hokey, a petty oath, or asseveration
gallus (l) - cock, rooster
collar - to seize or take hold of (a person) by the collar; more loosely: To capture
pullet - a young (domestic) fowl, between the ages of chicken and mature fowl
bone of contention - something that causes contention, discord, etc.
thorn in someone’s flesh* - a person or thing that causes continusous trouble or anxiety to someone.
prest - ready for action or use; at hand; alert, active; ppl. a. pressed.
make off - to depart or leave a place suddenly, often with a disparaging implication; to hasten or run away; to decamp, 'bolt'.
thinkling - a petty or inferior thinker; in a twinkling - in an instant.
neyther = neither (obs.)
clacking* - the making of a sharp, hard noise
rum - a spirit distilled from various products of the sugar-cane
ram - the act or process of ramming
harn - brain; brains
bier - beer (obs.)
consumption - the using up of material, the use of anything as food, or for the support of any process.
advocaat* - a Dutch liqueur made with eggs, sugar and brandy
pleader - one who pleads in a law-court; an advocate; one who pleads, entreats, or intercedes.
Mas - a vulgar or jocular shortening of master, usually followed by a proper name or official title.
pas - the right of going first, precedence; a step in dancing
poulette (fr) - young hen
ras - the title of a leading citizen
hue and cry - to raise the hue and cry, make an outcry; to pursue with hue and cry
blare - to roar with prolonged sound in weeping, as a child; to sound a trumpet, to trumpet; Of a gramophone, loudspeaker, etc.: to sound loudly and stridently.
fume - to emit fumes, smoke, or vapour; to give way to or exhibit anger or irritation
kindle* - to set fire to, set on fire, ignite
bushy - a dweller in the bush; a bushman as distinguished from a townsman bushes
sternward* - towards or in the direction of the stern
goed = good (obs.)
het - hot, heated; hate had passed
tear - to shed tears, to weep
goody - good in a weak or sentimental way; addicted to or characterized by inept manifestations of good or pious sentiment.
hominy - maize or Indian corn
hulled and ground more or less coarsely and prepared for food by being
boiled with
water or milk;
holy
bread - the bread which was blessed after the Eucharist and
distributed to those who had not communicated.
bumble bee* - a large bee of the genus Bombus; bee - a gathering or meeting for some object; esp. spelling-bee, a party assembled to compete in the spelling of words.
jaggery - a coarse dark brown sugar made in India by evaporation from the sap of various kinds of palm.
juju - an object of any kind superstitiously venerated by West African native peoples, and used as a charm, amulet, or means of protection; a fetish.
bother - to give trouble to; to pester, annoy, worry; Fine words, says our homely old proverb, butter no parsnips.
ante post* - Betting is of two kinds: 'post', when wagering does not begin until the numbers of the runners are hoisted on the board; and 'ante-post', when wagering opens weeks or months before the event.
vulgar era* - the ordinary Christian era
limbo - a region supposed to exist on the border of Hell as the abode of the just who died before Christ's coming, and of unbaptized infants.
ceased - that has come to an end
way - to go, journey, proceed
amnis (l) - river
anguish - to distress with severe pain or grief, excruciate
collis (l) - little hill
fetch - to go in quest of, and convey or conduct back
monkfish* - the Angel-fish, Squatina angelus
paddybird - the Java sparrow, Padda oryzivora; a species of Sheathbill, Chionis minor.
doc - colloq. abbrev. of doctor
doil - obs. var. of dole (grief, mourning)
hydraulic - short for hydraulic engine, press, etc.; to work or obtain by the methods of hydraulic mining.
common salt = salt
denier - a French coin, the twelfth of the sou; the act of denying or refusing.
G.P.O. - General Post Office
centrum* - the Latin word for centre
radient = radiant - Geom. 'A straight line proceeding from a given point or fixed pole about which it is conceived to revolve'.
score - twenty dollars; twenty pounds sterling (esp. in banknotes)
crore - ten millions, or one hundred lakhs (usually of rupees)
refraction - the fact or phenomenon of a ray of light, heat, (the sight), etc., being diverted or deflected from its previous course in passing obliquely out of one medium into another of different density, or in traversing a medium not of uniform density. More widely, change in direction of propagation of any wave as a result of its travelling at different speeds at different points along the wave front.
valuation - estimated value; worth or price as determined by deliberate estimation
pice - a small East Indian copper coin equal in value to one-fourth of an anna
N.C.R. - no carbon required, the registered trade-name for paper chemically treated so that the pressure of writing or typing alone produces duplicate copies without the use of carbon paper between sheets.
S.C.R. - senior common room (orig. and chiefly in the University of Oxford)
sulk - to keep aloof from others in moody silence; to indulge in sullen ill-humour
alp - a bullfinch; elephant; night-mare, demon
dark house* - formerly considered a proper place of confinement for a madman
thickhead - one who is dull of intellect; a blockhead
sting = stink - to emit a strong offensive smell; to smell foully