rough - made in a general way without detailed minuteness; having an approximate accuracy or adequacy, rudely sufficient.
equinox* - one of the two periods in the year when the days and nights are equal in length all over the earth, owing to the sun's crossing the equator.
plain - an extent of level ground or flat meadow land
Khorassan* - name of a province in north-east Iran, used attrib. and ellipt. to designate a carpet or rug made there, usu. with vivid colouring and fine silky texture.
Babel* - the city and tower, of which the attempted construction is described in Genesis xi, where the confusion of languages is said to have taken place.
elve = elf (obs.) eleven
skimish* - alcoholic drink, liquor
wetter - a wetting, soaking; one who wets
mournful* - full of, or oppressed with, sorrow or grief; sad, sorrowful, grieving.
aver - possession, property, estate, wealth; money ever
doomsday* - the judgement day
Reilly = Riley - In colloq. phr. the life of Riley, a comfortable, enjoyable, and carefree existence.
militia* - the distinctive name of a branch of the British military service, forming, together with the volunteers, what are known as 'the auxiliary forces' as distinguished from the regular army.
...Various military establishments sited in Woolwich Warren in the 17th and 18th centuries became known as the Royal Arsenal from 1805. The Royal Military Academy, begun in 1721 in the arsenal, was moved to Woolwich Common in 1806, into a building built by the architect James Wyatt. In this building many famous soldiers received their instruction, including Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, General Charles George Gordon, and General Orde Wingate.
somewhile - at some unspecified time, sometimes
stumm (d) - dumb; silent
the fleshpots of Egypt* - luxuries or advantages regarded with regret or envy.
wap - to beat, strike, blow, knock; to fold up, wrap
stilt - each of a pair of props, usually slender wooden poles with a foot-rest some distance above the lower end, for enabling a person to walk with the feet raised from the ground, as over a marshy place, a stream, etc., the upper end being held by the hand or under the arm, or (in a modified form) strapped to the legs, or formerly sometimes fastened beneath the feet. (The ordinary current sense.)
lep = leap (obs.)
onwards = onward - in the direction of what is ahead, towards the front.
lues - a plague or pestilence; a spreading disease, esp. syphilis
banshee - a supernatural being supposed by the peasantry of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands to wail under the windows of a house where one of the inmates is about to die.
pealer - a person who displays exceptional aptitude or enthusiasm for an activity.
Patrick* - name of the patron saint of Ireland
splendorous - full of splendour, resplendent, bright
agreeable - pleasing, pleasant
trustworthy* - worthy of trust or confidence, reliable
cylindrical - of the form of a cylinder
hepta - - seven
Anno Domini* - in the year of the Christian era; in the year since (the reputed date of) the birth of Christ.
timelag - the length of time separating two correlated physical phenomena.
prophecy* - the foretelling of future events
incommixed* - not mixed together, or with something; unmingled.
dead beat - a worthless idler who sponges on his friends; a sponger; a man down on his luck; a beat or stroke which stops 'dead' without recoil.
to give the cold shoulder* - to display intentional and marked coldness.
blighty - affected with blight (any malignant influence of obscure or mysterious origin).
perisher - that which perishes or destroys; esp. an extreme (of any course of action); a 'plunger'; also applied to persons as a term of contempt, and more generally, with an overtone of pity.
feller = fellow
longa - long
banjo - a stringed musical instrument, played with the fingers, having a head and neck like a guitar, and a body like a tambourine; peddler - one who goes about carrying small goods for sale.
aunty - a familiar, endearing form of aunt; In U.S.: 'A familiar term, often used in accosting an elderly woman.'
Box and Cox* - the name of a farce written by J. M. Morton (1811-91) in 1847, in which two characters, John Box and James Cox, occupy the same apartment (the one by day and the other by night); hence applied allusively to an arrangement in which two persons take turns in sustaining a part, occupying a position, or the like.
top hat* - a person of the kind or class that wears a top hat; an important or senior person.
roaming - that roams or wanders
cartridge - Mil. The case in which the exact charge of powder for fire-arms is made up; of paper, parchment, pasteboard, flannel, serge, metal, etc., according to its use. Generally, for small-arms, the cartridge contains the bullet as well as the powder.
patron - to act as patron to, to champion or favour as a patron; to patronize.
haw - An utterance marking hesitation
all for - entirely in favour of, on the side of all forgetting
tinder - fire; a spark; a tinder-box thunder
Feuer (d) - fire
obeisant* - humbly or servilely obedient, obsequious obedientia civium urbis felicitas
felicity* - the state of being happy, happiness
civvy* - civilian (one who does not professionally belong to the Army or the Navy; a non-military person).
Turkish* - colloq. for Turkish tobacco
rooking - cheating, swindling, dishonest