chowder* - a dish made of fresh fish (esp. cod) or clams, stewed with slices of pork or bacon, onions, and biscuit.
splendidly* - with much grandeur or display, sumptuously, grandly, gorgeously.
chub - a lazy spiritless person; a rustic, simpleton, dolt, fool; also, playfully, lad, 'fellow'.
wellworthy* - worthy in a high degree
bismillah* - In the name of Allah or God; a common Muslim exclamation.
hasard = hazard (obs.) - chance, venture; a chance; risk of loss or harm; peril, jeopardy.
justly - properly, rightly, correctly; rightfully, rightly; deservedly; exactly.
meddle - the action, or an act, of meddling or interfering
chappy - given to using the chaps, talkative
auro - - comb. form of L. aurum, gold European; Arabian
guise - to disguise, to go about in disguise, or in masquerade dress; to attire, dress.
anywhat - Indefinite compound of what (cf. somewhat): anything.
Persian* - of or pertaining to Persia (mod. Iran), or its inhabitants or language person
Dard - a member of any of several peoples of Dardistan, in the extreme north-west of the Indian sub-continent dart
pene = pain (obs.)
to put the finger on* - (slang, orig. U.S.) to inform against, to denounce to the police.
sealring - a finger ring bearing a seal
to hand - into subjection, under control
fondly* - affectionately, lovingly, tenderly. Also, with show of affection, caressingly.
finger* - to inform on or identify (a criminal) to the police; to touch with the fingers; Also, to do this repeatedly or restlessly.
signet - a small seal, usually one fixed in a finger-ring
classy - of high or superior class, stylish, smart
Kunst (d) - art
ravening - rapacious, voracious, etc.; raven - of the colour of a raven, glossy black.
dovely - dove-like, gentle
feast - to provide a feast for, regale
oriental; oreille - a pillow
alternate - done or changed by turns, coming each after one of the other kind.
cobble* - a water-worn rounded stone, esp. of the size suitable for paving.
whilst - while; till, until
panel - a window pane (one of the compartments of a window, etc. consisting of one sheet or square of glass held in place by a frame of lead, wood, etc.; the piece of glass itself).
caw - the cry or call of a rook, crow, raven, etc.
idyll - a short poem, descriptive of some picturesque scene or incident, chiefly in rustic life; idly - in an idle or lazy way, inactively, indolently.
loove - relict, widow love's
leaflet - a small leaf; a small-sized leaf of paper or a sheet folded into two or more leaves but not stitched, and containing printed matter, chiefly for gratuitous distribution.
jagged* - having the edge irregularly cut, gashed, or torn, into deep indentations and acute projections; torn or worn to a ragged or uneven edge.
casually* - by chance, accidentally
lavatory* - an apartment furnished with apparatus for washing the hands and face, subsequently also including water-closets, etc. In the 20th c. one of the more usual words for a W.C.
commit - to expose by some compromising act to possible risk, danger, or suspicion; to engage or pledge by some implicative act (to a particular course).
fortnight* - a period of fourteen nights, two weeks
informal - not formal; done, performed, etc. without formality or ceremony.
inexpressible* - something inexpressible
enliven - to give fuller life to; to animate, inspirit, invigorate physically or spiritually; to quicken (feelings).
liegen (d) - to lie, to place
Gobelin* - (f. Gobelins, the state-factory of tapestry in Paris, so named after its founders) Used attrib., as in Gobelin tapestry, the tapestry made at the Gobelins, and imitations of this.
manmade - made by man, made or devised by human effort; artificial.
Constantinopolis (l) - City of Constantine, formerly called Byzantium.
stature - bodily form, build (obs.); the posture of standing
asserted - positively stated
embellish - to beautify with adventitious adornments, to ornament.
underneath* - down below, at an underlying or lower point or level.
hawthorn* - a thorny shrub or small tree, Cratægus Oxyacantha, extensively used for forming hedges.
folly* - pl. A revue notable for the glamour of its female performers.
entrenched - surrounded with a trench, fortified. Also fig.
relieve - to ease or free (a person, the mind, etc.) from sorrow, fear, doubt, or other source of mental discomfort.
truly* - genuinely, really, actually, in fact, in reality
vegetable* - resembling that of a vegetable; esp. uneventful, featureless, monotonous, dull.
justly - properly, rightly, correctly