nil - nothing
nix - nothing
to stop at nothing* - to be prevented by no obstacle (...They stopped at nothing in order to obtain their favourite food).
Patrick* - name of the patron saint of Ireland
pose - to examine by questioning, question, interrogate (obs.); to place in a difficulty with a question or problem.
apiece* - for each piece, article, thing, or (colloq.) person.
apace* - at a pace, i.e. at a considerable or good pace; hence, With speed; swiftly, quickly.
share - a part taken in (an action, experience, etc.)
guinea - an English gold coin, not coined since 1813, first struck in 1663 with the nominal value of 20s., but from 1717 until its disappearance circulating as legal tender at the rate of 21s. Guinnesses
weepful - full of weeping, mournful
twister - fig. something that confounds, non-plusses, or 'doubles up' lessons
quicken - the mountain-ash, or rowan-tree (Pyrus aucuparia).
aspen = asp - a tree of the poplar family (Populus tremula), with greyish bark and spreading branches, the leaves of which are specially liable to the tremulous motion that characterizes all the poplars.
broom - a shrub, Sarothamnus or Cytisus Scoparius, bearing large handsome yellow papilionaceous flowers; abundant on sandy banks, pastures, and heaths in Britain, and diffused over Western Europe.
limpet - a gasteropod mollusc of the genus Patella, having an open tent-shaped shell and found adhering tightly to the rock which it makes its resting-place.
spose - repr. an informal pronunc. of suppose (v.)
out of joint* - fig. Disordered, perverted, out of order, disorganized. (Said of things, conditions, etc.; formerly also of persons in relation to conduct).
bless me!* - ejaculation of surprise
somebody; poddy - an unbranded calf; a person with protruded stomach.
pit - to make hollows or depressions in or upon put
anybody; petty - petticoat; a little boy at school.
kitty - a girl or young woman; a kitten; used esp. as a pet name.
kelly - rhyming slang for belly
buzzard - fig. A worthless, stupid, or ignorant person
girls nightingales
alift - to lift
aloft - Of direction: Into the air, or from the ground; up, upward, on high.
parasol* - a light portable screen or canopy carried as a defence from the sun, a sunshade.
Shillelagh - the name of a barony and village in Co. Wicklow.
great father* - a grandfather
primrose* - a well-known plant, bearing pale yellowish flowers in early spring, growing wild in woods and hedges and on banks, esp. on clayey soil, and cultivated in many varieties as a garden plant.
bluebell* - the popular name of
two widely different flowers; a species of Campanula which grows on open downs,
hills, and dry places, and flowers in summer and autumn, with a loose panicle of delicate
blue bell-shaped flowers on slender peduncles; a bulbous-rooted plant, Scilla nutans,
growing in moist woods and among grass, and flowering in spring, with a nodding raceme of
drooping narrow bell-like flowers;
bluey - inclined to blue; more or less blue.
dandelion* - a well-known Composite plant, abundant in meadows and waste ground throughout Europe, Central and Northern Asia, and North America, with widely toothed leaves, and a large bright yellow flower upon a naked hollow stalk, succeeded by a globular head of pappose seed.
Gorsedd - a meeting of Welsh bards and druids; esp. the assembly which meets each day during a certain period as a preliminary to the eisteddfod.
orangetawny* - of a dull yellowish brown colour; tan-coloured or brownish-yellow with a tinge of orange.
bester - one who gets the better of others by fraudulent means
Battle of the Boyne* - (July 1, 1690), a victory for the forces of King William III of England over the former king James II, fought on the banks of the River Boyne in Ireland. James, a Roman Catholic, had been forced to abdicate in 1688 and, with the help of the French and the Irish, was attempting to win back his throne.
marrer - one who mars; a destroyer, injurer, spoiler
Jack the Ripper* - popular name for a murderer of women in London in 1888, who mutilated the bodies of his victims.
jocular* - a professional jester or minstrel
many's the time* - on many occasions, in many instances; often, frequently.
swink - to labour, toil, work hard; to exert oneself, take trouble.
unravel* - to free from intricacy or obscurity; to make plain or obvious; to reveal or disclose.
droughty - dry, without moisture; thirsty; often = addicted to drinking.
blotty - covered with blots, dauby blue