legion - a host of armed men; a vast host or multitude (of persons or things).
clam - base, mean, low
cartel - an agreement or association between two or more business houses for regulating output, fixing prices, etc.; also, the businesses thus combined; a trust or syndicate.
come off - to leave the field of combat; to retire or extricate oneself from any engagement.
roasted - that has been subjected to the process of roasting.
malt - barley or other grain prepared for brewing or distilling by steeping, germinating and kiln-drying, or by gelatinization, etc.
toast - to brown (bread, cheese, etc.) by exposure to the heat of a fire, etc.
burley - an American tobacco, of which there are two varieties, red and white.
for the duration - until the end of the war; hence, for a long or an unconscionably long time.
nonconformist* - one who does not conform to a particular practice or course of action; one who does not conform to the doctrine or discipline of an established church.
ironsides - Applied to Cromwell's troopers in the Civil War; hence allusively in later uses; The sing. is sometimes used of one member of such a force: a Puritan warrior; a devout soldier of the Puritan type.
trow - to believe, think, be of opinion, suppose tried
to contract out - to make an arrangement or agreement not to participate under certain conditions; hence, to refuse to take part in or be a part of.
coolly - fig. Without the heat of passion or emotion; calmly, collectedly.
tarpon - the Jew-fish, Megalops atlanticus, a giant representative of the herring tribe found in the warmer waters of the western Atlantic.
turbot* - a large flat fish (Rhombus maximus or Psetta maxima), having a wide scaleless body covered with conical bony tubercles, with the eyes normally on the left side, found on the European coasts and much esteemed as food.
porpoise* - a small cetaceous mammal (Phocæna communis) about five feet in length, of a blackish colour above and paler beneath, having a blunt rounded snout not produced into a 'beak' as the dolphin's.
fathom - 2.1 m.
bridegroom* - a man about to be married, or very recently married.
inch - 2.54 cm.
soldier; son
British; bitch
hun - a reckless or wilful destroyer of the beauties of nature or art: an uncultured devastator.
tent - attent, watchful; intent
wot - to know
kenspeckle - easily recognizable, conspicuous henpecked
sucker* - a person easily cheated or deceived, a greenhorn, simpleton.
cocke - scarlet
upright - to raise to an upright or vertical position, to erect. Also fig.
impressive; umbra - shadow
exemption - the state of being taken out or away; the action of exempting, or the state of being exempted from a liability, obligation, penalty, law, or authority.
howsoever - in whatever manner
droll - unintentionally amusing; queer, quaint, odd, strange.
deemster - a judge (obs:); the title of each of the two justices of the Isle of Man, one of whom has jurisdiction over the southern, the other over the northern division of the island.
win - joy, pleasure, delight, bliss; worldes winne - worldly delight or pleasure.
bond - to subject to bondage
year in (and) year out* - as each year begins and until it ends; continually throughout the year (and through successive years).
auspice* - any divine or prophetic token; prognostic, premonition; esp. indication of a happy future; prosperous lead.
suspectable - that may or should be suspected, open to suspicion.
expectancy - the state or condition of being expected, or looked forward to; esp. in Law.
respectableness - worthiness, creditableness
flock - a material consisting of the coarse tufts and refuse of wool or cotton, or of cloth torn to pieces by machinery, used for quilting garments, and stuffing beds, cushions, mattresses, etc.
bedding - a collective name for the articles which compose a bed, esp. the mattress, feather-bed, or other article lain upon, and the bed-clothes.
drip - a falling drop (obs.); the act or fact of dripping or falling in drops.
sister of charity - a member of the sisterhood founded for nursing the sick; a member of a religious organization devoted to works of charity, of which several have at various times been founded.
evacuant* - Med. That evacuates or tends to evacuate, promoting evacuation, cathartic, purgative.
cleanse - one who or that which cleanses; spec. A purgative.
back gate* - a gate at the back of, or leading to the rear part of, a house or other premises.
suspectable - that may or should be suspected, open to suspicion.
equitable - fair, just, reasonable; pertaining to the department of jurisprudence called equity.
dire - In weakened (now trivial) use, apparent first in dire necessity: terrible, dreadful; awful, 'frightful'.
want - deficiency, shortage, lack (of something desirable or necessary, esp. a quality or attribute); the state of lacking the necessaries of life, destitution.
plenty - abundance of the necessaries and comforts of life; a condition of general abundance.
ravishment - forcible abduction or violation of a woman; rapture, ecstasy.
dissolution - termination of life, death, decease
providential* - of, pertaining to, or ordained by divine providence.
sofa - a long, stuffed seat with a back and ends or end, used for reclining; a form of lounge or couch.
horsehair* - a hair from the mane or tail of a horse; Haar (d) - hair.
to play off - to complete playing; to pay off - to pay in full, and thus discharge the obligation; to clear off (a debt or claim) by payment.
turn out* - to cause to go or come out; to drive out or forth, to expel.
oldster* - an elderly person
fireplace - a place for a fire, esp. the partially enclosed space at the base of the chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth.
aspectable - capable of being seen, visible; fit to be beheld, fair to look upon.
greenhouse - a glass-house in which delicate and tender plants are reared and preserved.
in prospect - within the range of expectation; expected, or to be expected: now chiefly of something personally advantageous.
keep at ---- - to work persistently at; to continue to occupy oneself with.