renounce* - to abandon, give up, discontinue (a practice, action, habit, thought, intention, etc.); announce - to make known as an official messenger, to deliver new.
deviltry = devilry - devilish action or conduct; extreme wickedness, cruelty, or perversity; wicked mischief.
purchase - fig. A 'hold', 'fulcrum', or position of advantage for accomplishing something.
diamond cut diamond* - an equal match in sharpness (of wit, cunning, etc.)
confessedly - by general admission or acknowledgement, admittedly; by personal confession, avowedly.
homme (fr) - man
to the manner born* - in Shaks., destined by one's birth to be subject to the (specified) custom; In later echoes often: Seeming to be congenitally fitted for some position or employment.
splet - to split; to spread, smear (obs.)
pair of bellows* - an instrument or machine constructed to furnish a strong blast of air. In its simplest form, it consists essentially of a combination of bag and box, formed of an upper and lower board joined by flexible leather sides, enclosing a cavity capable of expansion and contraction, and furnished with a valve opening inwards, through which air enters and fills the expanded cavity, and with a tube or nozzle, through which the air is forced out in a stream when the machine is compressed.
Bacchus* - the god of wine
rousing - that is awakening or rising
guttural - a guttural sound; guttural utterance
peach - to inform against an accomplic, to turn informer; to blab, divulge.
warry - belligerent, warlike very
warst = worst
defile - the act of defiling, a march by files
misspeech* - evil speaking (obs.); incorrect speaking
baisement* - a kiss of the hands: in pl. compliments, respects.
tone - a state or temper of mind; mood, disposition
acquiesce* - to agree tacitly to, concur in
totty - tiny, wee
poppy - Of eyes: protuberant
flossy - resembling floss or floss-silk
conny = canny - agreeable to the eyes or perception, tidy, seemly, comely.
to have cold* - to be cold, to feel or suffer cold
up to the ears* - fig. deeply immersed in
hoven - swell, bloat
alltime* - for all time up to the present
aswarm - swarming
anent - facing, against, towards
dense - to make dense
uncouth* - with which one is not acquainted or familiar; unfamiliar, unaccustomed, strange.
compos mentis* - having control of one's mind, in one's right mind.
novus (l) - new
Marx - the name of Karl Marx (1818-83), German-born socialist writer.
shenk - to pour out (liquor), to give (a person) drink
skunk - to fail to pay (a bill or a creditor); to cheat
hither and thither* - to this place and that, in this direction and in that (alternately); to and fro; in various directions.
hand by hand* - at close quarters, side by side
mom - mamma
stub - a stump of a tree; a short thick nail stop
lurch - to remain in or about a place furtively or secretly, esp. with evil design.
amotion - the action of removing a person or thing from a position; removal emotion
apprentices; princesses
Nessie - a name for a monster or monsters supposedly inhabiting Loch Ness in northern Scotland.
nixie - a female water-elf, a water-nymph
real; royal
devout - devoted to divine worship or service; solemn and reverential in religious exercises.
marly - resembling, or partaking of the qualities of, marl; marbled, spotted merely
sprig - a shoot, twig, or spray of a plant, shrub, or tree.
curly - of a curled form; wavy, undulating; of plants, having curled leaves.
weeden* - composed of weeds
coil - to twist in or into a circular, spiral, or winding shape.
spruce - trim, neat, dapper; smart in appearance.
salt horse - salted beef; also transf., a naval officer with general duties.
sonny - a familiar term of address to a boy or to a man younger than the speaker.
tear - fine, delicate (obs.); of the best quality (obs.)
chit* - a person considered as no better than a child; now, mostly of a girl or young woman.
oh my* - a mild exclamation of surprise; mah = my.
seath - a pit, hole, well, or pool
colory - characterized by or abounding in colour