keep back* - to hold oneself or remain back; to restrain, to detain; to hold back forcibly; to retard the progress, advance, or growth of.
run up - to shoot up, to grow rapidly; to grow up to, arrive at, manhood.
goster - to behave in a noisy, boisterous, or swaggering fashion; to brag or boast; in some localities, to laugh noisily.
foster - a foster parent
fourling - one of four children born at the same time
chute - to send down through a chute (a sloping channel or passage for the conveyance of water; a steep channel or enclosed passage down which ore, coal, grain, or the like is 'shot', so as to reach a receptacle, wagon, etc. below).
woke - to grow or become weak, to weaken walking
small hours - the early hours after midnight denoted by the small numbers, one, two, etc.
plot - an area or piece (of small or moderate size) of ground, or of what grows or lies upon it; esp. one used for some special purpose, indicated by the context.
okey dokey* - all right, O.K.
figgy - resembling figs, sweet as figs; piggy - a little pig.
pink - a diminutive specimen or creature
porker - a young hog fattened for
pork; also, any swine or pig raised for food;
to buy a pig in a poke - to buy anything without seeing it or knowing its value.
pedestrian* - one who goes or travels on foot, a walker
perusal* - a reading through or over; survey, examination, scrutiny (obs.)
okey = okay
hemmer - one who hems; in earlier times, one who makes or trims borders of garments over
hummer - a person or thing of extraordinary excellence; a person that hums over
tree - to climb up or perch upon a tree; esp. to take refuge in a tree from a hunter or pursuer.
cave - to lodge or lurk in a cave
forsaken - deserted, left solitary or desolate
halt - lame, crippled, limping
reputedly - by repute or common estimation repeatedly
somewhatly - to some (slight) extent
broth - the liquid in which anything has been boiled, and which is impregnated with its juice.
poot - A dial. form of poult, applied not only to chickens and young game birds, but to the young of various other animals, e.g. a small haddock, a young trout.
dean - a presbyter invested with jurisdiction or precedence (under the bishop or archdeacon) over a division of an archdeaconry beans
any sin; anything
nark - to cease, desist, stop, terminate. Freq. in imp. (slang.)
finely - in a manner fitted to call forth admiration; admirably, beautifully, excellently, splendidly.
completion - accomplishment, fulfilment (of a prophecy, wish, etc.)
tavern - a house of which the principal business is the sale of alcoholic liquors to be consumed on the premises.
wisehead* - one who has a wise head; always in ironical sense, One who fancies himself wise.
sip - to drink (liquid, etc.) in very small draughts
sooth - truth, verity
bestir - to begin to move actively, to manifest activity
jowl - to talk noisily or angrily
sodden - Of persons, their features, etc.: Having the appearance of, or resembling, that which has been soaked or steeped in water; rendered dull, stupid, or expressionless, esp. owing to drunkenness or indulgence in intoxicants.
faller - one who falls, in various senses of the vb.
ruse - a trick, stratagem, artifice
whooper - a person or animal that whoops (to utter a cry of 'whoop!' or a loud vocal sound resembling this; to shout, hollo (as in incitement, summons, exultation, defiance, intimidation, or mere excitement).
square* - having a rectilinear and rectangular form of equal length and breadth.
atlas - a silk-satin manufactured in the East
brownie - a benevolent spirit or goblin, of shaggy appearance, supposed to haunt old houses, esp. farmhouses, in Scotland, and sometimes to perform useful household work while the family were asleep brown
buskin* - a covering for the foot and leg reaching to the calf, or to the knee; spec. The high thick-soled boot (cothurnus) worn by the actors in ancient Athenian tragedy.
shoeing - shoes collectively
peekaboo* - a nursery play with a young child, who is kept in excitement by the nurse or play-mate alternately concealing herself (or her face), and peeping out for a moment at an unexpected place, to withdraw again with equal suddenness; peaky - peaked, pointed; peak-like; booky - characterized by or derived from books; given to books.
ruddy - red or reddish
namely - to wit, that is to say, videlicet
indure = endure (obs.) - to undergo, bear, sustain (continuous pain, opposition, hardship, or annoyance).
snug - to make (oneself) comfortable, secure, or safe
cosy - to be comfortable, snug (obs.)
percept = perceive - to take in or apprehend with the mind or senses.