bumbler - a blunderer (one who makes gross mistakes by incompetence or negligence).
up to scratch - up to the standard expected or demanded
to scratch one's back* - to gratify one by favours or flattery
grieving - that causes grief, pain, or annoyance
mistress* - a woman who has command over a man's heart; a woman who is loved and courted by a man; a sweetheart, lady-love; a woman who illicitly occupies the place of wife.
chuckling - a little chuck (chicken, fowl) or chick (a young chicken).
point blank* - direct, plain, straightforward, blunt; straightly, altogether.
skitter - to skip or skim along a surface, with occasional rapid contact; In various senses, with reference to the impartation of a rapid or sliding motion scattered
cavalier* - a horseman, esp. a horse-soldier; a knight
unborn* - not yet born; still to be born; Also in fig. context.
any old - any...whatever; any old how = anyhow; howe - valley, hollow, depression.
Dix - the lowest trump in Bezique and other card games.
scenically - in theatircal manner
ladylike* - befitting a lady, resembling what pertains to a lady; sometimes with depreciatory sense, effeminately delicate or graceful.
lassitude - the condition of being weary whether in body or mind, a flagging of the bodily or mental powers.
postscript* - to put a postscript to, to furnish with a postscript.
four* - a set of four persons or things
theometry - measurement or estimation of God
doon = down (obs.)
nut - to think, to use one's head. Freq. const. out.
peepy* - drowsy, sleepy; characterized by peeping
in the same boat - in exectly the same situation
reception* - the action or fact of receiving or getting.
dribble - a small quantity or drop of liquid
rathole* - a seemingly bottomless hole; used fig. or allusively of something that demands excessive expenditure.
stunner - a person or thing of extraordinary excellence or attractiveness.
blue blood* - that which flows in the veins of old and aristocratic families.
warhorse* - a powerful horse ridden in war by a knight or trooper.
noggen - coarse linen
whilk - which
dust - to beat, thrash
seat - the sitting part of the body, the posteriors
parlour* - a room in an inn more private than the taproom, where people may converse apart.
Mullingar* - town in Westmeath, Ireland
Lochlann* (ir) - Scandinavia
farfamed* - that is famed to a great distance, well-known, widely celebrated.
bounce* - Expressing sudden, violent movement
policing* - the fact of being or
acting as a policeman;
police officer - a member of a police force, a constable.
pump - to work with action like that of the handle or piston of a pump put
papisher* - a member of the Roman Catholic Church
...To strike hull in a storm, is to take in her sails and lash the helm on the lee side of the ship, which is termed to lie a-hull.
fyre = fire (obs.)
to shut up shop* - to close business premises
no mo - no more
clandestine* - secret, private, concealed; usually in bad sense, implying craft or deception.
chickenliver* - a coward
ashore - Of motion: To, or on to, the shore; to land; Of position: On shore, on the land.
stow away* - to cease speaking, 'shut up' (obs.)