dead as a doornail* - completely or certainly dead
bucca - hobgoblin, bugbear, scarecrow
imbibe* - to 'drink in', absorb, or assimilate (knowledge, ideas, etc.); to take into one's mind or moral system.
reassurance - renewed or repeated assurance; renewed or restored confidence.
lac = lack (obs.)
godliness* - the quality of being godly; righteousness, piety
fledge - a feather- or down-like covering flesh
culm - the highest point, summit, culminating point
huh - a natural utterance, expressing some suppressed feeling
ever since* - throughout all the time after a specified date
rudden - to become red
fuse - diffuse (a.)
royally* - in a monarchical manner, monarchically
bolter* - one that bolts or runs
unnamed - not mentioned or specified by name; not provided with a name, nameless.
the Green Island - Ireland
trademark* - a mark (secured by legal registration or, in some countries, established by use) used by a manufacturer or trader to distinguish his goods from similar wares of other firms.
easterling - a native of eastern Germany or the Baltic coasts
...Sitric Silkenbeard led the Danes to an ignominious defeat at the battle of Clontarf in 1014.
rix = rush (n.) - plant; rex - a king.
adverse - to be opposed or adverse to, to oppose
ord - a point, esp. of a weapon; hence, a pointed weapon, a spear or
conversion - change in character, nature, form, or function.
business as usual* - things proceeding normally in spite of disturbing circumstances.
alight - lighted, kindled, in a flame; on fire. Also fig. all right
Lucifer* - the rebel archangel whose fall from heaven was supposed to be referred to in Isa. xiv. 12; Satan, the Devil.
agen = again
Crystal Palace* - the name of the building of the Great Exhibition of 1851, when removed and erected on Sydenham Hill, near London, as a permanent place of entertainment; it was destroyed by fire in 1936.
putsch - a revolutionary attempt
timor (l) - fear
mortalis (l) - deathly
plague; play
dinned - assailed or disturbed with din don't
sass - to speak impertinently said
sor - Ir. pronunc. of sir
let alone* - to abstain from doing (an action)
personifier* - a speaker or writer who uses personification; one who personates or acts the part of another.
propound* - a proposition
edelweiss - an Alpine plant, remarkable for its white flower, growing in rocky places, often scarcely accessible, on the Swiss mountains.
wort - a plant, herb, or vegetable, used for food or medicine words
shaw - a thicket, a small wood, copse or grove Shaun
shea - a sapotaceous tree of tropical Africa, Bassia Parkii Shem
gurgle - to make a noise as of liquid issuing from a bottle, bubbling, or the like; to utter intermittent guttural sounds.
gurk - a belch
impose - to impose itself forcibly, authoritatively, or strikingly; to exert an influence on.
everyhow - in every way
smatter* - to have a slight or superficial knowledge or practice of; to dabble, to be a smatterer (in or at something).
gramm - what is written; a phrase
muddle - a muddled condition; confusion, disorder; mental confusion, bewilderment middle
therin after* - after, before, below in that document, statute, etc.
unbias* - to free from bias (predilection, prejudice)
brogue - a strongly-marked dialectal pronunciation or accent
obstruct - abstract
hostery = hostry - hostelry (a house where lodging and entertainment are provided; an inn, a hostel) history
unartful* - free from artifice or cunning
outer - external other
pawpaw - the tree Carica papaya, a native of South America, commonly cultivated throughout the tropics.
ape - to imitate, mimic up