KEY TO PRONUNCIATION

The diacritical marks employed are those used in Webster's New International Dictionary.

An unmarked vowel is a slighted short vowel, usually unaccented.

GLOSSARY

appended, added to.

abhor (ǎb hôr'), to detest.

abominable (a bom'ĭ na bl), hateful, un-aquamarine (ā kwa ma rēn') a bluishholy. green, like sea water.

Abyssinia (abi sîn'i ä), a country of arbiter (är'bi têr), one who decides eastern Africa.

accost (ǎk kost'), to speak to first.

address (ad dress'), skill.

adhesions (ăd hē' zhŭnz), things that stick), p. 390.

between parties, an umpire. Arch-Fear, death in person, p. 268.

argent (är'jent), a heraldic term for silver.

arid (ăr'ĭd), dry, barren.

adjuration (ăd jū rā’shŭn), appeal, com- aristocracy (ăr is tõk'ra cy), a superior mand.

ægis (ē'jis), a shield.

aërial hue (ā ē'ri al), airy brightness of color.

aforesaid, before mentioned.

allay (ǎl lā'), to make quiet or put at rest.

amber, a yellowish fossil resin found on the seashore, used for ornaments. ambiguity (ăm bi gū'ĭ tỷ), meaning that is not clear.

or privileged class.

Armada (är mä' dä), a great fleet sent

by Philip II of Spain against England,
and defeated in 1588.

armament (är'ma ment), forces equipped
for war.
arrears, debts.

articled pupil, a charity pupil, one bound
by an agreement, p. 294.
artillery, troops armed with cannon.
assail, to attack.

ambuscade (ăm′bŭs kād), a place where assemblage, a collection of persons.
troops lie hid ready to attack.
analogy (a nǎl' ō jỹ), likeness in some
respects between things otherwise
different.

animated bust, a lifelike marble portrait of the head and shoulders, p. 348. animosity (ăn ĭ mos'ĭ tỷ), active hatred. annals, history.

anon (a non'), at once.

antediluvian (ăn tẽ dilū vian), before the flood.

assize (ǎs sīz'), the session of a court for
trial by judge and jury.
assoilize (a soil'īz), to pardon.
assuage (as swāj'), to lessen, to make less
painful.

audacious (a dā' shus), bold, impudent.
audience, a hearing.

avidity (a vid'ĭ tỷ), eager desire.
azure (ǎzh'ur), a heraldic term for blue.

bandy-legs, bow legs.

apathy (ǎp'a thy), indifference, listless- banned, forbidden.

ness.

Apollyon (a pol'yun), the angel of the bottomless pit (Rev. ix, 11). apostrophe (a pos'trō fē), an address to some one or thing absent or present. apparition (ǎp pa rĭsh' ŭn), an appearance, a ghost.

bar, a sand bank obstructing the mouth
of a river or harbor.

barbican (bär' bi kăn), a tower defending
the entrance to a castle.
barbs, arrows.
bark, see barque.

barque (bärk), any small sailing vessel.

barouche (ba roosh'), a four-wheeled cavalcade (kǎv'al kād), a procession of carriage with falling top and two seats

inside.

horsemen.

cavalry, mounted soldiers.

antelope.

[country.

barriers, the separation between life and chamois (shăm'my), a small European death, p. 268. battlement, a wall or parapet around a champaign (shăm pan'), a flat open castle. chaplet, a wreath. beaver, movable armor for the lower chide, to find fault with. face. chine (chin), backbone. beneficence (bē něf'ĭ sens), active good- chivalry, system of knighthood; the ideals of knightly conduct.

ness.

benign (be nin'), kind, gentle.

benignant (bē nigʼnant), kind and gracious.

bereaved (bē rēv'd'), deprived of, made to suffer loss.

circumscribe, to draw a line around, to hem in.

civic slander, injurious false reports about the state.

clammy, moist and sticky.

beseemeth (bē sēm'eth), becomes, befits. clew (klū), a hint.

betimes (bē tīmz'), early, soon. blades, reckless fellows.

clove, held fast.

combing, rolling over.

comeliness (kůmʼlĭ ness), good looks. commander, one ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army.

condiment (kŏn'di ment), seasoning for food.

Confucius (kon fù' shŭs), a celebrated Chinese philosopher, died 478 B.C. conjectures (con jěk'türz), uncertain opinions, guesses.

conscript, one taken by lot and made to enroll.

consequent, following as a result. conveyance, carrying from one part to another.

cope (n.) (kōp), a roof.

cope (v.), to match oneself with, to contend against.

Cordillera (kôr dĭl'yā rä), chain or ridge of mountains.

cornice (kôr'nis), the molding at the top of a wall or column.

corporeal (kor pō'rē al), having a body. corse, corpse.

counterpart, a duplicate.

capacity, power of receiving and holding crackling, the crisp outside skin of roast ideas.

pig.

cartel (cär těl'), a written challenge, p. cribs, huts, mean dwellings, p. 391. 221.

casque (căsk), a helmet.

catastrophe

disaster.

crock, an earthen vessel.
croft, a small piece of inclosed land.

(ka tǎs'trō fē), a sudden croupe (kroop), the place behind the

saddle.

cruse (kroos), a small flask.
culinary (kū'lĭ nā rỷ), relating to cookery.
cunning virtue, a knowing power or
dexterous skill, p. 390. (Note how
much better Carlyle's phrase is than
this definition.)

ecstasy (ěks'ta sy), great music, p. 349. eddy (v.), to whirl.

elegy (ěl'e jy), a poem dealing with the thought of death.

ells, measures of about 45 inches. embrasure (ěm brāʼzhūr), an opening in a wall, for cannon.

cupids, figures like a beautiful winged boy, personifications of love. emprise (ěm prīz′), an undertaking. curate (kū'rāt), one who assists the rector emulate (adj.), eager to excel. of a church. curfew, an evening bell, signaling to enthralls, the wave holds the battlement cover the fire and go to bed. in an embrace, p. 326. entrée (än tra'), freedom of entrance.

enjoined, ordered, prohibited.

dark terrestrial ball, the earth at night, ephah (ē'fä), a Hebrew measure, about p. 68.

decrepit (dē krěp'it), worn by old age. deflowered, deprived of flowers. demesne (dě mēn′), a manor house with adjoining land.

9 gallons.

espied (ěs pīd'), saw.

esquire (ěs kwir'), an armor-bearer attending a knight.

essentially, necessarily.

demurely (dē mūrʼlỹ), making a show of ethereal (ē the'rē al), spiritlike, light and

dungeon-dew, the damp air of the dun- festoon, a garland or wreath hanging in

geon, moldy deposit.

dungeon's spoil, the prey of the dungeon,

the prisoner diseased by the prison life, dupe (dup), one deceived. [p. 322. dynasty (di'nas tỷ), a race of kings of the same family.

curves.

feud (fūd), strife.
fires, spirits, p. 350.

firmament (fer'ma ment), the open sky. fitful glitterings, gleams now and then. flood, the rising tide.

fluctuation (flŭk tū à' shůn), changes in grovelling (grov''ling), low, insignificant. movement backward and forward.

forbore, withheld the struggle with gyves (jivz), fetters to confine the legs. death, p. 268.

forborne, past participle of forbear, with- hamlet, a little cluster of houses in the held.

fuller minstrel, the more joyous poet, haunt (hänt), a place where one goes p. 18.

gamboge (găm booj'), a reddish yellow. Hebrides (hěb'rī dēz), a group of islands

generalizations, general views of things, hind (hind), a peasant, a country fellow.