quark - quawk (the cry of a duck or night-heron); any of a group of sub-atomic particles (orig. three in number) conceived of as having a fractional electric charge and making up in different combinations the hadrons, but not detected in the free state            REFERENCE

muster - a pattern, specimen, example                                                                                                                             mister

bark - a small ship; in earlier times, a general term for all sailing vessels of small size, e.g. fishing-smacks, xebecs, pinnaces; in modern use, applied poetically or rhetorically to any sailing vessel.

beside the mark - not directly related to the main point of a discussion.

lark - a frolicsome adventure, a spree; a small boat

buzzard - name for the genus Buteo of birds of the falcon family; fig. A worthless, stupid, or ignorant person.

whoop - to hoot, as an owl;                       whoop it up (colloq. (orig. U.S.)) - to create a disturbance; to keep up an excitement or revel; to act or work in a stirring or rousing way.

speckled - covered, dotted, or marked with (numerous) speckles or specks.

rum - good, fine, excellent; odd, strange, queer

rooster - a cock; transf. of persons

flop - Of a bird: To flap the wings heavily

Noah's Ark - the ark in which Noah and his family, with many animals, were saved from the Flood.

cock of the walk* - the chief person of a circle, coterie, etc.;                           wark = work (obs. and dial.)

tristy - sad, sorrowful; trustful, confident, trustworthy, faithful                                                                                         Tristan

spry - active, nimble, smart, brisk; full of health and spirits

spark - a young man of an elegant or foppish character; one who affects smartness or display in dress and manners.

tread - Of the male bird: To copulate with (the hen)

bed - to lay in bed, put to bed

red - to make red; to blush

wink - to shrink, wince

overhove - to hover or float over or above

shrill - Of voice, sound: Of a sharp high-pitched piercing tone

wing - to use one's wings, take flight, fly

seahawk - one of various gull-like birds, as one of the skuas, and the frigate-bird.

seagull = gull

curlew - a grallatorial bird of the genus Numenius, with a long slender curved bill.

plover - the common name of several gregarious grallatorial (limicoline) birds of the family Charadriidæ.

kestrel - a species of small hawk (Falco tinnunculus, or Tinnunculus alaudarius), remarkable for its habit of sustaining itself in the same place in the air with its head to the wind. 

capercailzie* - the Wood-grouse (Tetrao urogallus), the largest of European gallinaceous birds.

troll - to sing (something) in the manner of a round or catch; to sing in a full, rolling voice; to chant merrily or jovially.

smack - to open or separate (the lips) in such a way as to produce a sharp sound; to kiss noisily or loudly (obs.); to perceive by the sense of taste; Also fig., to experience, to suspect.  

Kuss (d) - kiss

Tristan

whilest - obs. form of whilst

upborne = upbear - to bear up, support, sustain; fig. To support or sustain; to exalt.

by courtesy - by favour or indulgence; by common good will or allowance, as distinguished from inherent or legal right.

to listen in - to listen to a broadcast programme, etc.; to listen secretly to a telephone conversation.