how do you do?* - common phrase used in inquiring as to a person's health.
wode = void; wood
Brieftrager (ger) - postman
concern - a business organization; a business, a firm
rate - to reckon, calculate, to estimate the worth or value of
quis - who (wants this); quo = who; quock = quake; quis, quae, quod (l) - who, which (masc., fem., neut.)
Apostles* - the twelve witnesses
whom Jesus Christ sent forth to preach his Gospel to the world;
apostrophe - "
’ ".
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misunderstand* - to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense
riposte - an effective reply by word or act
myther = moider - to labour very hard; mytheria (gr) - traditions.
rector - the permanent head or master of a university, college, school, or religious institution.
beanstalk* - the stem of the bean-plant: so called in the fairy-tale of 'Jack and the Beanstalk'.
bluegum - Australian timber tree
baobab* - a tree, also called 'Monkey-bread,' with a stem of enormous thickness.
welingtonia - the popular name in England of Sequoia (Wellingtonia) gigantea, a large coniferous tree, native of California.
nudi - - naked; [pedibus] nudis (l) - with bare [feet].
trouter - one that fishes for trout
claudeo (l) - to limp, be lame; cloud - to cover or darken with clouds; hence fig., to overshadow, throw into the shade.
conciliation - conversion from a state of hostility or distrust; the promotion of good will by kind and considerate measures.
esker - a long narrow mound of material deposited by a stream flowin on within or beneath a stagnant glacier.
sport - to make public and ostentatious display of, to show of, to wear with satisfaction.
chaingang - a gang or number of convicts chained together to prevent escape.
albert - a watch chain worn across the front of a vest
heinousness - extreme wickedness, atrociousness
successive - characterized by or involving succession, brought about or produced in succeeding stages.
Serbian* - of or belonging to Serbia
drawingroom* - a private chamber attached to a more public room; now, a room reserved for the reception of company, and to which the ladies withdraw from the dining-room after dinner.
hearth rug* - a rug laid before a fireplace to protect the carpet or floor
Wilberforce, William (1759-1833) - British M.P., chiefly associated with the abolition of the slave trade.
heather - the native species of the Linnæan genus Erica (herb)
VARTRY RIVER* - Rising at the base of Mt Douce in County Wicklow, it flows South to Roundwood, where it is dammed to form the reservoir which, since 1868, has been the main South Dublin water supply. From the reservoir the much-diminished Vartry traverses the Devil's Glen and ends at the sea inlet of Broad Lough, near the town of Wicklow.
boyne - a flat shallow tub or bowl; river Boyne.
fodder - food in general (obs.); food for cattle
America; Marken (ger) - stamps.
ge- (ger) - (prefix for certain nouns, past participles)
tutor - one employed in the supervision and instruction of a youth in a private household.
Cornish - the ancient language of Cornwall, a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages; it became extinct in the latter part of the 18th c.
voucher - one that sponsors or guarantees, witness