Kinch- Mulligan calls it a knife-blade, Merriam Webster says its a Scottish word a noose
Corpuscles-Something very very small, like cells and such. I think of cookie crumbs
Chrysostomos-This is a bit complicated, well maybe not, It translates to Golden-Mouthed. I think it was just a name they gave to people known for communicating intelligent ideas, or folks that talked alot.
Dactyls- BUM bum bum, BUM bum bum. MAl-ala-chi MUL-li-gan
Dancecard - Seriously, these are cards that ladies would take with them to balls to keep track of the fellows she danced with.
Gaud - A fancy and useless nick-nack
Hellenic - Another word for things that come from old Greece
Jejune - Nouns that are simple and boring
Lightshod - Ohh!! "LightSHOE"d! I read it as "LightSHAWD" - I guess it means being nibble. I don't think Lightshawd means anything.
Parapet - a small wall, or a railing around a roof or a balcony. It's what John Cleese stood on when he insulted King Arthur and threw animals at him.
Prelate - A church top dog, like a bishop, the pope or l. ron hubbard (I don’t capitalize the names of people I don’t respect
Saxon - The “S” in WASP. Back in the day, they were early Germans, I’m thinking, like the vikings. But later they started getting busy with Anglos (the “A” in WASP) somewhere in the west (the “W” in WASP). Now I think they are just known as Protestants (the “P” in WASP) that have roots in England.
Skivvy - Underwear in America, Turtlenecks in Australia, and House chores in England
Spurned - Rejected with contempt. I thought it was something like that. Just wanted to double check.
Stairhead - The top of staircase, Yup, makes sense. Ŝtupokapo por la Esperantoj tie
(un)tonsure - Tonsured hair means that a bald spot has shaved into it like the monk from Robin Hood
Hearth - A fireplace.
Barbacans - The tower part of a castle, or I guess just a tower.
Kip - A kip is a lot of things, In British terms, it means light sleeping or sleeping somewhere that's not your home. -- I'm thinking however, that in this case it might be referring to tea.
Hew - to chop or cut something
Wheedling - Buttering someone up to do or give something to you.
Prepuces - The Prepuce is the foreskin of the penis and also the fold of skin around to clitoris. There is also a thing called the Holy Prepuce. Besides being a kick ass name for a death metal band, it is also Jesus' foreskin. I guess its floating around somewhere, several churches in Europe claimed to have it at some point in time. Christians are fucking weird.
Paps - Maybe lady's nipple? "He watched here pour the measure and thence into the jug rich white milk, not hers. Old shrunken paps." Yeah probably a nipple
Scorn - To feel contempt for or snub/ignore something. To refuse to do something because you are too proud.
Thence - From somewhere that has already been mentioned. or "as a consequence"
Tilly - An Irish word for adding a little something at no extra cost. The Cajuns call it "lagniappe". Tilly is also a nickname for Matilda, I think it's more popular in Germany.
Dewsilky- I think this might be word that J.J. came up with. It is used to describe Cattle. I choose to interpret it as "dew silky" as in the dew on the cattle made them appear silky.
Kine - Oh dang, I didn't know this. It's a group of cows as in "Oh dang, that kine of cattle just robed that bank! This town has really gone down hill ever Jimmy Carter took over."
Cuckquean - It's what you would figure, the gender opposite of cuckhold, The female spouse of an unfaithful man. In biology, it's also used to refer to a woman who takes care of offspring that isn't hers.
Upbraid - to find fault is some one, to scold them
Bogswamp - Well, there's a bog and there's a swamp. You know its a swamp if it has tree growing everywhere. where as you know your in a bog because of the disappointing dirty quality. I think in this context, its just referring to the overall grossness of where they live
Consumptive- Having wasting disease like Tuberculosis, Which I think used to be call Consumption.
Shrive - an old term for going to confession.
Stoney - "Stoney Broke" British slang for being penniless. Us North Americans, (Canada and US) say "stone broke" but not too often these days. Now we just say we are broke.
Junket - To go on a fancy trip at the public's expense.
Puce Is this color Hex code CC8899
Mercurial - Someone who is subject to sudden or unpredictable moods. Also something that contains mercury. I would like to know if there is any kind of connection to the two.
Latin Quarter Hat - Quick google image shows me a mix of plan black hats, something you might see an Amish Man wearing, Floppy lady hats, and Berets. I thinking the black Amish hat in this case.
Ashplant - a walking stick from an ash tree
Japhet- is another way to spell Japheth. He is one of Noah's three sons, probably his favorite. He has two brothers, Ham and Shem.
Stolewise- A Stole is the fancy scarf that priests wear at mass. To hang something stolewise, means drop a fabric over something where both end of the fabric hang down both sides, parallel to each other. I think this might be a word that James Joyce made up.
Behold- to see and/or observe something, especially something extrordenary
Vigilant - keeping a careful eye for dangerous situations.
Heresiarch - The leader of a Heretical group
Heresy - Saying or believing things that disagree with orthodox religions
Mitre - The fancy hats that bishops and popes wear. Also when you cut the ends of to pieces of wood at 45° degree angles and stick them together.
Awry - all mixed up, or in this case, out of its normal or correct position, crooked
Consubstantiality - The difference between whether something is literally something or essentially something.
Terrene - earthy also not being of a metaphysical nature.
Worsting- Old-fashioned term for beating someone on in an argument or fight.
Host - (possibly Heavenly Host) a biblical term for the angels
Fathom - a unit of measurement equal to 6 feet, usually used for measuring depth of water.
Rotto - In Italian, it means broken. In this case, its means bad, drunk, lousy, Irresponsible
Chemise - French for shirt, Lady's undergarments, or a priest's preaching garments
Rilling - Flowing in a small stream.
"Up the poll" - Whole lot of things, in this case, being pregnant.
Circumdentur - Third-person plural present passive subjunctive of Circumdo
Niche - 1. A good place to be in life of employment. "Oh man, I got this sweet security job at the bank. I really feel like I have found my niche. Things have not been this good since Carter was in office.
2. special place in the market for a product or a service "I have made a special security system designed exclusively for banks. I do believe I have carved out a niche the bank defense market. Not even Jimmy Carter can stop me now!"and
3. I think this might be our fish, A shallow recess, inside of a wall to display a stature or something.
Usurper - Someone who takes a leadership role illegally and/or by force.
Pyrrhic Victory - A victory that inflicts such a heavy tyoll on the winner that it is tantamount to defeat. If your have a Pyrrhic Victory, that means that you won the battle, but you lost so much in the fight, that it turned out to be a pointless, and it will probably cause more troubles in the future.
At Whiles - At times
Figrolls - British homemade Fig Newtons
Tittering- Halfway trying to hold in a laugh.
Chapbook - Little old books that were cheaply made. They had short stories, poems. little jingles, stuff like that.
Deftly- In a skillful or clever manner. Lerta, Esperante.
Disesteem - To have a low opinion of something
Beldam - Mean old ugly lady, or a witch
Fettered- Chained up, usually by leg cuffs, or to be restricted or held back
Oust - To remove, some one from a position or place. To deprive some one of having something.
Gabbled - Gibberjabber
Swarthy - Dark skinned
Con - To study really hard, or memorize a piece of writing.
About - the British use this word to indicate the location of a thing or things around a particular place. "There are shady cattle about"
Thought - An idea or opinion produced by thinking, or occurring suddenly in the mind
or
The action of process of thinking
or
The formation of opinions, especially as a philosophy or system of ideas, or the opinions so formed
or
Careful consideration or attention
or
Concern for another's well-being or convenience
Craven- Cowardly
Scoffer - Someone who mock others, usually about religious or moral issues.
Asunder - to be split up, separated, scattered about.
Prostrate - to lay on your stomach, face down (sometimes in submission. To severally overpower someone.
Bestrode - Past tense of bestride, to stand over or to straddle or mount.
Rapine - The act of violently stealing someone's property.
Askance - To be suspicious or skeptical
Mummery - A ridiculous ceremonial, especially a religious one
Amor matris - Latin "Mother's love"
Polymath - Evidently doesn't mean mathematician, It is a Greek word meaning "having learned much" The Romans would have said homo universalis, meaning "universal man" . It just means someone knows a lot of things, and is able to fix a lot of problems, Think Leonardo da Vinci.
Moor - This is what Christian Europeans used to call Muslims who lived around the Mediterranean Sea: Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Sicily, etc. This name would eventually turn into a "somewhat" what derogatory European term for Muslims in general.
*Last chance edit. I put somewhat in quotes because I don't feel good suggesting I know what what is or isn't derogatory outside of my own culture. The word is not used my world, and I have only seen it once before in another book. Anyway, here it is. Do what you want with it.
Mien - An individuals vibe. An indication of someones character and mood
Mein - German equivalent of "My"
Laggard - Someone who keeps falling behind, lagging
Gaiters - Fabric or leather that cover the lower half of you legs. From the top of your shoe, like the ankle, to somewhere below your knees.
They were also worn by Church of England big shots. At first they were practical because they needed to promenade around and talk church, but later after finding out that walking around is for suckers, they deemed them to be symbolic instead.
Abrade - Using friction to wear something down.
Base Metal - Common metals that don't contain iron: Aluminum, Copper, Lead, Nickel, and Tin.
Bog - An informal British word for the bathroom.
Strongroom - A sturdy room built to keep things safe. A vault.
Whelks (Scungilli)- Various types of sea snails that are safe to eat.
Money Cowries (Monetaria Moneta) - Small sea snails, their shells were used as money in countries around the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Probably not safe to eat.
Leopard Shells (Tiger Cowrie) (Cypraea tigris) - A large sea snail, their shells are popular among seashell enthusiasts. Probably not safe to eat.
Emir - A Muslim big shot, Usually Arab.
Tartan - The Gaelic Scottish called is a "Breacan". The Americans call it plaid. Its the fabric of which kilts are made.
Filibeg - A kilt.
Tory - Theses folks are the British equivalents of American conservatives. A Tory is one who follows a political philosophy called Toryism. They say the UK is at its best when it upholds the supremacy of social order as it has evolved throughout the history of English culture. They are pro-monarchy and anti-Whig.
Prelate - A bishop or some other religious top dog.
Demagogue - A political leader, who doesn't argue rationally, but instead aims to gain support by appealing to the feelings and prejudices of the everyday person.
Although, in old Greece and Rome, Demagogues were pretty good guys, that advocated for the causes of the common people.
Papish - A Scottish and Irish derogatory word for a Roman Catholic
The Black North - Generally referring to the Protestant Northern Ireland area
Spindle Side - The mother's side of family tree.
Spear Side - The father's side of a family tree
Per vias Rectas - Google translate: "Through the right way" on other words "By proper means"
Topboot - A tall horse riding boot, usually with a some light colored leather at the top
Kicking Back - A hockey field player or substitute who replaces an unavailable goalkeeper.
Manifestation - 1. The action of fact showing an abstract idea. 2. an appearance of a ghost or spirit.
Leman - A secret lover
Break a Lance - To engage with someone a type of competition.
Couchant - When an animal is resting on the legs and raising the head.
Toothless - Having neither sharpness nor bite. Lacking the means of enforcement or coercion.
Spangle - A small piece of sparkly material, which among many, are sewn onto clothing as decoration. A sequin.
Ineluctable - Unable to be resisted, unavoidable, inescapable.
Modality - A particular mode in which something exists or is experienced or expressed. 1. A particular method or procedure. 2. a particular form of sensory perception. 3. A symptom or pattern that aids in diagnosis.
Seawrack - Various types of seaweed that grow or cast around a shoreline.
Diaphane - Something transparent
or
(In Aristotelian philosophy) The bare bones or innate characteristics of contained in a mental image.
Sconce - A candle or torch holder attached to a wall.
or
a type of construction designed to from a fire or weather
Maestro di color che sanno - (Italian)'Master of the men who know'
Adiaphane - Opaque, Nontransparent, not diaphaous
Translucent - A way of describing an object that allows light to pass through, but not detailed shapes
Privation - 1. Whenever you lack the essential things that will keep you alive. 2. The lack of a quality or attribute that would be expected to be present.
Howsomever - Never the less, yet, however.
Nacheinander - (German) Successfully, Consecutively, One after another, Step by step.
Beetle -When a large rock or someone's eyebrows protrude or hang their respective faces.
Nebeneinander - (German) Generally to be side by side. To be neck and neck, like in race. To coexist, or to do things simultaneously.
Nebeneinander (noun) - Coexistence, Simultaneousness
Illeism - Referring yourself in the 3rd person.
Eternity - Limitless or endless time; impossible to measure in regards to time.
Dominie - A Scottish schoolmaster.
Acatalectic - When a line in a poem has the correct number of syllables
Tetrameter - When a line in a poem has four metrical feet.
Iamb - One metrical foot in a poem that goes "bum BUM".
Deline - An old-fashioned way of saying Delineate, it means to represent or flesh out an idea with sketches, words, pictures, gestures, outlines, or whatever works for you.
Basta - (Spanish) "That's enough" or "Stop it"
Terrace - A nice little area to hang out at, usually next to or attached to a building.
Prudently - Carefully and with thought for the future.
Frauenzimmer - (German) Translates to "Woman Room". It's and old fashioned insult to women. Way back when, it literally meant a woman's room and her things. Later, it would also include the woman's attendants. Eventually, the word would just mean a lady's individual attendant, usually another woman of lower status. This is why it became derogatory.
Shelving - (Geology) When the ground is slopping or in a particular direction
Splayed - When your body parts are spread out. Like when you make a snow angel.
Silt - Material that can be found in soil, sand, water, just about anywhere. A grain of silt is bigger that a grand of sand and smaller than a grain of clay.
Lourdily - It might come from the french word Lourd, which means 'Heavy', or it might come from the Scottish word Lourd which represents a habitual drunkard.
Gamp - A large umbrella.
Relict - A widow.
Ruddy - Generally describes something of the human body that is red, a sunburn, rash, embarrassed red face, blood, and so on
Ein Sof/Eyn Sof - (Kabbalah) God before he manifested himself in any of the Four Worlds.
Tzimtzum - (Kabbalah) An explanation of the process of creation, saying that God “Compressed” “himself” to make room for “A conceptual space” to allow other other “less special” things to exist.
Taut - Stretched really tight. No slack.
Vellum - Fancy parchment made from the skin of a calf
Original Sin - The inherited tainted nature you earn from being born.
Begotten - To have been created by procreation, with an emphasis on the male side of procreation; To have been fathered by someone.
Sunder - To split apart.
Lex Eterna - aka Lex Aeterna. According to St. Augustine, it is “the Divine Intellect and the Will of God which commands us to observe the natural order, and forbids us to disturb it."
Or
According to the American legal system it is the eternal law; the moral law, the law of nature. It is the law which God at the time of the creation of the nature of the nature of man infused into his heart, for his preservation and direction
Substance - 1. A real life physical thing 2. The most important, real and essentials part of something.
Essence - The basic nature or indispensable quality of something that determines its character
Divine - 1. Holy; made of, from , or like a god.
Or
1.To figure something out buy guessing or intuition. 2. To predict the future.
Or
The process of finding water by walking around, holding sticks in front of you.
Consubstantial - Made of the same substance and essence of something else, usually in regards to the Holy Trinity.
Subordinationism - The early Christian idea that the Son and the Holy Spirit are subordinate to the Father.
Trinitarianism - The Christian idea and status quo that God exists as people, but is one being.
Illstarred (Ill starred) - Unlucky
Watercloset - 1. A small room or compartment with a toilet. 2. A toilet
Euthanasia - The practice of ending a life to relieve suffering
Crozier - A bishop’s walking stick, with a hook at the top.
See - The location where a cathedral is placed, it is the seat of bishop’s or archbishop’s authority.
Widowed See - A see without a bishop or archbishop
Omophorion - The clothing worn by a Bishop of the Eastern Church
Airs - Taken from the French version of airs, equivalent the English “look” “appearance” “bearing” or “tone. When Airs is spoken in English, it usually goes: “ To have airs” or “Putting on Airs”. Meaning your are acting in a condescending or arrogant way, in other words you are acting snobby or stuck up.
Champing - To grind with your teeth.
Bridle -1. A horse’s headgear which has a bit and reins 2. To restrain or control as if with a bridle
Cost Drawer - 1 Someone who spends someone else's money. 2. Someone who makes a bill of cost or an order form for a business.
Gondolier - The pilot of a Gondola
Gondola - A small row boat designed to traverse the city of Venice.
Cornet - A stubby trumpet.
Skeweyed - Having eyes that look in opposite directions
Dun - A debt Collector
Nuncle - An uncle. The term used to be “mine uncle” then, “my nuncle”, then “nuncle”, then uncle,
Hillock - A small hill.
Moiety - When you divide something in half, each of the halves is a moiety.
Duces Tecum - A summons ordering the recipient to come to court and show evidence.
Bogoak - Also known as Quercus is fallen oak that has been fossilized peat bogs for a really long time. Very valuable
Requiescat - A prayer of wish for a dead person. Basically the same thing as R.I.P.
Lithia water - Rare mineral water with lithium salts, known for its alleged health benefits
All’erta - (Italian) alert, alarm, warning bell. On guard!
Aria di sortita - An italian musical term for when the first character shows up and sings the first
Decadence - The process of decaying
Or
Decadence - Luxurious self-indulgence
Gentry - Fancy British people of good social stock, but not as good as the noble British.
Bay - A space inside of a room that is projected from a wall, kind of like a cubbyhole or a nook
Rabble - A large number of people, Sometimes an angry mob or just ordinary folks.
Cathedral Close- The area around a cathedral, sometimes extending past 100 yards. This property was owned by the Cathedral and was under the control of the local bishop. It usually had schools, and other buildings used by the diocese. It’s called a close because it had gates to keep out the rabble (see Rabble) when things got hairy.
Star - a white patch on the forehead of animals, specifically horses.
Garland - A wreath of flowers and leaves
Comminate - To threaten with divine punishment. To curse
Footpace - The ground or floor at the bottom of a staircase or a flight of steps.
Descende - (Latin) Descend.
Monstrance - Aka Ostensorium. A display case that looks like a ridiculously fancy candle stick. It’s usually used to show off communion bread, but it can also be used to display some relic of a saint, or whatever
Burly - A big strong person.
Alb - The white gown that priests wear at mass
Pyx - The fancy container that holds the consecrated bread of the Eucharist
Lady Chapel - A building built for the worshipping of the Virgin Mary.
Housel - Another word for the Eucharist, or the act of giving or receiving it.
Dan - A title equivalent to Master or Sir.
Image - 1. A representation of the external form of something. 2. A general impression that someone one presents to the public
