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85:30 Vigiliae Mortuorum. No such book is known.
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90:30 Mad Trist. No such book is known.
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91:29 alarummed. Alarmed.
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92:25 had fain. In the sense of was glad.
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The Gold-Bug was first published in The Dollar Magazine in 1843. The story won a prize of one hundred dollars.
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100:3 All in the Wrong. The title of an amusing comedy by Arthur Murphy (1730-1805).
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100:4 Huguenot. French Protestants, many of whom settled in South Carolina.
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100: 18 Fort Moultrie. Erected in. 1776. Defended against the British by Colonel William Moultrie.
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101:23 Swammerdam. A famous Dutch naturalist (1637-1680).
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101:25 manumitted. Freed from slavery.
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102:27 scarabaeus. The Latin for beetle.
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103:15 antennae. The feelers.
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105:8 scarabaeus caput hominis. Man's-head beetle.
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107:20 noovers. Manoeuvres.
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109:10 brusquerie. Lack of cordiality.
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110:26 empressement. Demonstrativeness.
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123:20 curvets and caracoles. Leaping and prancing of a horse.
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128:9 counters. Various coins.
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128:28 Bacchanalian. Revelling like the worshippers of Bacchus, the god of wine.
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134:28 Zaffre. An oxide of cobalt. See dictionary.
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134:28 aqua regia. Royal water – a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids.
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134:30 regulus. An old chemical term.
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135: 28 Captain Kidd. A Scottish sea captain who lived in New York in the seventeenth century.
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138:19 Golconda. A town in India noted for its diamond market.
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138:28 cryptographs. Secret forms of writing.
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139:27 Spanish main. The northeastern portion of South America, the Caribbean Sea, and the coast of North America to the Carolinas were harassed by the Spaniards.
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144:6 rationale. Reasonable basis.
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149:19 insignium. Sign.
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Published in the March, 1843, number of The Pioneer, edited by J. R. Lowell. Republished in Mosses from an Old Manse in 1846.
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154:29 "Eve," of Powers. A noted American sculptor (1805-1873). "Eve," "The Fisher Boy," and "America" are some of his chief works.
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168:28 Pygmalion. A sculptor and king of Cyprus.
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181:16 recondite. Abstruse or secret.
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168:27 corrosive. Destructive of tissue.
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184:12 vitae. Of life.
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166:3 infusion. The act of pouring in.
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167:1 Albertus Magnus. A famous scholastic philosopher and member of the Dominican order (1193-1280).
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167:1 Cornelius Agrippa. A German philosopher and student of alchemy and magic (1486-1535).
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167:1 Paracelsus. A German-Swiss physician, and alchemist (1492-1541).
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167:10 Royal Society. An association for the advancement of science, founded in London a little before 1660.
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Written in 1848; published in Holden's Dollar Magazine in 1851.
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182:26 Delectable Mountains. A range of mountains referred to in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
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190:22 ubiquitous. Being present everywhere.
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194:29 diorama. A series of paintings arranged for exhibition. See dictionary.
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195:30 Titanic. Characteristic of the Titans; therefore large.
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Published in 1878. Acknowledgment is due to the Charles Scribner's Sons Company, Publishers, for the use of the text of their edition of Stevenson's works.
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207:18 bartizan. A small overhanging turret with loop-holes and embrasures projecting from the parapet of a medieval building.
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208:1 gargoyles. Mouths of spouts, in antic shapes.
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209:30 debouched. Passed out.
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212:29 Leonardo. (1452-1519.) A famous Italian painter, architect, sculptor, scientist, engineer, mechanician, and musician.
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222:7 salle. French word for hall or room.
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223:13 Charlemagne. (742 or 747-814.) A great king of the Franks and emperor of the Romans.
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225:25 poltroon. A coward, a dastard.
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229:12 Hercules. A mighty hero in Greek and Roman mythology.
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229:13 Solomon. Son of David. King of Israel, 993-953 B.C.
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231: 26 steadings. A farmstead – barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.
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Written in 1884. This story is used by permission of and special arrangement with the Charles Scribner's Sons Company, Publishers.
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237:1 windfalls. Unexpected gains.
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237:3 dividend. His knowledge a business asset that draws interest.
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241:22 skewer-like. Like a wooden pin now used to fasten meat.
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242:11 leaguer. Place besieged with shadows.
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242:27 Time was that when the brains were out. See Macbeth, Act III, sc. 4, line 78.
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243:16 iteration. Repetition.
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246:25 railleries. Merry jesting or ridicule.
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247:7 garishly. A blinding, gaudy effect.
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247:7 Brownrigg. A notorious murderess living in England in the middle of the eighteenth century. She was hanged and her skeleton is still preserved.
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247:8 Mannings. Marie Manning and her husband murdered a former suitor. They were given, a death sentence.
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247:9 Thurtell. A gambler who quarrelled with Weare and killed him after he had professed peace. He designed his own gallows.
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247:25 horologist. One who makes timepieces.
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249:27 scission. A cleaving or a dividing.
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250:25 Sheraton. Next to Chippendale the greatest furniture designer and cabinet-maker.
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250:25 marquetry. An inlay of some thin material in the surface of a piece of furniture or other object.
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251:23 Jacobean. Pertaining to the time of James I of England.
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253:12 travesty. A grotesque imitation.
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254:3 sophistry. Methods of the Greek sophists.
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254:29 efficacy. Effective energy.
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255:5 sow tares, etc. See Matthew XII, 24-30.
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255:29 category. A class, condition, or predicament.
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256:14 hurtling. Rushing headlong or confusedly.
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280:10 dislimned. Erased or effaced.
