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Protestation. A solemn declaration.

Passport. Permission to pass.

Plume, verb. To put feathers in order; to adjust; to value.
Propitious. Favorable, kind, merciful.

Plebeian; ple-bee-an. One of the common people; one having no title
Prairie; pra-re. An extensive tract of land without trees

Portal. A gate, a kind of arch.

Pugnacious. Given to fighting.

Pigmy. A very little person; adj. very small.

Phantom. An apparition.

Precinct. Boundary.

Pest. A plague, mischief, bane.

Pathos. Warmth or tenderness of feeling; that which excites it.

Punctilio. A nice point in conduct or ceremony.

Petrel; pet-rel. A water-fowl.

Patter. To strike as drops of rain or hail.

Panorama. A complete view, a painting.

Querulous. Habitually complaining.

Ravin, ravine. A long deep hollow.

Revolution. A turning over, an overturning.

Remorse. Painful sense of guilt.

Remorseless. Having no remorse; insensible to distress

Relentless. Unmoved by pity.

Reynard; ra-nard. A fox.

Raree-show. A show carried in a box.

Revelry. A carousing, noisy merriment.

Radiance. Brightness shooting in rays, splendor.

Recreant. Cowardly, wanting in spirit or fidelity.
Sympathize. To feel in common with others.

Stile. A step, or set of steps, for climbing a wall or fence.
Sanguinary. Bloody, murderous, cruel.

Stimulus. That which excites, that arouses to action.
Speculative. Contemplative, given to thought, fanciful.
Snip. To cut off the end or nib, to clip.

Scath. To damage, injure.

Suffocation. A choking.

Sycophant. A base flatterer.

Shrine. A case or box, as for relics.

Sedge. A narrow flag, a coarse grass.

Sedgy. Overrun with sedge.

Surplice. A white garment for clergymen.

Sphere. A globe, ball, orb, circuit.

Soal; pronounced sole. A kind of fish.

Sprat. A small fish.

Sparse. Thin, rare.

Saturnine. Grave, heavy, dull.

Stolidity. Dulness of intellect, stupidity.

Topple. Used here for head, or tuft of head feathers. (New-coined

word.)

Temporary. Continuing for a time, not long as to time.

Traverse. To cross, wander over.

Trill. To quaver, or shake; to flow.

Tablet. A little table, a flat surface.

Twitter. A small intermitted noise like that of a swallow.

Transit. A passing over, through, or beyond.

Toledo. A Spanish sword manufactured at Toledo in Spain. Unetherealized. Unrefined, sluggish.

Vehicle. A carriage, a means of conveyance.

Veteran. One long exercised or practised; an old soldier. Vault. A continued arch, a cellar, cavern, place for the dead. Viands. Meat dressed, victuals.

Volumned. In form of a will.

Veto. A forbidding; a right to forbid.

Warble. To quaver notes, to sing.

Wicker, wickered. Made of small willows or twigs.

Wince. To shrink, kick, flounce.

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