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Mary Barton by, Elizabeth Gaskell.
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OBSTREPEROUS: noisy and difficult to control
ReplyDeleteNESH: tender
ReplyDeleteFARRANTLY: comely, pleasant-looking
ReplyDeleteVICISSITUDE: a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
ReplyDeleteCYNOSURE: something that strongly attracts attention and admiration
ReplyDeleteFRABBIT: peevish, ill-tempered
ReplyDeleteFOIBLE: a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character.
ReplyDeleteNOR: generally used in Lancashire for "than.
ReplyDeleteDIAPASON: the entire compass, range, or scope of something
ReplyDeleteCOWD: cold.
ReplyDeleteMITHER: to trouble and perplex.
ReplyDeleteSPERMACETI: a white waxy substance produced by the sperm whale, formerly used in candles and ointments. It is present in a rounded organ in the head, where it focuses acoustic signals and aids in the control of buoyancy
ReplyDeleteTHEY'N: contraction of "they han," they have.
ReplyDeleteGAINSAY: speak against or oppose
ReplyDeleteLEAVEN: a pervasive influence that modifies something or transforms it for the better
ReplyDeleteWICK: alive
ReplyDeleteCHARITIST: Chartism was the first movement both working class in character and national in scope that grew out of the protest against the injustices of the new industrial and political order in Britain. While composed of working people, Chartism was also mobilized around populism as well as clan identity.
ReplyDeleteARGOSY: a rich supply
ReplyDeleteMANGLE a machine for ironing laundry by passing it between heated rollers
ReplyDeleteRITLING: probably a corruption of "ricketling," a child that suffers from the rickets—a weakling.
ReplyDeleteCOTCHED: caught
ReplyDeletePIQUANT: engagingly provocative
ReplyDeleteREET: right; often used for "very."
ReplyDeleteRUCKS: a great quantity
ReplyDeleteMOUNTEBANKS:
ReplyDeletea person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan.
WHITSUNTIDE: or Pentecost Monday (also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit) is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a moveable feast in the Christian calendar.
ReplyDeleteDOWN-LYING: lying-in.
ReplyDeleteDISREMEMBER: forget.
ReplyDeletePOBBIES: child's porridge.
ReplyDeletePOSSETT: regurgitate curdled milk.
ReplyDeleteBAGGIN-TIME: time of the evening meal.
ReplyDeleteDREE: long and tedious.
ReplyDeleteI'SE: I have not been, nor is, nor never schal.
ReplyDeleteGLOPPENED: amazed, frightened
ReplyDeleteLIEFER: rather
ReplyDeleteEBULLITION: a sudden outburst of emotion or violence.
ReplyDeleteCLEMMING: to be hungry or cause to be hungry
ReplyDeleteFORRARD: forward
ReplyDeleteKNOB-STICK: One who refuses to join, or withdraws from, a trade union
ReplyDeleteVIRIOL: sulfuric acid
ReplyDeleteASSIZE: a court which formerly sat at intervals in each county of England and Wales to administer the civil and criminal law. In 1972 the civil jurisdiction of assizes was transferred to the High Court, and the criminal jurisdiction to the Crown Court.
ReplyDeleteQUI-VIVE: on the alert or lookout.
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