Anne of Geierstein; Or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 2 (of 2)
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GLOSSARY.
=Abettance=, support, encouragement.
=Abye=, to pay the penalty of, to atone for.
=Adjected=, appended, added.
=Albe=, a long white linen robe worn by priests.
=Ariette=, a little song.
=Arquebusier=, a soldier armed with an arquebuse, an early form of musket.
=Assoilzied=, pardoned.
=Astucious=, astute, shrewd, cunning.
=Baaren-hauter=, a nickname for a German private soldier.
=Ban=, an imperial edict; the laws of the Empire.
=Ban-dog=, a large fierce dog.
=Barbed=, clad in armour.
=Beauffet=, a sideboard.
"=Blink out of=," to evade, to escape.
=Bordel=, a brothel.
=Botargo=, the roe of the mullet or tunny, salted and dried.
=Brache=, a kind of sporting dog.
=Bretagne=, Brittany.
=Broad-piece=, an old English gold coin.
=Bruit=, rumour.
"=Buon campagna=," open country.
=Caravansera=, an inn.
=Carbonado=, a piece of meat or game, seasoned and broiled.
=Caviare=, the roe of the sturgeon pickled in salt.
=Chaffron=, =chamfron=, the armoured frontlet of a horse.
=Chalumeau=, a reed or pipe made into an instrument of music.
=Coif=, a woman's headdress.
=Corso=, the chief street or square in an Italian town.
"=Cote roti=," wine grown on a sunny slope.
=Dalmatic=, =dalmatique=, a long ecclesiastical robe.
=Debonair=, affable, courteous.
=Dishabille=, undress, negligent dress.
=Dorf=, a village.
=Ducat=, an old gold coin, worth about 9_s._ 4_d._
=Entrechat=, a caper.
=Fadge=, to succeed, to turn out well.
=Galilee=, a porch or chapel beside a monastery or church, in which the monks received visitors, where processions were formed, penitents stationed, and so forth.
=Gear=, business, affair; property.
=Geierstein=, vulture-stone.
=Grave=, a count.
=Gutter-blooded=, of the meanest birth.
=Hagbut=, a musket.
=Halidome=, on my word of honour.
=Hypocaust=, a stove, heating apparatus.
=Jongleur=, a minstrel-poet of Northern France.
=Lauds=, a daily service of the Roman Catholic Church.
=Los=, praise.
=Morgue=, the proud, disdainful look of a superior to an inferior.
=Morisco=, a Moor of Spain.
=Pardoner=, a licensed seller of papal indulgences.
=Pavin=, a stately Spanish dance.
=Pennoncelle=, a little flag fixed to a lance.
=Peste!= plague on't!
=Piastre=, a silver coin, worth 4_s._
=Plump=, a clump, collection.
"=Poz element=," a German oath.
=Questionary=, a pedlar of relics or indulgences.
=Rebeck=, an instrument resembling the violin.
=Reiter=, a horse-soldier.
=Rhein-Thal=, the valley of the Rhine.
=Ritter=, a knight.
=Rote=, a kind of harp, played by turning a wheel.
=Samite=, a textile made of gold cloth or satin.
"=Sapperment der Teufel!="--a German oath.
=Schwarz-reiter=, a German mercenary horse-soldier.
"=Sibylline leaf=," the oracular or precious saying.
=Stadtholder=, the emperor's deputy in ancient Westphalia.
=Stell=, to mount or plant (a cannon).
=Strick-kind=, the child of the cord--the prisoner on trial before the Vehmic Tribunal.
=Stube=, a sitting-room, a public room.
=Talliage=, a subsidy, a tax.
"=Tiers etat=," the third estate, or representatives of the people.
=Turnpike-stair=, a spiral or winding staircase.
=Vambrace=, the piece of armour that covered the forearm.
=Violer=, a player on a viol, a kind of violin.
=Visard=, a mask to cover the face.
=Wass-ail=, ale or wine sweetened and flavoured with spices.
=Wassel-song=, a drinking or carousing song.
=Welked=, marked with protuberances or ridges.
=Yungfrau=, =Jungfrau=, a young girl.
=Yung-herren=, =Jung-herren=, =Junker=, the sons of a German minor noble.
=Zechin=, a Venetian gold coin, worth from 9_s._ to 10_s._
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