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by Lynn Viehl


  on the stroll: working on the streets (said of prostitutes)

  pain powder: a mild opiate or analgesic

  partymage: a magic practitioner who uses his power to entertain

  pasturelands: farm lands

  penders: suspenders

  physick: doctor

  piesafe: kitchen cabinet where food is stored

  piper: plumber

  pong: stink

  portents: predictions or signs of future events

  portints: portraits made from ambrotype photographs that are hand-painted to colorize

  posh, posher: wealthy aristocrat

  poxbox: diseased prostitute

  prayerhouse: the Fleers’ religious gathering places

  privy: restroom

  prodder: iron fireplace poker

  prommy: the promenade in the city’s central park used by horseback riders and carris

  pyre: crematorium

  queensland, the: England

  Queen’s Voice, The: the Crown’s official newspaper

  questioning: police interrogation at New Scotland Yard

  rasher: strip of bacon

  red joy, ruddy joy: opium

  redcoats: English militia

  redstone: brick

  reticule: purse

  rondella: an automated carousel-type apparatus

  rounder: a rubber carri tire

  rub: massage

  Rumsen: major city on the west coast of Toriana, roughly equivalent to San Francisco in the United States

  satchel: tote bag carried by women

  scrabbler: a person who makes a living by scavenging

  scram: salvage

  seeing: an act by a fortune-teller of predicting a client’s future

  seeking: an act by a fortune-teller of finding someone or something

  Settle: Seattle

  shaman: a native Torian holy man

  shopkeep: shop proprietor

  short sheet: a hastily printed, illegal daily list of horse races and other events for the purpose of placing bets

  silverblack: chemicals used to etch photographed images on ambrotype plates

  skip: boat

  Skirmish, the: a recent, brief naval conflict between England and Spain

  slaterow: a row house with slate shingles

  snuff: kill

  snuffballs: hollow glass spheres filled with magically enhanced poisons like bloodbane that kill on contact, used like grenades

  snuffmages: mage assassins who generally work in teams of two

  Son, the: Jesus Christ

  soother: chamomile herbal infusion, usually added to tea, to relax, relieve stress, and help with insomnia

  Southern Church: a Baptist version of Church of England, begun in the southern provinces of Toriana, tolerated by traditionalists

  sparkglass: a substance made of various minerals such as mica, galena, and silica that have been ground to a fine dust and mixed with exterior paint in order to create sparkle

  spellcraft: the methods and materials used by magic practitioners to cast spells

  squawks: slur for native Torian females

  stones: testicles

  streaky: a carri’s copper sideboards from which the black paint is wearing off or has been stripped off to simulate wear

  strumpet: prostitute

  sweet Mary: Mary, mother of Jesus

  sweets: candy

  switch: wig

  Talia, Talian: The Torian universe’s version of Italy, Italians

  tealass: a girl or woman who sells hot tea and cakes in a café or from a street cart

  teller: fortune-teller

  tenner: ten-pound note

  Tillers: a secret society comprising important political, business, and social figures

  timepiece: watch

  tinnery: a factory where fresh fish and other perishables are processed and canned in tin containers

  tint: a paper-copy image printed from an ambrotype glass plate; makeup used to redden cheeks and lips

  tinter: device used to imprint images on ambrotype glass plates

  tintest: a professional ambrotype plate developer and tint maker

  to let: available for rent

  tonners: members of high society

  Toriana: short name for Provincial Union of Victoriana, the alternate-history name for the United States

  tosser: a drunk

  trade: business

  trolling: looking for work

  trunch: a wooden baton carried by beaters

  tubes: a system of pneumatic pipes that deliver goods and food across the city

  tunneler: an underground city worker who polices the subsurface tunnels and keeps the city’s tube in operation

  understair: belowground level of building; cellar or basement

  unjammer: a mechanical snakelike device used to unblock tubes

  uptoppers: above street level

  vicar: priest of the Torianglican Church

  waders: thigh-high protective rubber boots

  waister: a wide cummerbund-type belt made of fabric that females wear around their waists to cover the joining of skirts and bodices

  warders: magic practitioners who create protective charms and spells to protect people, possessions, and property

  wardling: an object used as a protective charm

  warren: a tunneler’s assigned work area

  watershed: raincoat

  Welshires: people from Wales

  whitecart: horse-drawn conveyance used to transport the wounded to hospital or the mentally disturbed to asylum

  wichcart: a street cart that sells sandwiches

  willowbark: herbal remedy for headaches and hangovers (equivalent to aspirin)

  winge: slang for an older, grouchy person

  Yard, the: short name for New Scotland Yard

  zoopraxiscope: a device that uses images on glass disks as the first form of stop-motion projection

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  Since 2000, LYNN VIEHL has published fifty novels in nine genres, including her New York Times bestselling Darkyn series, the StarDoc SF series (as S. L. Viehl), and the Tales from Grace Chapel Inn series (as Rebecca Kelly). Ranked as one of the top one hundred female, top fifty book, and top ten SF author bloggers on the Internet, Ms. Viehl hosts Paperback Writer, a popular industry weblog she has updated daily since 2004 with free market info, working advice, and online resources for all writers.

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