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Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century

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2017
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CRACK, gossip.

CRAIG, throat, neck.

CRAWSTEP, the steplike edges of a gable seen in some old houses.

CREEL, basket carried on the back.

CREMONY, Cremona [where the best fiddles were made].

CROWDER, fiddler.

CUR ME EXAMINAS QUERELIS TUIS?, why do you wear me out with your

complaints.

CURN, a very little.

DAFT, crazy.

DAIS, a canopy, a table placed above the others, a room of state.

DARGLE, dell.

DAURG, day’s work.

DE APICIBUS JURIS, from the high places of the law.

DE PERICULO ET COMMODO REI VENDITAE, concerning the risk and

profit of sales.

DEAD-THRAW, death-thraw.

DEBOSHED, debauched.

DEFORCEMENT – SPULZIE – SOUTHRIEF, legal terms for resisting an

officer of law.

DEIL, devil.

DELATE, accuse.

DELICT, misdemeanour, QUASI DELICT, apparent offence.

DEPONE, to testify.

DERNIER RESORT, last resort.

DIABLERIE, sorcery, witchcraft.

DILIGENCE, writ of execution, coach.

DING, to knock, beat down.

DIRDUM, uproar, disturbance.

DITTAY, an indictment.

DIVOT, thin turf used for thatching cottages.

DOCH AN DORROCH, the stirrup cup.

DOMINUS LITIS, one of the principals in a law suit.

DOOL, sorrow, sad consequences.

DOOR-CHEEK, door-post.

DOUCE, respectable.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE, persons of the drama.

DRAPPIT, fried.

DRIBBLE, a drop.

DRIFT, drift-snow.

DULCINEA, Don Quixote’s imaginary mistress.

DUNSTABLE, something simple and matter-of-fact.

DYVOUR, bankrupt.

EKE, addition.

EMBONPOINT, plumpness.

EN CROUPE, riding behind one another.

ET PER CONTRA, and on the other side.

EVITE, avoid.

EX COMITATE, out of courtesy.

EX MISERICORDIA, out of pity.

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