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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GLOSSARY Perms readily found in an unabridged dictionary, an encyclopaedia, 01 a gazetteer are for the most part not included in this list. Abide, pay for. Acantha, probably Acanthus, near Mount Athos. Adamant, magnet, loadstone. Again, against. Albanus, Pietro d' Abano (circa 1250-1316), an Italian physician and alchemist. Almain. German. Amorous, effeminate. Answerable (to), in keeping (with). Aphorism, a maxim of medical Argier, Algiers. Argue, prove, manifest. Artier, artery. Asant', Zante. Assure, pledge; solemnly promise. Astracism, constellation. Avouch, maintain as true, make good. Azamor, a maritime town of Morocco. Bagdeth, Bagdad. Baliol, probably a misprint for Belial. Balsera, Bassora or Basra, a city on the Shat-el-Arab, fifty-five miles from the Persian Gulf. Bandy, exchange blows; contend. Basilisk, pieces of ordnance, so called from their fancied resemblance to the fabulous serpent of that name (Cunningham). Basso, bashaw; now written pasha. Baston, stick, cudgel. Belcher, a facetious term ? probably = spitfire. Belgia, Lower Germany, or the Netherlands, in which Hainault, a part of modern Belgium, was included. Bevers, refreshments taken between meals. BileduJl, Beled-ul-Jerid (the land of dates), situated south of the Barbary States. Bills, prescriptions or advertisements. Blubbered, swollen with grief ? a word formerly not used with a ridiculous significance. Bombard, the earliest kind of cannon. Borno, Bornu, a region in the eastern part of Central Africa. Boss, a fat woman. Bottle, bundle. Brave, gaily dressed, fine. Brave, scorn, insult. Britainy, Britain. But, only; for no other reason than. Byather, Biafra, on the African west coast, north of the equ...
