A | B |
gleze: | to use flattery or cajolery |
swounded: (archaic) | swooned |
habiliment: | clothing |
Hyperion: | father of Eos |
giddy: | dizzy |
obsequious: | engaging in fawning attentiveness |
execrable: | utterly detestable |
ruinate: | involved in ruin |
servile: behavior | befitting a menial worker |
shive: (archaic) | slice |
venereal: | relating to sexual pleasure |
espied: | caught sight of |
baleful: | pernicious in influence |
poniard: | a dagger |
swarth: | dark in complexion |
lascivious: | lewd, lustful |
eunuch: | a castrated man |
obdurate: stubbornly | persistent in wrong doing |
complot: | conspiracy |
beholding: | gazing upon |
possest: (archaic) | possessed |
forfend: | avert or prevent |
patricians: | rich Roman landowners |
heinous: | odious, abominable |
churl: | rude, boorish person |
hart: | adult deer |
Prometheus: | Greek Titan god |
Caucasus: one of the pillars | supporting the world |
over-ween: egotistic, | arrogant, rash |
broacht: (archaic) | broached |
wots: | wits |
accited: | summoned |
affy: v. | to trust |
Styx River: forming the boundary | between Earth and the Underword |
Solon: | respected Greek lawmaker |
Candidatus: | candidate for a Roman office |
suffrages: those who have the | right to vote |
Sith (archaic) | since |
sumptuously: | excessively rich or luxurious |
Tribune: | Roman official under the monarchy |
faggots: | bundle of sticks |
spurn: | reject |
Perchance: | perhaps |
Welkin: | the sky or heaven |
Goths: | east Germanic tribe |
requite: | to make repayment or return |
grandsire: | grandfather |
Hecuba of Troy | wife of Priam |
conceit: an elaborate | or constrained metaphor |
caterwauling: | quarreling noisily |
maugre: (archaic) | in spite of |
Jove | Roman god of the sky |
supplication: | common form of prayer |