Jove
proper n. Jupiter, Roman god
curst
adj. cursed
dunce
n. an idiot, a fool
ere
preposition. before
dotage
n. senility, weakness due to old age
laborious
adj. hard-working
Bœotia
proper n. region in Ancient Greece
elegiac
adj. sad, mourning, sorrowful
sepulchral
adj. dark, gloomy, cheerless
motley
adj. spotted, mixed, diverse
hoary
adj. white or grey (because of age), though also very old, ancient
tinsel'd
adj. decorated
coxcomb
n. a dandy, a snobbish fool
periwig
n. old word for 'wig'
Stationer
n. member of the Stationer's Company, the guild which came to be the governing body that oversaw almost all printing and bookselling in early modern England; also printers and booksellers more broadly
dabchick
n. a small grebe, or freshwater diving bird
cate
n. a choice food or delicacy
ambrosia
n. the food of the gods; something very pleasant to taste or smell
effluvia
n. an unpleasant or harmful odor, secretion, or discharge
welkin
n. the sky or heaven
mien
n. a person's look or manner, especially one of a particular kind indicating their character or mood
nutation
n. a periodic variation in the inclination of the axis of a rotating object
slipshod
adj. (typically of a person or method of work) characterized by a lack of care, thought, or organization
sable
n. a marten (a genus of small mammals) with a short tail and dark brown fur, native to Japan and Siberia and valued for its fur; also, the fur of a marten
sarsenet
n. a fine, soft silk fabric, used as a lining material and in dressmaking
chromatic
adj.
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MUSICrelating to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is written.
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(of a scale) ascending or descending by semitones.
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(of an instrument) able to play all the notes of the chromatic scale."the master of the chromatic harmonica"
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relating to or produced by color.
Saturnian
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relating to the planet Saturn.
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another term for saturnine, or (of a person or their manner) slow and gloomy, dark in coloring and moody or mysterious
ductile
adj.
(of a metal) able to be drawn out into a thin wire. In extended usage, something able to be deformed without losing toughness; pliable, not brittle.
hecatomb
n. (in ancient Greece or Rome) a great public sacrifice, originally of a hundred oxen
an extensive loss of life for some cause.
clime
n. a region considered with reference to its climate
jake
n. an outhouse