"vegetate"
Do nothing
"encumbrance"
Hindrance
"truce"
Treaty, agreement
"Tilbury"
A kind of gig for two, probably so called from the name of its first maker
"repose"
Rest
"All-Foxden"
Near Nether Stowey, Somersetshire, where Coleridge was living in 1798
"turreted"
Towered
"frittered"
Break into fragments
"Shandean"
Like the character of Tristram Shandy
"enraptured"
Intense pleasure
"éclat"
Brilliant display