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jasper ⇒ a opague, impure variety of quartz used as a gemstone. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jasper">jasper</a>

alabaster ⇒ A dense translucent, white or tinted fine-grained gypsum (AHD). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabaster">Alabaster</a>

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Wazir ⇒
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wazir">Wazir</a>

Emirs ⇒ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emir">Emir</a>

Grandees ⇒ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandee">Grandee</a>


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tire⇒ attire; a headband or headdress. 

baldaquin⇒? 

magaritas⇒?. 

tiara ⇒ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiara">Tiara</a>

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spoon ⇒ (Informal) To engage in amorous behavior, such as kissing or caressing.

Bassorah ⇒ Basra = A port and city on the south east of Iraq.

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lign ⇒ ligni-, a prefix, meaning wood. 

nadd⇒?.

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rais ⇒ a Muslim ship's captain.

chops ⇒ jaws.

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coat o'mail ⇒ coat of mail = Knight's
armor. Mail = armor. 

foeman ⇒ enemy. 

shaft ⇒ a long spear. 

prove ⇒ (archaic) turns
out to be. 

brand ⇒ sword.

railer ⇒  One who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches.
 

the poem supplicates to the headman,
that his post is supposed to protect the protagonist, but stead doing
him harm, and if things be so, at least let him go: “Stand clear, and
succor neither these nor those!”

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cuffed ⇒ slap.  

suffer ⇒ permit, allow.  

thereanent ⇒ with reference to that matter, subject, or affair.

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list⇒ to be pleasing to; suit. “Do as thou list” means do what you like.

santon ⇒ a saint in Muslim conutries.

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clove ⇒ cleave. 

asunder ⇒ apart.

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baste ⇒ thrash. 

ribroasting ⇒ (archaic) thrash.

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crock⇒soil, soot, smut. 

kazis⇒?

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coursing ⇒ move swiftly over; hunt.

wot ⇒ archaic. Past of wit, to know.


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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbadoes">Barbadoes</a> = 
A independent island nation located at the east of the Caribbean Sea. (top of South America)

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeward_Islands">Leeward Islands</a>.
<a href="../../kml/Barbadoes.kml" title="Barbadoes">⊕</a>

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threepence ⇒ A coin worth three pennies, formerly used in Great Britain. (AHD)

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling">Shilling</a> 

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The idea of printing knowledge on food and ingesting the food to learn is fascinating. This chapter illustrated several preposterous ideas.<br><br>
With our scientific advancement today, with nano-mechanics, quantum physics, and computer, genetic engineering etc, the ideas entailed on this page remain preposterous. Swift must have made sure that these are written and presented in a way no scientific advancement will make them sensible.<br><br>
Turning shit into food? Extract sunshrine from veggies for later release for warmth? Consolidate air and put into horse's hooves so horses can run on water?
Random text generator that can generate letters of science and art? Distinguish colors by smell and touch? All these are inane.

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The House of Lords is sometimes called House of Peers. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords</a>

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishops">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishops</a>

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Wherry ⇒ small 2 person rowing boat. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wherry">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wherry</a>

Man of War ⇒ old warship. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_war">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_war</a>

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vault ⇒ a arched structure. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault">Vault</a>

Saint Paul ⇒ Saint Paul's Cathedral in London. It is one of the well-known architecture.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul's_Cathedral">St_Paul's_Cathedral</a>

Kitchen grate: the metal lattice of furnace.

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Nile, a river on north Africa continent. See: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile">Nile</a>

Ganges, a river near northen India, right below Hymalaya mountains. See: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges">Ganges</a>

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feet ⇒ 0.3048 meters.

yard⇒ 3 feet = 0.9144 meters.<br>

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train ⇒ A staff of people following in attendance; retinue. (AHD)

office ⇒ A usually beneficial act performed for another.

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†4 “… and all”. This usage seems slangy but apparently used then.

†5 snuff = a pulverized tobacco, as one form of ingesting tobacco.


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prey ⇒ one that is defenseless.

lave ⇒ To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise.

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Hector ⇒ the prime hero of Trojan War on Troy's side. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector">Hector</a>

Junius Brutus ⇒ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Junius_Brutus">Lucius Junius Brutus</a>, a kinsman of the raped girl Lucretia.

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Troy ⇒ The city of Troy was burned down at the end in Trojan War.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_War">Trojan War</a>

Nilus ⇒ God of the Nile river.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilus">Nilus</a>

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taper ⇒ a source of feeble light. (AHD)

Pyramus ⇒ Pyramus and Thisbe are lovers but cannot unite, until a unlucky day both martyred for each other. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramus">Pyramus</a>

Cocytus ⇒ the river of wailing. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocytus">Cocytus</a>

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Sit fas aut nefas ⇒ Latin: be it right or wrong. (JB)

Per Styga, per manes vehor = «“I am carried through the Stygian regions, through the realm of shades”, i.e. “I am in hell”» (JB)

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short⇒rudely brief. (AHD)

sharp⇒Fierce, impetuous, hash, severe… (AHD)

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avaunt⇒ begone; go away.

surpris'd ⇒ To attack or capture suddenly and without warning. (AHD)