a Lamp in which oil is pumped through the wick tube by clockwork; named after French inventor Bertrand Carcel (1750-1812).
b Set of columns surrounding a building or enclosing a court.
c Woman’s head scarf, made of lace or crochet.
d American country dance in which partners face each other in parallel lines.
e Town in southwestern Connecticut with a population of about 11,000 in the 1880s.
f Orion: constellation of stars east of the constellation Taurus on the equator; Alde baran : red star of the first magnitude in Taurus; the Pleiades: cluster of stars in Taurus.
g Small, one-horse sleigh.
h City in western Massachusetts, located in the Connecticut River Valley at the hub of regional routes between New York and Boston.
i Deciduous, thick-stemmed climbing plant (Clematis vitalba) that often grows on hedges, fences, and trellises.
k Star of the constellation Canis Major, also called the Dog Star; the brightest star in the sky.
l Queen’s Counsel; barrister (attorney) who serves as counsel to the queen.
m Eyeglasses clipped to the nose by a spring.
n Misunderstood wife (French).
p Codes regulating standards of dress.
q Area of southern England; home to such historic sites as Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral.
r In a style associated with the reign of King James I, who ruled Great Britain from 1603 to 1625.
s Moving a square, flat-bottomed boat, called a punt, with a long pole.
t Bell tower, usually freestanding, near a church.
u Japanese hangings or scrolls made of silk or paper.
v Rococo style of furniture named after English cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779).
w Relating to the river Styx, principal river of the underworld in classical mythology.
y Style of architecture that prevailed in England during the reign of the royal house of Tudor (1485-1603).
aa Windows divided by vertical bars.
ab Hilly, treeless uplands.
ad Relating to a style characteristic of the reigns of Kings George I, II, III, and IV of England (1714-1830).
ae Trained to grow flat against a wall or trellis.
af Small house or cottage.
ag Town in southern England.
ah Monastic; relating to the order of Saint Benedict, founded c.530.
ai Very dark or gloomy; the Cimmerians, described by the ancient Greek poet Homer, were a legendary people living in a land of perpetual darkness.
aj Let there be light (Latin).
ak Cassiopeia: northern constellation named for Andromeda’s mother in classical mythology; the Southern Cross: constellation whose four brightest stars form the shape of a cross; visible only from the Southern Hemisphere.
al In Greek mythology, Psyche is a princess loved by Cupid; often represented as a butterfly, she is a symbol of the human soul. (In ancient Greece, the word psyche meant both “butterfly” and “soul.”)
am Out of whole cloth (French).
an Work bv English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820-1903).
ao Karl Marx (1818-1883): German socialist philosopher; Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941): French humanistic philosopher; “Confessions of St. Augustine”: spiritual record of the fifth-century Church Father; Mendelism: theory of heredity developed by Austrian scientist Gregor Mendel (1822-1884).
ap William Wordsworth (1770-1850): English Romantic poet; Paul Verlaine (1844-1896): French Symbolist poet.
aq James A. Froude (1818-1894): writer and historian at Oxford University.