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1. casern<\/strong> \u2014 garrison lodging, barracks<\/p>\n

I tied my horse to one of the pillars holding up a sort of porch roof before the unimpressive <\/em>casern of the Trebitsch regiment, for I saw no stables.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. gangrel<\/strong> \u2014 [Scots<\/em>] tramp, vagabond; gangling person<\/p>\n

“Don’t try to cheer me with your <\/em>gangrel wisdom, for I’ve known house and home and\u2014aye\u2014family too, a loving wife and two children who would weep to see their father reduced to this state.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. Glagolitic<\/strong> \u2014 now unused alphabet used for certain old Slavic languages<\/p>\n

The words in the painting, however, were written in <\/em>Glagolitic characters, and though I could puzzle out some of the letters which had similarity to the Cyrillic, I could make no guess at what sounds many of the strange curvy shapes might represent.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. leaguer<\/strong> \u2014 siege; one who besieges<\/p>\n

Preparations for the <\/em>leaguer of Stuymesand continued apace, and everywhere I saw men felling the tall trees of the peninsula, shaping them into fell engines of war.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. scalene<\/strong> \u2014 [mathematics<\/em>] having sides of unequal length<\/p>\n

The production of a six-sided <\/em>scalene pyramid from the rhomboid is left as an exercise for the reader.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. laund<\/strong> \u2014 glade, grassy pasture amidst woods<\/p>\n

There among the saplings bordering the <\/em>laund of sedge, they spied their quarry, the sly fox standing alert yet apparently unconcerned.<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. must<\/strong> \u2014 new wine, not yet fermented fruit juice<\/p>\n

Only a few handfuls of <\/em>must remained now at the bottom of the damaged vats.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. semiosic<\/strong> \u2014 of or related to semiotics<\/p>\n

Though we had been told very clearly to fix firmly the <\/em>semiosic plane before moving on to the mimetic plane, Hodges was sick of the whole thing and punched a hole right through the physical plane of the painting.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. furlong<\/strong> \u2014 220 yards, 1\/8 of a mile<\/p>\n

And then the two great armies stopped still, with perhaps only a single <\/em>furlong separating the vanguards of the mighty horsemen.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. abaft<\/strong> \u2014 aft of, behind; towards the rear<\/p>\n

<\/em>Abaft the cargo hold was the single barrel of fresh water aboard, filled with slimy grossnesses of which it was best not to think as you swallowed.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. casern \u2014 garrison lodging, barracks I tied my horse to one of the pillars holding up a sort of porch roof before the unimpressive casern of the Trebitsch regiment, for I saw no stables.   2. gangrel \u2014 [Scots] tramp, vagabond; gangling person “Don’t try to cheer me with your gangrel wisdom, for I’ve … <\/p>\n

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