Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fic - Joseph Conrad [139]
bz
224 pounds; a stone is a British unit of weight equivalent to 14 pounds.
ca
Leopoldville, now Kinshasa.
cb
Sailor.
cc
Hardwood spears, usually iron-tipped.
cd
Bunglers.
ce
Evil spirit to whom the legendary Faust sells his soul; used here to mean a fiendish person.
cf
Table napkin.
cg
Large prehistoric reptile.
ch
Name of a mythical country of fabulous riches believed by sixteenth-century explorers to be located in South America.
ci
Abbreviation for confabulation; discussion.
cj
The manager’s uncle and his gang.
ck
Sound made by the blades of the paddle wheel (at the ship’s rear) making contact with the water.
cl
Members of the crew who cut wood as fuel for the steamship.
cm
Crewman responsible for stoking and monitoring the fire in the ship’s boiler.
cn
Stanley Falls, now Kisangani; the furthest navigable point upriver on the Congo.
co
For the steamship’s boiler.
cp
Elliptical or abbreviated language, as in a telegram.
cq
Devices for applying or increasing power, such as ropes and pulleys.
cr
Secret code.
cs
Gradually released.
ct
Breech-loading rifles.
cu
Sharply turned the ship.
cv
Pole used to gauge the water’s depth.
cw
Large, flat-bottomed boat used for hauling bulk materials.
cx
Another type of breech-loading rifle.
cy
Numerous shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession.
cz
Devil.
da
Guns.
db
Both “shade” and “wraith” mean ghost, or apparition.
dc
Possibly human sacrifices, although the phrase is sufficiently ambiguous to suggest other meanings.
dd
Incompetent person.
de
Red-haired.
df
In some forms of comedy and pantomime, a buffoon who typically dresses in multicolored clothing.
dg
A cotton or linen fabric.
dh
Region and city in western Russia, southeast of Moscow.
di
Multicolored dress of a professional fool or jester.
dj
The binoculars Marlow has alluded to earlier in the paragraph.
dk
Food appropriate to be eaten by an ill person.
dl
Short rifle that can be fired several times without having to be reloaded after each shot.
dm
From Marlow’s aunt’s friends, who have represented him as an idealistic missionary.
dn
Ivory that has been buried in the ground, as Marlow has earlier observed.
do
Long, loose overcoat, originally made in Ulster, Ireland.
dp
Soil.
dq
Ancient.
dr
Steal.
ds
Stone coffin.
dt
Family.
du
Rustling.
dv
Pebbles.
dw
Two-wheeled carriage.
dx
Resisting being controlled by the reins attached to the bit in his mouth.
dy
Person who grazes cattle; more broadly, a rancher.
dz
Grove.
ea
Steps for passing over a fence or wall.
eb
Protective barrier.
ec
Corpses of the other people who had been on the ship.
ed
Bend in a coast that forms a bay.
ee
Part of the River Elbe that flows into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, Germany, northwest of Hamburg.
ef
Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic order founded at Mount Carmel in the twelfth century.
eg
Ship masts and yards.
eh
Wood siding; horizontal boards serving as weatherproofing.
ei
Furnaces used for reducing limestone or shells to lime.
ej
Baby carriage.
ek
Long mountain range in central and eastern Europe.
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Slavic.
em
Stout poles on a ship, such as those used to support rigging.
en
In or toward the middle of a ship.
eo
Wicker sleds.
ep
Flat-bottomed fishing boat.
eq
Farmyard or enclosure where piles of hay, corn, etc., are stored.
er
Monastic or monkish.
es
Bed of straw.
et
Member of the Church of England.
eu
Small pieces of cloth worn on the chest and back by some Roman Catholics.
ev
A hussar is a cavalry soldier, and a dolman the jacket he typically wears.
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Attempted.
ex
Surface at the back or side of a fireplace.
ey
Carriage.
ez
Former name of the Chao Phraya River, which flows through Bangkok into the Gulf of Siam (now Gulf of Thailand).
fa
Paknam is a Siamese port; a pagoda is a tall East Asian tower that serves as a temple or memorial.
fb
Cabin.
fc
Unfamiliarity (that is, with the ship and its crew).
fd
Range of perception.
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Compass stand.
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posts used for fastening cable at the foremast.