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Fever 1793
Term | Definition |
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Droned | To make continuous low humming sound |
Abhorred | Disgust and hatred |
Quakers | People who belong to the Religious Society of Friends |
Victuals | Food |
Disreputable | Not considered to be respectable in character or appearance |
Apothecary | A medical professional who creates and dispenses medicine,Pharmacist |
Miasma | Unpleasant smell |
Bilious | Affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting |
Loitering | Stand or wait around without apparent purpose |
Impudence | not showing respect to another person |
Oppressively | extreme and unpleasant |
Valise | A small traveling bag or suitcase |
Regimental | Relating to a military regiment |
Mason | A skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick) |
Glaziers | A person whose profession is fitting glass into windows and doors |
Scullery Maid | A female servant in a large house who did jobs such as wahing dishes and preparing vegetables |
Fractious | Irritable and quarrelsome |
Cajoling | Persuade (someone) to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery |
Odiferous | having or giving of a smell,especially an unpleasant or distinctive |
Destitute | without the basic necessities of life |
Abates | cause to become smaller orels intense |
Yellow Fever | A viral disease that is transmitted to humans by the bites of infected mosquitoes |
Salvage | To save from destruction,damage,or loss |
Assured | confident |
Dote | Give a lot of love or attention |
Methodically | In an orderly and systematic manner |
Improvised | Created and performed without preparation |
Famished | Extremely hungry |
Exorbitant | Unreasonably high |
Shroud | A length of cloth in which a dead person is wrapped of burial |
Relish | Great Enjoyment |
Prohibited | forbid by law or rule |
Obligation | a duty or commitment |
melancholy | sadness/depression of mind/spirit |
putrid | decaying or rotting |
ominous | menacing or threatening |
fermenting | inciting or stirring up |
fetid | smelling extremely unpleasant |
scurrilous | insulting |
cooperage | a business where wooden barrels are made |
quill | pen made from a feather of a large bird |
rapscallions | mischievous persons |