[65] _Salisbury Steeple_: this is about four hundred feet high.
[66] _Battalia_: the order of battle.
[67] _Espalier_: a lattice upon which fruit-trees or shrubs are
trained.
[68] _Scull_: a short oar.
[69] _Starboard or larboard_: right or left.
[70] _Corking-pin_: a larger-sized pin.
[71] _Stomacher_: a broad belt.
[72] _Varlet_: knave.
[73] _Levee_: a ceremonious visit received by a distinguished person
in the morning.
[74] _Spinet_: a stringed instrument, a forerunner of out piano.
[75] _Closet_: private room.
[76] _Signal_: memorable.
[77] _Chancery_: a high court of equity.
[78] _Glossing_: commenting.
[79] _Dionysius of Halicarnassus_ was born about the middle of the
first century, B.C.; he endeavored in his history to relieve his Greek
countrymen from the mortification they had felt in their subjection to
the Romans, and patched up an old legend about Rome being of Greek
origin and therefore their "political mother."
[80] _Ideas, entities, abstractions, transcendentals_, words used in
that philosophy which deals with thinking, existence, and things
beyond the senses.
[81] _Mercurial_: active, spirited.
[82] _Composition_: compact, agreement.
[83] _Progress_: an old term for the travelling of the sovereign to
different parts of his country.
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