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264 NOTES AND MEANINGS.
35. ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.
Elegy, a funeral song.
5 Clarion, note; a truropet with a
loud, clear sound.
7 Glebe, soil ; land for cultivating.
9 Heraldry, a kn owledge of th e
coats of arms and history of
noble fam ilies.
Inevitable. certain; t ha t cannot
be avoided.
11 Storied, bearing a story or in ­
scription.
Urn, a vessel for holding th e
ashes of th e dead .
Animat ed, lifelike .
13 Penury, poverty; wa nt.
15 Hampden. J ohn (1594- 1643), a
famous patriot, who was tried
in I G36 for resisting t he pay ­
men t of ship -mone y.
17 Circumscribed. confined .
IS Ingenuous. fra nk; honourable.
19 Sequestered, retired.
Tenor, course.
20 Uncouth, rough.
21 Unlettered, uneducated.
22 Precincts, regions ; boundaries.
29 Dirges, fun eral chants.
Epitaph, inscription on a tomb .
8 Verst, a Ru ssian measure of
len gt h, almost tw o-thirds of an
E nglish m ile.
D Mechanically, in a m achine-lik e
way,
36. A TEA-CARAVAN.
7 Frontier, herder ; th e part of a
country th at [routs or faces
anoth er.
S Consignment, goods ent rusted to
one for sale.
5 Congealed, froz e; turned into
ice.
6 MIniature, small.
Boulevard, bro ad prom enad e or
st reet whi ch occu pies th e site
37. ACROSS LAKE BAIKAL.
of demoli shed fortificati ons (as
the French name impli es).
7 Abyss , chasm ; bottomless pit.
Fascination, spell; act of workin g
on by a charm,
38. THE WORLD BEFORE COLUMBUS.
2 Barrier, o ustacle; bar ; somet hing
stopping t he way.
Christendom, t hat part of th e
world whi ch has become Christi
an.
Mohammed (570-632 A.D.), th e
found er of the M ohammedan
religion.
Ii Latin races, races of sout hern
E urope, akin to th e inhabitants
of Italy .
5 Germanic races, races of northern
E urope, akin to th e inh abit an ts
of German y. [peoples.
Barbarfans, Ravages : uncivilized
7 Inadequate, insufficient; not
equal to what is wanted.
9 Cumbrous. clumsy; un wieldy.