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by Lynn Viehl


  Torian Glossary

  abstainers: religious agnostics

  across the pond: When in Toriana, a reference to Great Britain or Europe; when in Great Britain or Europe a reference to Toriana (“pond” being the Atlantic Ocean)

  aid-solicitor: legal representative provided by the Crown to defendants who can’t afford to hire a barrister

  ambrotype: photography that uses chemicals (silverblack) to etch images on glass plate negatives

  animech: mechanized animals

  annum: year

  apothecary: pharmacy

  Aramantha: the island homeland of the Aramanthan, destroyed by mysterious forces which caused it to break up and sink beneath the sea

  Aramanthans: a race of superhuman magic practitioners who ruled the world before the rise of mankind

  bacco: tobacco

  barrister: attorney

  bathboy: a male attendant/masseur who works at public baths for women

  beater: a uniformed police officer who patrols the streets, usually on foot

  believer: someone who believes in magic

  belowground: beneath street level

  binding: a stone or other object that can contain psychic energy until its release is triggered by touch or proximity

  black: very strong, thrice-brewed tea

  blackpot: a coal-fueled boiler

  blacks: formal suit worn by high-class male servants

  Blind my Cupid: an vulgar exclamation of amazement and disbelief

  bloodbane: one of the highly toxic magic poisons used in snuffballs

  blower: a chamber that uses air leeched from the city’s tubes to dry wet items

  blue ruin: gin

  blues: people of aristocratic birth

  bookmaker: printer

  braves: warrior class of native Torian people

  BrewsMaid: an automatic tea maker

  brickie: a bricklayer

  bronze, bronzen: a theatrical cosmetic that temporarily darkens the skin

  brown: Talian currency

  bruiser: a large or physically intimidating man; thug

  bucks: clothing made of buckskin

  bum: ass

  calendula: an herbal tincture used as a topical disinfectant

  care kit: first-aid kit

  carri: steam-driven carriage

  carriwright: maker of steam-driven carriages

  cartlass: a girl or woman who sells food and/or beverages from a portable cart on the street

  cashsafe: a hidden, locking recess in a private home where money and other valuables are kept

  catchall: an extending/grasping device with a pinchers at one end

  Church: the Torianglican Church, the only religion recognized and approved by the Crown; the Church of England

  clearstone: quartz

  clopboard: building siding made of planks recovered from abandoned horse barns

  coal burner: engine that runs on coal

  coddles: cod cut into chunks

  coin: money

  collar: vicar

  commoner: an ordinary, untitled individual; someone of low birth

  conciliator: mediator

  cosh: bludgeon

  crispie: potato chip

  croke: croquet

  Crown, the: the English monarchy as well as its authority over Toriana

  crowswalk: a viewing deck that encircles the upper portion of a building

  dear: costly

  deathmage: magical practitioner licensed to kill

  deb: debutante

  detector: a magic practitioner (generally employed by the court) who uses touch to discern truthfulness

  digger: miner

  dink: a small or short man

  dipper: strip of treated paper that changes color when exposed to poison or drugs

  drawers: underwear

  drips: syphilis

  Druuds: mortal magic practitioners who captured and imprisoned the Aramanthans to end the mage wars

  ducklings: children

  echo: device used to detect hidden objects

  elshy: hellchild

  entitlement: inheritance of title and property

  exormage: exorcist who nullifies curses and rids people and places of demon infestation

  faeriestale: fantasy stories told to children

  fete teller: the humblest of fortune-tellers who set up tents at village fetes to do many readings for very little money

  fichu: a shoulder wrap, usually made of lace

  firebrigader: firefighter

  fishncrisp: a shop that sells fish fillets fried together with potatoes cut in various shapes

  flat: apartment

  flathouse: a building that has been divided up into flats

  Fleers: remnant members of the American rebel forces who fled west after losing the war to England

  flystick: a clear glass rod containing live lightning bugs, used like a flashlight or lantern

  foundling: abandoned orphan

  freeclaiming: a social practice caused by the shortage of women among the original colonies, which allowed men to kidnap and hold captive unprotected or abandoned women

  freedman: ex-convict

  fry bread: bread fried in bacon drippings

  furrin, furriners: slang for foreign, foreigners

  garms: garments

  gaslamp: exterior lighting powered by natural gas

  gel: girl (common, casual, generally used to refer to females of the merchant class)

  get the sack: be fired

  gildstone: marble

  ginger: woman with red hair

  glass: common term for ambrotype glass plate negative

  glassed: photographed

  glasshield: windshield

  glassies, glassines: protective, preservative glass coatings applied to documents

  glasslung: terminal respiratory disease caused by inhaling sparkglass; suffered by painters and construction workers

  gogs: protective eyewear

  goldstone: building made of blocks of pyrite-flecked granite

  gone off: suffered a mental breakdown

  gowners: dressmakers who specialize in creating gowns for wealthy society women

  gravecart: hearse

  Great Uprising, the: Toriana’s name for the failed revolutionary war against England

  Great War, the: Toriana’s version of WWI

  hair grips: bobby pins

  hatch drop: manhole access to underground tunnels

  hellchild: a child believed to be demon-possessed and therefore impervious to magic

  Herself: slang term for the queen of England

  hidey-holes: small, concealed places in houses for people to hide in or use to spy on someone

  Hill, the: an area of Rumsen where most of the wealthy and titled reside

  H.M.: abbreviation for Her Majesty

  hothead: woman with red hair

  illuminator: a device that works like a primitive film projector

  Independence: freedom from English rule

  johnnies: men who hire prostitutes

  keep safe footing: to be cautious or conservative

  keroseel: a combination of seal, whale, or fish oil and kerosene

  keyfob: a chain-and-loop key ring, carried by men

  keylace: a ribbon key ring, worn around a woman’s wrist

  kipbag: mesh tote

  kneecappers: criminal enforcers who use clubs to shatter the knees of their victims

  knickers: underwear

  lampflies: fireflies

  lass: girl (affectionate, proper)

  lav: lavatory

  loo: toilet

  loomgel: a girl or woman who works in a menial position at a textile factory

  loomworks: textile factory

  loon: a mentally disturbed person

  loon herder: an orderly at an asylum

  loonhouse: asylum for the mentally disturbed

  Lost Timers: brigades of English and Italian soldiers who became lost in the Bréchéliant
forest and were there possessed by Aramanthan spirits

  lungfever: slang for influenza

  mage: magic practitioner

  magis, magistrate: judge

  maiden night: the first time a virginal woman has sex with her husband; term often used for betting purposes by men who want to break an engagement

  mariners: sailors

  matchit: a disposable, one-use lighter

  mate: friend

  mech: a mechanic; anything mechanical

  mechworks: mechanical rooms

  mercantile: a shop selling some variety of merchandise

  Middleway: industrial Torian city located on the Great Lakes; also called Middy

  mixpot: mixing bowl

  mole: city underground worker

  nappy: diaper, women’s panties

  navyman: a current or former member of H.M.’s naval forces

  necktwister: assassin

  negli: negligee

  netherside: the spirit world, invisible to ordinary mortals; the source of magic power

  new industry: the beginning of the industrial age in Toriana

  New Parliament: governing body of Torian officials who petition the Crown and enforce the Queen’s legislation; the Torian version of Congress

  nightstone: a semiprecious mineral used to contain the spirits of long-dead mages and Aramanthan wizards

  Nihon: Japan, Japanese

  nits: head lice

  nobber: private security guard hired by Hill residents to patrol their streets and keep out any undesirables

  Norders: people from the North of England

  nozzer: nose; a face mask used with a portable oxygen tank

  nudie: a flesh-colored garment worn to give the illusion of nudity under a semitransparent gown or overgarment

  Occupancy, the: a period of thirty years after the Rebellion failed during which Toriana was occupied by English troops and governed by martial law

  on the stroll: working on the streets (said of prostitutes)

  pain powder: a mild opiate or analgesic

  partymage: a magic practitioner who uses his power to entertain

  pasturelands: farmlands

  penders: suspenders

  physick: doctor

  piesafe: kitchen cabinet where food is stored

  pin minder: a dresser or vanity stand that holds hairpins and hat pins

  piper: plumber

  pong: stink

  portents: predictions or signs of future events

  portints: portraits made from ambrotype photographs that are hand-painted to colorize

  posh, posher: wealthy aristocrat

  poxbox: diseased prostitute

  prayerhouse: the Fleers’ religious gathering places

  privy: restroom

  prodder: iron fireplace poker

  prommy: the promenade in the city’s central park used by horseback riders and carris

  pyre: crematorium

  queensland, the: England

  Queen’s Voice, The: the Crown’s official newspaper

  questioning: police interrogation at New Scotland Yard

  rasher: strip of bacon

  Reapers: a secret society comprising important political, business, and social figures in Talia; enemies of the Tillers.

  red joy, ruddy joy: opium

  redcoats: English militia

  redstone: brick

  reticule: purse

  rondella: an automated carousel-type apparatus

  rotagears: gears that drive a rotational device

  rounder: a rubber carri tire

  rub: massage

  Rumsen: major city on the west coast of Toriana, roughly equivalent to San Francisco in the United States

  satchel: tote bag carried by women

  scrabbler: a person who makes a living by scavenging

  scram: salvage

  seeing: an act by a fortune-teller of predicting a client’s future

  seeking: an act by a fortune-teller of finding someone or something

  Settle: Seattle

  shaman: a native Torian holy man

  shelfairs: aerated shelving, usually for books

  shopkeep: shop proprietor

  short sheet: a hastily printed, illegal daily list of horse races and other events for the purpose of placing bets

  silverblack: chemicals used to etch photographed images on ambrotype plates

  skip: boat

  Skirmish, the: a recent, brief naval conflict between England and Spain

  slaterow: a row house with slate shingles

  snuff: kill

  snuffballs: hollow glass spheres filled with magically enhanced poisons like bloodbane that kill on contact, used like grenades

  snuffmages: mage assassins who generally work in teams of two

  Son, the: Jesus Christ

  soother: chamomile herbal infusion, usually added to tea, to relax, relieve stress, and help with insomnia

  Southern Church: a Baptist version of Church of England, begun in the southern provinces of Toriana, tolerated by traditionalists

  sparkglass: a substance made of various minerals such as mica, galena, and silica that have been ground to a fine dust and mixed with exterior paint in order to create sparkle

  spellcraft: the methods and materials used by magic practitioners to cast spells

  squawks: slur for native Torian females

  stones: testicles

  streaky: a carri’s copper sideboards from which the black paint is wearing off or has been stripped off to simulate wear

  strumpet: prostitute

  sweet Mary: Mary, mother of Jesus

  sweets: candy

  switch: wig

  Talia, Talian: The Torian universe’s version of Italy, Italians

  teaheart: heart-shaped infuser

  tealass: a girl or woman who sells hot tea and cakes in a café or from a street cart

  teller: fortune-teller

  tenner: ten-pound note

  Tillers: a secret society comprising important political, business, and social figures; enemies of the Reapers

  timepiece: watch

  tinnery: a factory where fresh fish and other perishables are processed and canned in tin containers

  tint: a paper-copy image printed from an ambrotype glass plate; makeup used to redden cheeks and lips

  tinter: device used to imprint images on ambrotype glass plates

  tintest: a professional ambrotype plate developer and tint maker

  to let: available for rent

  tonners: members of high society

  Toriana: short name for Provincial Union of Victoriana, the alternate-history name for the United States

  tosser: a drunk

  trade: business

  trolling: looking for work

  trunch: a wooden baton carried by beaters

  tubes: a system of pneumatic pipes that deliver goods and food across the city

  tunneler: an underground city worker who polices the subsurface tunnels and keeps the city’s tube in operation

  understair: belowground level of building; cellar or basement

  unjammer: a mechanical snakelike device used to unblock tubes

  uptoppers: above street level

  vermage: a mage who specializes in magical extermination of rodents and other vermin

  vicar: priest of the Torianglican Church

  waders: thigh-high protective rubber boots

  waister: a wide cummerbund-type belt made of fabric that females wear around their waists to cover the joining of skirts and bodices

  warders: magic practitioners who create protective charms and spells to protect people, possessions, and property

  wardling: an object used as a protective charm

  warren: a tunneler’s assigned work area

  watershed: raincoat

  Welshires: people from Wales

  whitecart: horse-drawn conveyance used to transport the wounded to hospital or the mentally disturbed to asylum

  wi
chcart: a street cart that sells sandwiches

  willowbark: herbal remedy for headaches and hangovers (equivalent to aspirin)

  winge: slang for an older, grouchy person

  Yard, the: short name for New Scotland Yard

  zoopraxiscope: a device that uses images on glass disks as the first form of stop-motion projection

  Since 2000, author LYNN VIEHL has published over fifty novels in nine genres, including her New York Times bestselling Darkyn series, the StarDoc SF series (as S. L. Viehl), and the Tales from Grace Chapel Inn series (as Rebecca Kelly). Ranked as one of the top one hundred female, top fifty book, and top ten SF author bloggers on the Internet, Ms. Viehl hosts Paperback Writer, a popular industry weblog she has updated daily since 2004 with free market info, working advice, and online resources for all writers.

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