ej Slang for a fool or simpleton.
ek Colloquial phrase meaning they did not turn the slightest degree pale.
el Silly, stupid people.
em Fireflies; lightning bugs.
en Exhausted.
eo Steal.
ep Deficit; amount of money owed or short of what is necessary.
eq A rapid, noisy talk.
er Moderation in or abstinence from drinking alcohol.
es Huck combines yelling and elocution, the art of public speaking.
et A sleazy bar.
eu Huck cleverly uses the stereotyped view of the black slave—as horrifically violent, even against a child—to lend an air of authenticity to his tale.
ev Barrel of lye and ashes for making soap.
ew The steamboat’s cylindrical chamber in which the steam acts upon the piston.
ex The head of a common bolt or metal pin, like a screw’s head.
ey Audacious; bold.
ez Seneschal; an official of a medieval noble to whom great authority over household matters was entrusted.
fa Languedoc, a region and former province in southern France.
fb The kingdom to which Henry IV escaped from England.
fc The hero of The Man in the Iron Mask (serialized 1848-1850), by Alexandre Dumas the Elder (1802-1870).
fd The luminescence that certain fungi cause in decaying wood.
fe Chateau d‘If, in The Count of Monte Cristo (1845, translated 1846), by Alexandre Dumas the Elder.
ff Steal.
fg Large kitchen knives.
fh Counterpane; bedspread.
fi Pouring out in a rush of liquid.
fj Characters from William Harrison Ainsworth’s romance The Tower of London (1840).
fk A popular expression of the time that actually means “the more haste, the less action.”
fl Stalks of a coarse, woolly, tall, yellow flower.
fm Stupid; a mullet is a freshwater fish with a large, flat head.
fn Reputedly the last words of King Louis XVI of France.
fo A state of despondent abstraction or musing.
fp The Devil.
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