Eggp’s Reviews > Tom Jones > Status Update

Wiki: "I’ll sooner ge my Esteate to the zinking Fund, that it may be sent to Hannover to corrupt our Nation with."

Wiki: "As when two Doves, or two Wood-pigeons, or as when Strephon and Phyllis (for that comes nearest to the Mark) are retired into some pleasant solitary Grove..."

Wiki: "In a third Place stood the said Thwackum, like King Porus, sullenly submitting to the Conqueror."

Word: "...where Mrs. Honour and the Hartshorn were summoned to her Assistance."

1. The horn or antler of a hart; the substance obtained by rasping, slicing, or calcining the horns of harts, formerly the chief source of ammonia.

2. spirit of hartshorn: the aqueous solution of ammonia. salt of hartshorn: carbonate of ammonia; smelling salts.

Word: "...and a certain liquorish Part of natural Philosophy is often the principal Subject of their Conversation."

1. Pleasant to the palate; gen. sweet, tempting, attractive

2. Of persons, etc.: Fond of delicious fare
  b. gen. and fig. Eagerly desirous, longing, greedy

3. Lecherous, lustful

Word/Wiki: "...was a little too apt to indulge that Kind of Pleasantry which is generally called Rhodomontade..."

1. A vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful or arrogant saying or speech.

Rodomontade > Rodomonte