Chapter 8: Toad’s Adventures

Vocabulary

Immured: Enclose or confine (someone) against their will.
Noisome: Disagreeable; unpleasant.
Antimacassar: A piece of cloth put over the back of a chair to protect it from grease and dirt or as an ornament.
Piebald: Having irregular patches of two colors, typically black and white.
Bubble-and-squeak: Cooked cabbage fried with cooked potatoes and often meat.
Snap-dragon: A plant bearing spikes of brightly colored two-lobed flowers that gape like a mouth when a bee lands on the curved lip.
Ramble: Walk for pleasure, typically without a definite route.
Sanguine: Optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.
Sovereign: A supreme ruler, especially a monarch.
Chaff: Lighthearted joking; banter.
Halberd: A combined spear and battle-ax.
Night-jar: A gray-brown nocturnal insectivorous bird with a distinctive call.