wild veronica any of a genus of plants of the figwort family, with white or bluish flower spikes.
cold house a springhouse or storage shed for dairy items, meats, and other items which would spoil in a hot kitchen.
privy a toilet; esp., an outhouse.
watery field terrain flooded for the cultivation of rice.
bloody side of the Ohio River Kentucky. The Ohio River separated Kentucky, a slave state, and Ohio, a free state.
huckleberries the fruit of any of a genus of plants of the heath family, having dark-blue berries with ten large seeds.
carmine red or purplish-red; crimson.
foal to give birth to (a foal). By comparing Sethe's condition to that of a pregnant mare, Amy reveals white prejudice about blacks, whom owners treated like brood animals so that their offspring, like foals or piglets or calves, could be reared for labor or for market.
lisle a fabric, or stockings, gloves, etc., knit or woven of lisle, a fine, hard, extra-strong cotton thread.
molly apple the wild fruit of a perennial woodland plant of the barberry family, with shield-shaped leaves and a single, large, white, cuplike flower.
glazing the work of a glazier in fitting windows, etc. with glass.
