surreptitious secret, stealthy.
auto-eroticism masturbation.
Our Freud Huxley’s phrase. A pious reference to Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian physician and neurologist: father of psychoanalysis.
flivver a small, cheap automobile, especially an old one. Here, used respectfully to refer to Ford’s Model T.
anthrax an infectious disease of wild and domesticated animals, especially cattle and sheep, which is caused by a bacillus and can be transmitted to people.
ectogenesis the growth process of embryonic tissue placed in an artificial environment, as a test tube. Here, the conventional process of birth.
soma an intoxicating plant juice referred to in Indian religious writings. Here, Huxley’s term for a powerful calming and hallucinogenic drug without any serious side effects.
boskage a natural growth of trees or shrubs.
pneumatic inflated. Here, Huxley’s word describing a woman with a full, shapely figure.
Malthusian drill Huxley’s phrase for practicing contraception. From the word "Malthusian," referring to the theory developed by English economist Thomas Malthus (1766-1834), that the world population tends to increase faster than the food supply with inevitable disastrous results unless natural restrictions, such as war, famine, and disease, reduce the population or the increase is checked by moral restraint.
