Van Diemen's Island former name for Tasmania.
varlet a scoundrel; knave.
veracity habitual truthfulness; honesty.
wattled built with wattles, a sort of woven work made of sticks intertwined with twigs or branches.
wen a benign skin tumor, especially of the scalp, consisting of a fatty cyst.
wherry a light rowboat used on rivers.
young princes of the blood the nobility; here, meaning the succession of royalty.
