Equinoctial occurring at or about the time of an equinox.
“pricked or ducked” references to ordeals used to identify witches, either by pricking them to see if they were insensitive or bled less than normal, or by ducking them to see if they sank (a sign of innocence) or floated (a sign of guilt).
Whickered (dialect) snickered, giggled, tittered.
Stupefaction stunned amazement or utter bewilderment.
“pillar of a cloud” from Exodus 13:21.
“that scene of Milton’s” scene from Paradise Lost, and the passage quoted (Book IX:626–631) is spoken by Eve to Satan in the form of a serpent.
Liviers lifeholders, that is, tenants whose lease ran the length of a specified number of lifetimes; by contrast, a freeholder’s heirs could retain his lease in perpetuity.
Pattens elevated, wooden soled shoes, often used for walking in mud and sometimes outfitted with an iron ring that can clink.
Superincumbent lying or resting on something else.
Stale (dialect) to urinate.
Deparked removed from their status as a park, that is, an area preserved for hunting by the aristocracy through royal decree.
Traceried having ornamental work of interlacing or branching lines, as in a Gothic window, some kinds of embroidery, etc.
“Ostium sepulchri …” Door of the tomb of the ancient family of d’Urberville (Latin).
“land of Canaan” the Promised Land.
Tole (dialect) to entice.
