Huguenot any French Protestant of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries.
hartshorn ammonium carbonate, used in smelling salts, so called because formerly made from deer antlers.
sick-headache migraine (or any headache that causes nausea).
Sandwich Islands former name for the Hawaiian Islands.
colonizationist one who supported the abolition of slavery with concurrent colonization of Africa by freed American slaves.
arabesque a complex and elaborate decorative design of intertwined lines suggesting flowers, foliage, animals, etc.
distingue (French) having an air of distinction; distinguished.
opera-glass a small binocular telescope.
daguerreotype a photograph made by an early method on a plate of chemically treated metal.
vinaigrette a small, ornamental box or bottle with a perforated lid, for holding aromatic vinegar, smelling salts, etc.
