Vocabulary

Liberal Party of Canada

Victoria Day (Canadian public holiday)

Boxing Day (public holiday in the UK, Australia, Canada, etc.)

Canada Day

fasting

three-cornered hat; tricorne

sputtering; smoldering

old bird

flabbily; softly; limply; easily (bend); effortlessly; flexibly

pawnshop

guilty conscience; feelings of remorse

retribution for one's crime; punishment for one's crime

to pay for one's transgression; to receive punishment for one's crime

trifle

clap (sound of wooden clappers)

to come to an end; to finish; to get fired

rounded vowel

disk; disc

disc clutch; disk clutch

park; garden

to bear a grudge

glossy

lead tree (lead or zinc in a solution of acetate of lead)

vertical circle

vertical circle

purifying salt

to hold one's nose; to pinch one's nose

soiling; polluting; being dirty

concave polygon; non-convex polygon

convex polygon

seal; stamp

right hand

force pump; forcing pump

to hang over; to cover

galley; ship's kitchen

cooking by boiling

galley stovepipe

koshinbun (type of early Meiji-era newspaper)

thought control; thought censorship

ōshinbun; type of Meiji-era newspaper characterized by its use of political commentary written in literary language