Vocabulary

celadon porcelain

reputation; fame

vacation request; request for leave of absence

peaceful; quiet; tranquility; tranquillity

saints and sages

diligence; good attendance

energy; vitality; mental determination

request for instructions

comparing heights; comparison of statures

Puritan

youth; adolescence

scouring; degumming

vow; oath; pledge

spinning; silk reeling; filature

occultation (by the Moon)

fineness or coarseness; minuteness or roughness

blue sky

subjugation; conquest

refined sugar; sugar refining

barometer

essential oil; volatile oil

sitting calmly and quietly (i.e. in order to meditate)

manufacturing industry

manufacturer; maker

reluctance to part; sorrow at parting

cough medicine; cough syrup; cough lozenge

deep-rooted evil

seating order; precedence

old times; antiquity; former years

shigella (dysentery bacillus)

separation; deposition; precipitation

(coal) cinders

limewater

instruments of torture

being in delicate health; scrofulosis

academic predecessor; scholars of the past; senior scholar

alluvial fan or delta

perforation; punching; boring; drilling

distinguished war service; merit of war

scarlet; bright red