Billy Bud, Sailor Herman Melville

1. Billy Bud, SailorHerman Melville Interactive Dictionary By: Shea Przywieczerski

2. Index Demur 23 Visage Pallid 24 Shrewd Wizened 25 Annul 26 Erectness Dubieties 27 Twain Clerical 28 Disquietude 29 Yeoman Mania 18 30 19 Incog. 31 20 Reiteration 21 32 Bulwarks 22 Austerity 33 34 35 (Click on a word)

3. Demur Sentence: To the surprise of the ships company, though much to the lieutenants satisfaction, Billy made no demur. Pg. 6 Definition: the act of making objection. Part of Speech: Noun Next Index

4. Pallid Sentence: On Claggart’s always pallid complexion, thick black blood was now oozing from nostril and ear. Pg. 83 Part of Speech: Adjective Definition: pale; faint or deficient in color Next Back Index

5. Shrewd Sentence: Yes, shrewd ones may so think. Part of Speech: Adjective Pg. 69 Definition: Bad, malicious. Next Back Index

6. Erectness Sentence: Regaining erectness, Captain Vere with one hand covering his face stood to all appearance as impassive as the object at his feet. Part of Speech: Adjective Pg. 82 Definition: Upright in position or posture Next Back Index

7. Twain Sentence: The twain raised the felled one from the loins up into a sitting position. Pg. 82 Definition: Two Part of Speech: Noun Next Back Index

8. Disquietude Sentence: Full of disquietude and misgiving, the surgeon left the cabin. Pg. 85 Definition: Uneasiness. Part of Speech: Noun Next Back Index

9. Mania Sentence: Now something such an one was Claggart, in whom was the mania of an evil nature, engendered by vicious trading or corrupting books or licentious living, but born with him innate, in short “a depravity according to nature.” Pg. 49 Definition: mental illness marked by periods of great excitement, euphoria, delusions, and over activity. Part of Speech: Noun Next Back Index

10. Incog. Sentence: But his general aspect and manner were so suggestive of an education and career incongruous with his naval function that when not actively engaged in it he looked like a man of high quality, social and moral, who for reasons of his own he was keeping incog. Pg. 33 Definition: short for incognito- having one's true identity concealed Part of Speech: Adverb Next Back Index

11. Reiteration Sentence: Such reiteration , along with the manner of iy, incomprehensible to a novice, disturbed Billy almost as much as the mystery for which he had sought explanation. Pg. 42 Definition: To say or do again or repeatedly Part of Speech: Verb Next Back Index

12. Bulwarks Sentence: ; the twain, silent for the most part, sitting together on the deck, their heads propped against the bulwarks. Pg. 62 Definition: Any protection against external danger, injury, or annoyance Part of Speech: Noun Next Back Index

13. Austerity Sentence: The spirit that ‘spite its philosophic austerity may yet have indulged in the most secret of passion, ambitions, never attained to the fullness of fame. Pg. 123 Definition: Severe in manner or appearance Part of Speech: Adjective Next Back Index

14. Visage Sentence: Pinching and shriveling the visage into the momentary semblance of a wrinkled walnut. Pg. 67 Definition: A person’s face. Part of Speech: Noun Next Back Index

15. Wizened Sentence: His wizened face, time-tined and weather-stained to the complexion of an antique parchment, was here and there peppered blue by the chance explosion of a gun cartridge in action. Pg. 40 Definition: To have become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality. Part of Speech: Adjective Next Back Index

16. Annul Planets: Sentence: With no power to annul the element evil in him, though readily enough he could hide it; Pg. 52 Definition: To say officially that something is no longer valid Part of Speech: Transitive verb Next Back Index

17. Dubieties Sentence: Yet now as to Claggart and what was really going on in him his feeling partook less of intuitional convection than of strong suspicion clogged by strange dubieties. Pg. 77 Definition: A usually hesitant uncertain or dought that tends to cause vacillation. Part of Speech: Noun Next Back Index

18. Clerical Sentence: And this sailor way of taking clerical discourse is not wholly unlike the way in which the primer of Christianity, full of transcendent miracles, was received long ago on tropic isles by any superior savage, so called---a Tahitian, say of Captain Cook’s time or shortly after that time. Pg. 111 Definition: Of or relating to members of the clergy. Part of Speech: Adjective Next Back Index

19. Yeoman Sentence: Never did it occur to Billy as a thing to be noted or a thing suspicious, though he well knew the fact, that the armored and captain of the hold, with the ship’s yeoman, apothecary, and others of that grade, were by naval usage messmates of the master-at-arms, men with ears convenient to his confidential tongue. Pg. 68 Definition: An officer in the US Navy who works as a clerk. Part of Speech: Noun Next Back Index

20. Extenuate Sentence: And before a court less arbitray and more merciful than martial one, that plea would largely extenuate. Pg. 98 Definition: Try to lessen the seriousness or extent of by making partial excuses Part of Speech: Transitive verb Next Back Index

21. Tacitly Sentence: With that, crossing the deck he resumed his place by the sashed porthole, tacitly leaving the three to come to a decision Pg. 99 Definition: Having the qualities of being express/ understand without being directly stated Part of Speech: Adverb Next Back Index

22. word20 Sentence: The twain raised the felled one from the loins up into a sitting position. Pg. 82 Definition: Two Part of Speech: Noun Next Back Index

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