Glossary- burial
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The act or ceremony of burying.
- businesses
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a building or site where work is carried on
- celebrate
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to observe with festivities
- charity
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something given to a person in need
- clergyman
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A member of the clergy, or ordained Christian minister.
- clerk
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a person employed to keep records
- covetous
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wanting wealth or greedy
- dog days
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very hot days in the month of August
- door-nail
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A large-headed nail formerly usded for stengthening or ornamental doors
- earth
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the planet we live on
- excuse
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an explination or reason
- features
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any part of the face; nose, chin or eyes.
- flint
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a hard stone
- girlfriend
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a friend who is female
- goose
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a wild bird often used as food
- grating voice
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irritating or unpleasant voice
- grave
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a place to bury a dead body
- gravestone
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a grave marker
- gravy
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a sauce put on food
- grind-stone
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a round stone used for sharpinging or shaping.
- job
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something someone is expected to do
- magical
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produced by or as if by magic
- Past
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gone by or elapsed in time
- picking a man's pocket
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taking money
- poor
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people with out a lot of money
- prisons
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jail, a place of confinment
- rime
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a layer of ice
- schoolhouse
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a place where classes are held, generally referring to a one room schoolhouse
- shadows
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a dark figure cast on the ground or surface by something blocking light
- solitary as an oyster
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simile meaning one likes to keep to them self
- surplus population
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too many people
- twenty-fifth of December
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Christmas
- upset stomach
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sick to your stomach
- workhouses
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a place where poor people were give work
