Cyrano Vocab Part 2

an obsolete bass lute with two sets of strings attached to separate peg boxes, one above the other, on the neck.

a person who has a cultivated appreciation of artistic excellence, as a connoisseur or collector of objects of art, antiques, etc...

a state of abstracted musing; daydreaming.

to express oneself in an immoderately enthusiastic manner.

to surround with hostile forces.

any delicate, interlacing work of lines, threads, etc..., as in carving or embroidery

any of several plants or shrubs having fragnant flowers.

lonely and sad; forsaken.

extreme suffering of any kind.

a close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men between the 15th and 17th centuries.

marked by a ready flow of speech; fluent.

to make thin, less compact, or less dense.

a polyhedron having 20 faces.

potassium nitrate; niter; a white crystalline substance.

speaking or exressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.

a fortification consisting of an embankment, often with a parapet built on top.

a low protective wall or railing along the edge of a raised structure such as a roof or balcony.

a small crown worn by princes and princesses and by other nobles below the rank of sovereign.

a metal pivot or journal at the end of a shaft or an axle, around which a wheel or other device turns. the socket of a hinge into which a pin fits.

a helmet, expecially an ornate visorless headpiece of the 16th century.

body armor, expecially a brestplate.

a member of minor nobility in Spain.

any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

to move the entrails of; disembowel.

a ludicrous or mocking imitation; a travesty.

unworth of serious attention; trivial.

the din and commotion of a great crowd.

to smile in a silly, slef-concious, often coy manner.