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nautch - n. - An entertainment consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing (or Nautch) girls.

halloo - 1. Used to catch someone's attention. 2. Used to urge on hounds in a hunt.

offing - n. - That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing

gambir (also gambier) - n. - an astringent extract obtained from the leaves and young shoots of a tropical Asian shrub, Uncaria gambir, of the madder family, used in medicine, dyeing, tanning, etc.

rawish - a. - Somewhat raw

harden - 1. To make hard or harder. 2. To enable to withstand physical or mental hardship. 3. To make unfeeling, unsympathetic, or callous: “To love love and not its meaning hardens the heart in monstrous ways” (Archibald MacLeish). 4. To make sharp, as in outline. 5. To protect (nuclear weapons) by surrounding with earth or concrete.

nubuck - n. - an aniline-dyed leather with its finished surface buffed to a slight nap or suede-like appearance

kalium - n. - Potassium; -- so called by the German chemists

meloid - Of or relating to blister beetles.

during - prep. - In the time of; as long as the action or existence of