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n - one that drives cattle or sheep
drover
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n - a castrated bull, a steer; a young bull
bullock
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n - a dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade
poniard
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n - 1) the act of terminating or the condition of being terminated; a) the end of something in time; the conclusion; b) an end of something in space; a limit or edge
2) a result; an outcome
termination
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v - 1) to provide with property, income, or a source of income. a) to equip or supply with a talent or quality. b) to imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality;
2) to provide with a dower
endow
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v - 1) to split with or as if with a sharp instrument; 2) to make or accomplish by or as if by cutting; 3) to pierce or penetrate
cleave
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n - 1) the prescribed or customary form for conducting a religious or other solemn ceremony; 2) a ceremonial act or series of acts; 3) the liturgy or practice of a branch of the Christian church
rite
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n - the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (esp. in battle)
valor
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n - a contagious, often fatal epidemic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted from person to person or by the bite of fleas from an infected rodent, esp. a rat, and characterized by chills, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and the formation of buboes
Bubonic Plague
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n - food fit for human consumption
victual
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adj - established or prearranged unalterably
predestinate
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n - a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip
baldrick
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adj - loathsome; disgusting; unpleasant or objectionable; contemptibly low in worth or account; second-rate; of mean or low condition; miserably poor and degrading; wretched; morally depraved; ignoble or wicked
vile
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adj - taking great pleasure or delight; engaging in uproarious festivities; making merry
revelling
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v - to plait or interlace, esp. in making a hedge or an arbor; to shade or border with interlaced branches or vines
pleach
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v - to endow with the rights of citizenship, esp. the right to vote; to free, as from bondage
enfranchise
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n - bar or hinder the progress
impediment
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adj - of marriage or a wedding
nuptial
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v - to accuse of and blame for a fault so as to make feel ashamed; rebuke, reprove
reproach
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adj - not wasteful
frugal
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n - an inscription on a tomb or gravestone in memory of the person
epitaphs
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