MDMD(5)Chap 16---Notes

[Eric Alan Weinstein]

MDMD (5)--------Chap 16 NOTES

167.2 `to avoid betraying her' in what way betray her? and what does
this say about the story we are presented with here? 

167.10 `Octuple Gloucester' n.b. the difference ebtween a single and
double gloucester is one of size, not composition of the cheese so
this is nto so far-fetched a notion

167.4 `Randwick' small village a mile or so NW of Stroud

167.20 `Caseifaction' clearly cheese-making, however OED only has
caseation.

168.2 `gastro=spiritual distress among the Clothiers' the early
rumblings of Ned Ludd's army

168.10  "Wheeled litters"---a framework having long horozontal shafts
near the bottom, and enclosing a couch upon which a person may be carried

168.14  "Cotswold Waggon"----any specific details of wagon type ???


169.14 `Minchinhampton' small village a few miles SW of Stroud - any
resemblance to Mingeborough Mass is purely coincidental. So too
perhaps any resemblance to The Hampton's of Long Island? For Susannah
does seem a bit of a princess...

169.21  "incident light" in physics, (a) the falling of a line, or a ray of
light,
projectile, etc. Moving in a line, on a surface; (b) the direction of such
falling


169.25 `Shantung' L19, a soft, undressed Chinese silk, fabric made
from such

169.25 `Tussah' = Tussore, a kind of strong, coarse silk produced in
India etc. by saturniid silk worms of the genus Antherea, , fabric
made from such, L16

169.25 `Pongee' A soft usu unbleached type of Chinese silk fabric
woven from uneven threads of raw silk, E18

170.15 `drag-shoe' E18, iron shoe that can be applied to wheel as a
brake

171.20 `Sapperton' village about 8 miles W of Stroud

172.17 `Tellurick' [f Lat tellus = earth (n.b. Tellus = Roman goddess
of the earth,  the TLUSCVA are Tellus and Tellumo, the Nurturing and 
the Inseminating, the Earth Mother and the Earth Father.)] 
1) of or belonging to the earth, terrestrial, M19
2) Of, dirived from, or containing Tellurium, esp. in a higher vallence
than in the corresponding Tellurous compounds. 
3) Telluric Lines----lines of the solar spectrum which owe their presence
to the absorbtion of the earth's atmosphere. 
Eric Alan Weinstein
University of London
E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk