ATDDTA 744-747

[Glenn Scheper]

pistoleros

Translation: Pistoleros.
-Various gun clubs.

neural

Having to do with nerves or the nervous system, including the brain and the spinal cord.
www.stjude.org/glossary

So, in other words, visceral.

shopped

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ratting

informing: to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) 
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sidewinder

small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve 
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bagonghi

-handbags?

bagonghi , pseudonimo con cui è universalmente noto il nano del circo e delle fiere.
www.delteatro.it/dizionario_dello_spettacolo_del_900/b/bagonghi.php 

operatic

of or relating to or characteristic of opera 
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praetorians

The Praetorian Guard. A permanent establishment of nine cohorts, each containing 500 infantry and 90 cavalry. ...
www.romans-in-britain.org.uk/glo_glossary_p.htm

of or relating to a Roman praetor; "praetorial powers" 
characteristic of or similar to the corruptible soldiers in the Praetorian Guard with respect to corruption or political venality; "a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble"- Arthur M.Schlesinger Jr. 
Praetorian Guard: a member of the Praetorian Guard 
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bourgeois

n. or adj., bourgeoisie, n. (French). The merchants, professional persons (doctors, lawyers, professors), employers and white collar workers, as ...
www.mises.org/easier/B.asp

[French] an address of formality or politeness in France from the 16th C., usually for a non-noble person. However, a person addressed as NN, bourgeois de [place] might be a noble man who was involved in town affairs and wanted to keep the title bourgeois de [place] to maintain certain tax breaks.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~randyj2222/gendictb.html

In the context of the Revolution, the term is used of those relatively wealthy and politically active members of the middle classes, the professionals and gentlemen of independent means.
www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/histcourse/frenrev/refers/glossary.htm

(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class 
businessperson: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise 
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" 
belonging to the middle class 
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Bourgeoisie (RP [], GA []) is a classification used in analysing human societies to describe a class of people who are in the upper or merchant class, whose status or power comes from employment, education, and wealth as opposed to aristocratic origin. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeois

stranniki

-it sounds like Russian for stranger (but didn't translate).
strange -> Russian: stranno.

Wanderers (stranniki or beguny), a radical offshoot of priestless Old Believers. ... stranniki v XVIII–pervoi polovine XIX veka (Novosibirsk, 1996). ...
www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9434.2005.00346.x  

Ponte degli Scalzi

that "iron bridge", literally "barefoot bridge" again.

Trieste

The Adriatic port of Trieste, in the province of Venezia Giulia, was the chief port of Austria prior to World War I.
dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/City-state

Trieste (Italian: Trieste; Slovenian: Trst; German: Triest) is a city and port in northeastern Italy right on the border with Slovenia. Trieste is located at the head of the Gulf of Trieste on the Adriatic Sea. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste

masquerade

a party of guests wearing costumes and masks 
take part in a masquerade 
fancy dress: a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party 
pretend to be someone or something that you are not; "he is masquerading as an expert on the Internet"; "This silly novel is masquerading as a serious historical treaty" 
making a false outward show; "a beggar's masquerade of wealth" 
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Giudecca

The Giudecca is an island in the Venetian Lagoon lying immediately south of the central islands, from which it is separated by the Giudecca Canal. 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giudecca

Stromboli

Stromboli is a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing one of the active volcanos in Italy. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromboli

gondolieri

Gondoliers

foschia

Haze

traghetti

Ferry

fetch

No nouns meaning water vessels, as I had expected, but:

The distance across a body of water along which a wind blows to build waves.
www2.wwnorton.com/college/geo/earth2/glossary/f.htm

the distance along open water or land over which the wind blows; to achieve a desired destination under sail, particularly with an adverse wind or tide.
www.sailboatstuff.com/glos_d_g.html

Zattere

The wood was unloaded along "Le Zattere," and eventually used in everything from ships, buildings, foundations, channel markers and mooring posts, ...
www.homeandabroad.com/viewSiteDetails.ha?mainInfoId=65190  

For those of you unfamiliar with Venice, that's a shot from the Zattere, along Dorsoduro, looking at the Giudecca at the left and out towards the shipyards ...
furyblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/le-zattere.html
(--A great picture!)

King's Band

Besides B.B. King, and various Christian groups;

JSTOR: New Light on Dr. Nicholas Staggins: First Cambridge ...Although of slender ability, he won the favour of Charles II., who, in 1682, appointed him Master of the King's Band of Musick; and in the same year the ...
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4666(19280601)69%3A1024%3C537%3ANLODNS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L - Similar pages 

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent ... - Google Books Resultby John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse - 1879 - Musicians
Bks. May 31, 1661) that the King's band of violins shall take instructions from Hudson and Mull. (See also State Papers, Domestic, ...
books.google.com/books?id=Y0sPAAAAYAAJ... 

modality

A musical system based on scales popular in Renaissance and Medieval music. Often found as well in folk music. Similar to major and minor scales in some respects, but containing altered tones that color our perception of the scale.
www.laco.org/glossary/

minor modality

Table A2: Calculations of the major/minor modality, dissonance, tension and instability of the common. triads of diatonic music using Equations 1-7 and ...
https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/24080/1/EMR000008a-Cook-Fujisawa.pdf

Which reminds me of the Devil's interval, discussion of the non-periodic
waveform of beating of two tones not related by small integer ratios; and
also, the new police weapon that disorients people using flashing LEDs.
jasper

Murano

The island, just outside of Venice, where the glassmakers are situated. More info here.
beadbear.com/glossary4im.shtml

the centre of the Italian glass-making and mirror-making trade, which was tightly controlled by Venice. A few of the containers in the VMS pharma section have decoration similar to glass from Murano circa 1450-1500.
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Voynich_Manuscript/Jargon

Murano is usually described as an island in the Venetian Lagoon, although like Venice itself it is actually an archipelago of islands linked by bridges. It lies about a mile north of Venice and is famous for its glass making, particularly lampworking. 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano

melancholy

A great P topic...

a feeling of thoughtful sadness 
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth" 
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed 
black bile: a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy 
somber: grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood" 
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Melancholia (Greek µe?a?????a), in contemporary usage, is a mood disorder of non-specific depression, characterized by low levels of enthusiasm and low levels of eagerness for activity. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholy

Part of the theory of four humours, brought on by excess of gloominess
www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/history/medhist/page45_glossary.html

twofold

Compare the beast in Divine Comedy:

Purgatorio: Canto XXXI

As in a glass the sun, not otherwise
  Within them was the twofold monster shining,
  Now with the one, now with the other nature.


longitude

East / West Measurement: Angular distance on the earth's surface, measured east or west from the prime meridian at Greenwich, England, to the meridian passing through a position, expressed in degrees (or hours), minutes, and seconds. ...
www.lakeeufaula.info/Dictionary.asp

--in the simple sense of "distance"

terms canceling

The idea that equal quantites can be added to both sides of an equation,
hence, that equal terms on both sides can be removed.

precipice

a very steep cliff 
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Stepping down from spiritual heights to physical manifestation.
www.themysticeye.com/info/tarotsymbolsfool.htm


And with great relief, he closes the book, awaiting the next reader...


Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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