September 1913

September 1913 Glossary

fumble

fish around; search blindly

till

cash drawer or cash register

pence

unit of British currency; one one-hundredth of a pound

Romantic

idealistic, utopian; pertaining to the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century artistic and literary movement focused on the sublime and subjective

stilled

paused

delirium

state of feverishness or ecstasy

exiles

people forced to live away from home, often as punishment for a crime

maddened

driven insane

weighed

considered or debated