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Other unusual words in Wuthering Heights are the following:
BAIRNIES
Bairns, children.
BASILISK
Spell-binding, fatal; a basilisk is a legendary reptile with fatal breath and
glance.
BECK
Small stream.
BOARDS
Shutters or doors.
BRACH
Bitch hound.
CANT
1. Talk with affected piety; 2. Lively, vigorous, cheerful.
CHUCK
Chicken.
CLOTHES PRESS
Clothes cupboard.
COCKATRICE
Legendary serpent with a deadly glance, hatched by a reptile from a cock's
egg on a dung hill.
COMMINATIONS
Denunciations.
CRAHNR
Coroner (assimilated to crown).
DEAVED
Broken with violence.
DEN
Narrow valley or ravine.
DUNNOCK
Hedge sparrow.
EEN
Eyes.
EFT
Pewt.
FAIN
1. Willingly; 2. rather.
FAISHION
Have the cheek to.
FLAYSOME
Frightening.
FLIGHTED D Scared.
FRAME
Go.
GAIT
Manner.
GALLOWAY
Small horse or pony.
GANS
Goes.
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