[22] Corn: such grains as wheat, rye, barley, oats.
[23] Quadrant: an instrument long used for measuring altitudes.
[24] Skirt: coat-tail.
[25] Alcoran the Koran or Mohammedan Bible.
[26] Embargo: an order not to sail.
[27] Discompose them: displace them.
[28] Puissant: powerful.
[29] Junto: a body of men secretly united to gain some political end.
[30] Pulling: plucking and drawing, preparatory to cooking,
[31] Meaner: of lower rank.