6. down. A bare sandy hill.
7. Danish barrows. Burial mounds supposed to date back to the time of the Danes.
16. lumber. Waste material; clumsy, useless articles.
17. swarthy. Black or brown in colour.
18. fluke. The hook or wing of the anchor.
25-6. A suggestion of what is to take place later in the lives of these three.
38. The stronger passions of youth.
63. great and small. Old and young.
67. prone. Sloping down precipitously.
68. To feather. The wood was denser in the hollow (see line 444), than along the upper edges of the slope.