94. The Bay of Fundy has an exceptionally high tide which rises with great rapidity.
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2. precerdents: legal decisions previously made which serve as models for later decisions.
4. this-worldify. The women in early New England dressed very simply and sternly, but the odor of musk would make them seem to belong to this world, which has beauty as well as severity.
7. clawfoot: a piece of furniture, here a chest, having clawfeet.
38. pithed with hardihood. New England people had hardihood at the center of their lives.
50. The bloodroot leaf is curled round the tiny write flower bud to protect it.
56. haggle: move slowly and with difficulty.
100. vendoo: vendue, public sale.
117. What American poets express a similar need of nearness to nature?