297).Īpotheosis: exaltation to divine rank, deification "Dilsey sat bolt upright beside, crying rigidly and quietly in the annealment and the blood of the remembered Lamb" ( The Sound and the Fury, p. 83).Īnnealment: a variant of "anneal," here it suggests the tempering and cooling of Dilsey's spirit as if it were glass or metal "The animal magnetism of a dead body makes the stress come slanting, so the seams and joints of a coffin are made on the bevel" ( As I Lay Dying, p. 109).Īnimal magnetism: a paranormal belief that humans and other organisms produce a magnetic force "… faintly ammoniac with that breathless desertion of old stables…" ( Light in August, p. "…smells of cooling flesh and ammoniac hair…" ( As I Lay Dying, p. 293).Īmmoniac: the aromatic gum resin of a Persian herb "The visitor was undersized, in a shabby alpaca coat" ( The Sound and the Fury, p. 195).Īlpaca: the wool of a South American mammal related to the llama "You use airy one of them?" ( The Sound and the Fury, p. "Are you aiming to leave it laying there?" ( As I Lay Dying, p. 6).Įn ef I'd a knowed of aihy one higher, we'd a been on it instead" ( The Sound and the Fury, p. "Holding on to that ahun gate" ( The Sound and the Fury, p. "…take a holt of my hand" ( As I Lay Dying, p. "…shaking like he had an aguer" ( As I Lay Dying, p. 206).Īguer: variant of "ague," a malarial fever "She just stood there looking at me, shaking like an ague-fit, her hands clenched and kind of jerking" ( The Sound and the Fury, p. 5).Īgue-fit: shivering due to a malarial fever 111).Īdze: a cutting tool that has a thin arched blade set at right angles to the handle and is used chiefly for shaping wood
Adulant if not a husband he'd ignore God" ( The Sound and the Fury, p. 118).Īdulant: Faulkner's variant of "adulatory": here, one who praises excessively "He leaned on the rail, looking down at the trout which he had already spent, and suddenly the acrimony, the conflict, was gone from their voices…" ( The Sound and the Fury, p. "They went on, in a steady single file, the two backs in their rigid abnegation of all compromise more alike than actual blood could have made them" ( Light in August, p. "Two tears slid down her fallen cheeks, in and out of the myriad coruscations of immolation and abnegation and time" ( The Sound and the Fury, p. So whether you city folk don't know a hitch-reign from a plowline or you're stumped on a highfalutin word, this glossary has you covered- adze to zinc. What in the tarnation is an "aguer"? While reading Faulkner, don't be discouraged if you trip over a few unfamiliar words-the author is known for treating the English language as his personal property.
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