The Prisoner of Zenda (45 page)

lower and upper world
PHRASE
the earth and the heavens are the lower and upper worlds
the changes in the lower and upper world
(
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)

lustres
NOUN
lustres are chandeliers. A chandelier is a large, decorative frame which holds light bulbs or candles and hangs from the ceiling
the lustres, lights, the carving and the guilding
(
The Prelude
by William Wordsworth)

lynched
VERB
killed without a criminal trial by a crowd of people
He'll never know how nigh he come to getting lynched
(
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain)

malingering
VERB
if someone is malingering they are pretending to be ill to avoid working
And you stand there malingering
(
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson)

managing
PHRASE
treating with consideration
to think the honour of my own kind not worth managing
(
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)

manhood
PHRASE
manhood means human nature
concerning the nature of manhood
(
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)

man-trap
NOUN
a man-trap is a set of steel jaws that snap shut when trodden on and trap a person's leg
“Don't go to him,” I called out of the window, “he's an assassin! A man-trap!”
(
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens)

maps
NOUN
charts of the night sky
Let maps to others, worlds on worlds have shown
(
The Good-Morrow
by John Donne)

mark
VERB
look at or notice
Mark but this flea, and mark in this (
The Flea
by John Donne)

maroons
NOUN
A maroon is someone who has been left in a place which it is difficult for them to escape from, like a small island
if schooners, islands, and maroons
(
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson)

mast
NOUN
here mast means the fruit of forest trees
a quantity of acorns, dates, chestnuts, and other mast
(
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift)

mate
VERB
defeat
Where Mars did mate the warlike Carthigens
(
Doctor Faustus Chorus
by Christopher Marlowe)