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Authors: H. G. Wells

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Unconscious.

Those who ran their machines.

The merely decorative kings who followed Charlemagne in France during the Dark Ages (the ninth and tenth centuries).

By consent of the Morlocks.

Easily climbed.

Spire.

Growing dark.

Plants with white or yellow flowers in clusters.

Tree trunks.

The Dog Star, the brightest star in the sky.

According to Isaac Newton, every 25,000 years, as the earth turns on its polar axis, the axis itself rotates.

Grassy, raised flatland.

Mere.

Sections of the double door.

Splayed out.

Home of London’s Museum of Natural History.

Compared to the dull present in which he finds himself.

Sulphur, saltpeter, and nitrates are chemicals necessary for making gunpowder.

Dissolved or melted.

Clear evolutionary changes.

It may be, of course, that the floor did not slope, but that the museum was built into the side of a hill.—Ed.
⁴

Garden outside a basement window.

Signal tower.

Warped bindings.

Journal of the Royal Society, founded in 1660; until the nineteenth century, scientists were “natural philosophers.”

Scottish song title that translates as The Land of the Dead. The Time Traveller may think of the future as a land of the dead or may simply be elated—if the land of the dead is paradise—that he has found some matches. His dancing combines popular and folk styles.

Camphor is a flammable substance, derived from the camphor tree, that is often used in liniments. Paraffin is a waxy substance that is also flammable.

Cuttlefish.

The Time Traveller cannot resist the temptation to deface a steatite (soapstone) deity, probably as a way of mocking religion.

Soft coal.

The iron bar becomes a medieval club.

Wave.

Recognize.

Garnets; dark-red semiprecious stones.

Drowsy.

Small hill or mound used as a burial site.

Domes.

Ghostly pale.

Protuberances, studs.

Segmented mouth area of an arthropod.

Without a ray of light.

Sandbar.

Soccer ball.

The narrator; the Time Traveller sees him on his way back, but what he is actually seeing is the moment when he departs on his second journey.

London newspaper to which Wells contributed articles.

The pistils or female parts.

Make that appointment.

Random.

Rolling elevated flatland, usually with no trees and poor soil.

Public living room adjacent to the bar.

Obsolete gold coins each worth £1.

Sluggish.

Brilliance (French); used ironically here.

Side panels.

Low panel in front of the fire to keep coals from popping out onto the floor or rug.

Napkin.

Shade.

Frame for hanging clothing.

Potatoes.

One-horse carriage.

Taking care of him.

Light meal served in the late afternoon.

Clock repairman.

Red stop lights.

Laboratory scientist.

Experiments.

Deceiving, shamming.

Surely, certainly.

Drinking.

Strange character.

Scolded.

Women.

Connoisseur who enjoys the arts (Italian); Griffin is a rare item.

Nonsense.

Why did he bite him?

Sealed by searing with a hot iron.

Plugs.

Tall chest of drawers.

Pharmacist’s.

Coin worth one-twentieth of a pound.

Nails used in making rough workingmen’s boots.

Crackling noise.

Flesh color.

Spotted with different colors.

Solution.

Artists.

Ironic; people are religious on Sunday but neglect religion on workdays.

Bogeymen, monsters.

One who earns his living using his mind rather than working with his hands.

Mysterious appearance.

Still up after bedtime.

Fearfully.

Fossil.

Donation.

Formula.

Artificial arm.

Blinders that keep horses from seeing things at their side; the reference is to Griffin’s wrap-around glasses.

Day after Whitsunday (see chapter IV, endnote 7).

Two pounds plus ten shillings, all coins.

Metal container for carrying coal.

Room for washing dishes and kitchen utensils.

Oddly, comically clothed.

Melting away.

Awakened, aroused.

Have you got what I want?

‘Tas
means “ ’tis,”
uz
means “his,” and
‘e ent
is “he ain’t.”

Business.

Alcoholic beverages.

I’m damned if that isn’t witchcraft.

Used not only as good luck charms, but to ward off spirits.

Unbroken, not smashed in.

Beat.

Vague, incomplete.

Criss-cross ribbing pattern in cloth or, as here, in cheap paper.

Game in which balls are thrown to knock coconuts off a shelf.

Clinked.

Twinge.

Now, now!

He treats her as an inferior.

Is that so? (mockingly).

Transformed.

God!

Awkward young person.

Farm workers wore smocks over their clothes.

Head.

Arrest.

Arguing.

As in soccer.

Hands on hips, elbows away from the body.

Church caretaker.

Instantly.

Billy club.

Escaping crowd.

Sudden and violent.

Bushy disorder.

Plumpness.

His socks have holes in them.

Herbs of the rose family.

Begging.

Person speaking to him.

Eye.

General name for several birds, including the lapwing.

Off my rocker; insane.

Hard quartz stones.

Strange business.

Go on.

Indicates
vox et praeterea nihil,
“a voice and nothing behind it” (Latin).

Gibberish.

Powerless.

Tizzy, confused state.

Fancy.

Worn by the members of the club that sponsored the Whit-Monday fair.

Decorations.

False, artificial.

Suspenders.

Accustomed.

Darn!—code.

Spotted with red, the result of alcoholism.

Is this the bar?

Informal records.

Something.

In a low voice, a whisper.

By hand signs.

Stubborn.

Probably.

A game like rugby.

Pullover sweater.

Improper, unseemly.

Ornaments, decoration.

Candy.

Legal holiday.

Ruddy.

Everyone knows about it.

Paralyzing fear.

Austria.

Altercation.

Line.

Tossing words around; being glib.

With no visible support.

Cash boxes.

Coins in coin wrappers.

Windowed room at the top of a house.

Slides.

Nicely run.

Hidden.

White.

Inn (a real one) named after those who play cricket.

A strong ale.

Hinged panel in the bar that allows people to get behind it.

Sofa.

Fire.

Young hare.

Devices for beating grain; a flail consists of a wooden handle at the end of which hangs a stouter, shorter stick that swings freely.

Intervals, spaces between.

With a lack of energy.

Ringing the bell for a prank.

Seltzer water.

Washstand with the articles needed to wash face and hands.

Frightening, mysterious.

I need help.

Food pantry.

Nostrils.

Parts of windows that move up and down.

Blurting something out with force.

Larvae are young invertebrate animals; nauplii, crustacean larvae; tornarias, immature acorn worms.

Seeing patients.

Indicates cum
grano salis,
“with a grain of salt” (Latin); that is, with skepticism.

School of fish.

Probably means Indian coolie, though the term can refer to anyone working under harsh conditions.

Glass containing lead oxide; has a high level of refraction; used for optical devices.

Cad.

Dishonest.

One in a low-level academic position.

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