Vocabulary in Billy Budd

Vocabulary in Billy Budd, the novella by Herman Melville (published posthumously), includes the following:

Chapter 1

man-of-war (also man-o'-war, or sometimes just "man") - a powerful warship (or frigate) in 1500-1800 in Europe
Ham - the second son of Noah, in the Book of Genesis, the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan.
indomitable - impossible to defeat or even subdue (the name of the ship)
vainglorious - boastful
tartan - patterned cloth with overlapping horizontal and vertical colored bands associated with a clan, from the Scottish Highlands
pagod - charred or burnt ("black pagod of a fellow," referring to a particular black sailor)
Anacharsis Cloots - nicknamed a "citizen of humanity" and "a personal enemy of God," he was an anarchist who advocated for world parliament as a leading figure of the French Revolution, though himself a Prussian nobleman; as a foreigner to France, he was guillotined with others on March 24, 1794 to a massive crowd supportive of the execution
retinue - an entourage or group that accompanies someone important
tipple - to drink alcohol
alacrity - brisk, cheerful promptness
celerity - rapidity of action; quickness
portmanteau - a large suitcase made of stiff leather with 2 compartments; figuratively, a word made by combining two other words, such as "brunch"
taffrail - the handrail surrounding the open deck area at or near the stern of a boat
impressment - forcing someone into service, typically the British Navy, without consent
martial - relating to war, or warlike

cynosure - someone (or thing) at the center of admiring attention
factitious - artificially created, used as "To one essentially such a novice in the complexities of factitious life, the abrupt transition ...."
indurated - hardened, as in soil indurated by a frost
tawny - mixture of yellow, brown and orange colors, like the coat of a lion
toucan's bill - the very large and remarkably colorful beaks of the toucan bird
halyards - a rope that is used for raising and lowering a ship's sail or other flag, etc.
rectitude - morally good conduct or thinking
doxies - lovers
fiddlers'-green - an imaginary paradise for sailors in their afterlife after serving for 50 years
moral obliquities - immorality or diverging from what is moral
doctrine of man's fall - the original sin by Adam in the Garden of Eden
unvitiated - uncorrupted; pure
Caspar (Kaspar) Hauser - a German youth who asserted that he was raised in an isolated, darkened cell
Fabian - cautious; the Fabian Society in England in 1884 sought socialism through gradual change rather than a revolution