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.
• 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
• retinue - an entourage or group that accompanies someone important