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

Chapter 2

• 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 -
• halyards -
• tar-bucket -