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tack, to change the direction of a vessel when sailing closely-hauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the sails so that she will come up into the wind and then fall off on the other side until she proceeds at about the same angle to the wind as before, but on the opposite tack—a tack on a vessel is the direction in which the vessel sails.
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tug, a laborious pulling or straining; hence, a severe stress.
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warp, pull ship by means of a rope; haul along by a rope.
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yeast cake for democracy’s dough . A yeast cake is a mealy or doughy cake impregnated with live germs of the yeast plant, used for raising bread. Dough refers to the soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked. Hence the clause means that we must be the uplifters, the persons to improve and move the mass of humanity.
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double reefs, doubling over or together of those parts of a sail which are taken in or let out by means of the reef points, in order to regulate the size of the sail.
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canvas, a sail or a collection of sails of a vessel; a coarse, heavy cloth of hemp or flax, spread to catch the wind by means of which a vessel is driven forward in the water.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis （1850-1894）, Scottish essayist, romancer, and poet.
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eradicate, root out; pluck up by the roots; destroy utterly.
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Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A. America’s foremost seat of learning, founded in 1636. William James was professor of psychology and philosophy at Harvard.
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sterilized conceit, personal vanity that has been rid of microbes even;conceit that is very particular and exclusive.
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Edith Wyatt （1873-1958）, American author. Her home is in Chicago. Her Every One His Own Way was printed in 1901.
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a couple, a wedded or engaged pair.
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Richard Elliot, one of the main characters in Edith Wyatt’s book.
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feminine counterpart, wife.
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caricatures, grotesque representations of persons by overemphasis on characteristics.
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Cambridge and Boston, where Harvard University is located.
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priggishness . A prig is a person who is narrowly or self-consciously engrossed in his own mental or spiritual attainments.
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painter’s colic, a paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.
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trade disease, illness, sickness, or ailment pertaining to a particular trade.
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pounces, swoops down and seizes.
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human core . The core is the central part of anything; the essential part; hence, the heart or soul of the human being.
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regnant, prevalent, predominant, ruling.
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robuster, more vigorous.
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gives it a wide berth, keeps far away from it.
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“tone,” prevailing character of morals, sentiments, etc., which gives a general effect of the whole.
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