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squawks:
slur for native Torian females

stones:
testicles

streaky:
a carri’s copper sideboards from which the black paint is wearing off or has been stripped off to simulate

wear

strumpet:
prostitute

sweet Mary:
Mary, mother of Jesus

sweets:
candy

switch:
wig

Talia, Talian:
Th e Torian universe’s version of Italy, Italians
tealass:
a girl or woman who sells hot tea and cakes in a café or from a street cart

teller:
fortune-teller

tenner:
ten-pound note

Tillers:
a secret society comprising important political, business, and social fi gures

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timepiece:
watch

tinnery:
a factory where fresh fi sh and other perishables are processed and canned in tin containers

tint:
a paper-copy image printed from an ambrotype glass plate; makeup used to redden cheeks and lips

tinter:
device used to imprint images on ambrotype glass plates

tintest:
a professional ambrotype plate developer and tint maker

to let:
available for rent

tonners:
members of high society

Toriana:
short name for Provincial Union of Victoriana, the alternate-history name for the United States

tosser:
a drunk

trade:
business

trolling:
looking for work

trunch:
a wooden baton carried by beaters

tubes:
a system of pneumatic pipes that deliver goods and food across the city

tunneler:
an underground city worker who polices the

subsurface tunnels and keeps the city’s tube in operation

understair:
belowground level of building; cellar or basement
unjammer:
a mechanical snakelike device used to unblock tubes

uptoppers:
above street level

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vicar:
priest of the Torianglican Church

waders:
thigh-high protective rubber boots

waister:
a wide cummerbund-type belt made of fabric that females wear around their waists to cover the joining of

skirts and bodices

warders:
magic practitioners who create protective charms and spells to protect people, possessions, and property

wardling:
an object used as a protective charm

warren:
a tunneler’s assigned work area

watershed:
raincoat

Welshires:
people from Wales

whitecart:
horse-drawn conveyance used to transport the wounded to hospital or the mentally disturbed to asylum

wichcart:
a street cart that sells sandwiches

willowbark:
herbal remedy for headaches and hangovers (equivalent to aspirin)

winge:
slang for an older, grouchy person

Yard, the:
short name for New Scotland Yard

zoopraxiscope:
a device that uses images on glass disks as the fi rst form of stop-motion projection

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Since 2000, Lynn Viehl has published fi fty novels in nine

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