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Authors: Melanie Rawn

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Touchstone (54 page)

swoophead
  a balding man trying to hide it with a comb-over

Thornlore
  the study of various drugs and their effects on different races

thorn-thralled
  addicted

tincted
  stained, dyed

tregetour
  originally a street magician; evolved into the word for a playwright

trimmings
  tips thrown onstage to players after the show

trull
  prostitute

twice-seen
  déjà vu

twitchie
  useless, bitchy, upper-class girl

wailful
  lamentable

wistly
  wistfully

yaffle
  to eat ravenously while making unpleasant noises

yark
  vomit

 

AUTHOR’S NOTE

Muchly beholden to: Russ Galen and Danny Baror, Beth Meacham and Melissa Frain, Laurie Rawn, Mary Anne Ford, Lee and Barbara Johnson, Jay and Sonia Busby, Teresa Taylor, AshLeigh Henson, Kandice Adams, and all the other knowledgeable habitués of
www.melanierawn.com
for research help.

There are quite a few words herein that I stole from a perfectly marvelous book called
There’s a Word for It!
by Charles Harrington Elster. (How could the English language possibly have left by the wayside the wondrous
snarge
and
collifobble
and
glisk
?) A couple of the terms I either adapted or made up myself, but as much as I’d love to claim all of them, I ain’t that creative.

 

TOR BOOKS BY MELANIE RAWN

Spellbinder

Fire Raiser

Touchstone

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

TOUCHSTONE

Copyright © 2012 by Melanie Rawn

All rights reserved.

A Tor Book

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e-ISBN 9781429987240

First Edition: February 2012

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