Conjure- appear unexpectedly or seemingly from nowhere
page 5 "Puzzles of ironmongery lay unseen but which his tongue conjured from door to door"
Bumbershoot- an umbrella
page 12 "Or shape black bumbershoots into lurking bat costumes for cabbage night"
Pantomime- an absurdly exaggerated piece of behavior
page 8 "Shaken by concussions of silent pantomime"
Ironmongery- a person selling hardware such as tools
page 79 "The ironmongery machines hissed off"
Desiccate- remove moisture from something
page 115 "The desiccated bellows refilled"
Trellis- a framework of light wooden or metal bars
page 131 "The polevault cemetery trellises and walls"
Revelation- surprising and previously unknown fact
page 133 "It was the possible bitterness of revelation"
Facsimile- an exact copy
page 166 "Wax dummies quaked in facsimiles of fear"
Incredulous- unwilling or unable to believe something
page 172 "Instead, incredulous, he only blurted softly with the crowd around"
Calligraphic- of or relating to calligraphy
page 176 "The Illustrated Man clenched his two calligraphic fists very hard"
Cumulus- a crowd forming rounded masses heaped on each other above a flat base
page 179 "It made a fine thick cumulus surrounding the woman"
Lattice- a structure consisting of wood or metal crossed and fastened together
page 182 "Clutching the steel lattice-grille"
Sullen- bad tempered and sullen
page 193 "In gusts they make all moons sullen"
Threshing- separating a grain from a plant
page 195 "That's the harvest, the carnival comes smiling after with it's threshing machine"
Writhe- make continual twisting, squirming movements
page 222 "Both boys writhed in the iron-maiden clutch of hungry saurian"
Tremulous- shaking or quivering slightly
page 243 "Did he not perceive, with tremulous tip of eyelash if not the eye, their passage through"
Sluices- a sliding gate for controlling the flow of water"
page 255 "Ahead flowed sluices of silver light"
Leprous- relating to or resembling leprosy
page 262 "Wind flung up all the tent canvases in a kite display of leprous wings"
Calliope- a keyboard instrument resembling an organ but with steam whistle notes
page 264 "He heard the calliope summing the golden years ahead"
Semaphore- an apparatus for signaling
page 289 "Last one to the railroad semaphore is an old lady"
page 5 "Puzzles of ironmongery lay unseen but which his tongue conjured from door to door"
Bumbershoot- an umbrella
page 12 "Or shape black bumbershoots into lurking bat costumes for cabbage night"
Pantomime- an absurdly exaggerated piece of behavior
page 8 "Shaken by concussions of silent pantomime"
Ironmongery- a person selling hardware such as tools
page 79 "The ironmongery machines hissed off"
Desiccate- remove moisture from something
page 115 "The desiccated bellows refilled"
Trellis- a framework of light wooden or metal bars
page 131 "The polevault cemetery trellises and walls"
Revelation- surprising and previously unknown fact
page 133 "It was the possible bitterness of revelation"
Facsimile- an exact copy
page 166 "Wax dummies quaked in facsimiles of fear"
Incredulous- unwilling or unable to believe something
page 172 "Instead, incredulous, he only blurted softly with the crowd around"
Calligraphic- of or relating to calligraphy
page 176 "The Illustrated Man clenched his two calligraphic fists very hard"
Cumulus- a crowd forming rounded masses heaped on each other above a flat base
page 179 "It made a fine thick cumulus surrounding the woman"
Lattice- a structure consisting of wood or metal crossed and fastened together
page 182 "Clutching the steel lattice-grille"
Sullen- bad tempered and sullen
page 193 "In gusts they make all moons sullen"
Threshing- separating a grain from a plant
page 195 "That's the harvest, the carnival comes smiling after with it's threshing machine"
Writhe- make continual twisting, squirming movements
page 222 "Both boys writhed in the iron-maiden clutch of hungry saurian"
Tremulous- shaking or quivering slightly
page 243 "Did he not perceive, with tremulous tip of eyelash if not the eye, their passage through"
Sluices- a sliding gate for controlling the flow of water"
page 255 "Ahead flowed sluices of silver light"
Leprous- relating to or resembling leprosy
page 262 "Wind flung up all the tent canvases in a kite display of leprous wings"
Calliope- a keyboard instrument resembling an organ but with steam whistle notes
page 264 "He heard the calliope summing the golden years ahead"
Semaphore- an apparatus for signaling
page 289 "Last one to the railroad semaphore is an old lady"