Definitions, Part II

Das Kapital: An extensive examination of political economy, written by Karl Marx and edited in part by Friedrich Engels. 

http://books.google.com/books?id=6TfTS9ITW7UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=das+kapital&source=bl&ots=m5WB0wduxf&sig=607cZbK9Qvv5eO69rInsjA9r1bA&hl=en&ei=03gITP7REpXkNavOpJYI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false

MCC: The Marylebone Cricket Club

http://www.lords.org/mcc/about-mcc/

Henry of Mayfair: an American clockmaker

http://www.henryofmayfair.com/AboutHOM.aspx

Stout Crotez coming upon the Pacific: Spanish explorer who reached the Pacific Ocean in the early Sixteenth Century

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/explorers/spanishexplorers.htm

The India Rubber pedagogue: India rubber is an impermeable substance. A pedagogue is a dull, formal, or pedantic teacher.

http://dictionary.die.net/caoutchouc

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedagogue

Zipped grip bag: A gripsack; a hand bag; a satchel or suitcase

http://www.answers.com/topic/grip

Don’t go off me: To lose control. Often heard with regard to a person verbally rambling on.

http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/g.htm

Juno for her forehead did exceed all other goddesses: A quote from Giovanni from Tis a Pity She’s a Whore.

Juno: Roman queen of the gods. 

http://books.google.com/books?id=VFY-AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA28&lpg=RA1-PA28&dq=juno+for+her+forehead+did+exceed+all+other+goddesses&source=bl&ots=4KmFhEviKx&sig=sEEbDESMKJK-6tIk_S60_cKB1Ro&hl=en&ei=oX0ITNy7MoaONeTC2LUE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=juno%20for%20her%20forehead%20did%20exceed%20all%20other%20goddesses&f=false

http://www.thaliatook.com/OGOD/juno.html

Make an anchorite lascivious: Anchorite: a person who lives in seclusion usually for religious reasons

Lascivious: Middle English, from Late Latin lasciviosus, from Latin lascivia wantonness, from lascivus wanton

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lascivious

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anchorite

British Council Tour: “Connecting the UK to the world and the world to the UK, the British Council is the UK's international cultural relations body.”

http://www.britishcouncil.org/new/about-us/

Amo Amas Amat Latin for I love, you love, he loves.  Conjugation of the verb “to love”

And these few precepts in thy memory: from Hamlet, Act I, Sc iii

Chips Rafferty: Australian actor, known for swashbuckling roles

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706256/

Meretricious: of or relating to a prostitute : having the nature of prostitution

http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict/meretricious

Petard: a case containing an explosive to break down a door or gate or breach a wall

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/petard

Sophistry: subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation

http://www.merriam-webster.com/ dictionary/sophistry

Ersatz: being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ersatz