beruffled
Disorderly, scruffy
bine-stems
The stem of a flexible climbing plant
coppice
An area of woodland tended to by farmers in order to stimulate growth and provide firewood
evensong
Music for evening church service
gaunt
Appearing lean and exhausted, especially as the result of suffering
germ
A small amount of a living substance capable of developing into a living organism, such as a seed
faltering
Losing momentum or strength
filmed
To be or appear to be covered with a thin layer of something
illimited
Free from limitation or restraint
listlessness
Having or showing little to no interest in anything
mead
In "Afterwards," mead is used to mean something like meadow or heath.
nigh
Near or almost
norward
A place in the north
outleant
To lean further
outrollings
In "Afterwards," the state of billowing as a wind
postern
A back door or gate
quittance
Discharge from an obligation
spectre
A ghost
tremulous
To be affected with involuntary shaking
wistlessness
The state of being not knowing, ignorant, or unwitting