Matilda Bone

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  1. bonesetter
    someone who sets broken bones
    Narrator – Dor
    Peg, the Bonesetter - Liza
    Matilda – Sarah
    Walter – Eduardo
    Old Sarah - Nabila
    Old Nathanial - Beltran

    Narrator: Just back from the market one day, smelling strongly of the fish heads and onions she carried, Matilda was surprised to hear someone move in the darkness of the shop.
  2. bitterroot
    showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower
    Nathaniel: Aha…..I must tell them by smell….ah here is sweet marjoram…..and bitterroot…..and tansy.
  3. monkshood
    a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite
    Peg: Here take this lotion of monkshood, meadow-sweet, and oil of wintergreen.
  4. comfrey
    perennial herbs of Europe and Iran
    I need you to pound some comfrey and cut some linen into strips.
  5. fearsomely
    in a fearsome manner
    Walter: It would help greatly if you were to bring it soon, for I am most fearsomely busy.
  6. apothecary
    a health professional who prepares and dispenses drugs
    Walter: My master is Nathaniel Cross, the apothecary.
  7. sweet marjoram
    aromatic European plant native to Mediterranean and Turkey
    Nathaniel: Aha…..I must tell them by smell….ah here is sweet marjoram…..and bitterroot…..and tansy.
  8. tansy
    common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally
    Nathaniel: Aha…..I must tell them by smell….ah here is sweet marjoram…..and bitterroot…..and tansy.
  9. fetching
    very attractive; capturing interest
    Matilda: Walter, the apprentice, came and went, waiting on customers, fetching armloads of thyme or parsley.
  10. pestle
    a hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar
    In the center of the room there was a long table piled with bowls, wooden pestles, weights and scales.
  11. dimple
    any slight depression in a surface
    Oh, it’s you...the small girl with the green eyes and the dimpled chin!
  12. mold
    the distinctive form in which a thing is made
    The air was smoky and heavy with the sweet smells of herbs and spices and mold.
  13. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
    Matilda: Peg was always setting and bandaging bones and bodies, gently moving twisted limbs to be set right with a smile to cheer and ease her patients’ hearts broken by accident or capricious fate.
  14. apprentice
    someone who works for an expert to learn a trade
    Matilda: Walter, the apprentice, came and went, waiting on customers, fetching armloads of thyme or parsley.
  15. medieval
    relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
    Yuki: Matilda Bone is Karen Cushman’s third novel set in medieval England.
  16. indebted
    owing gratitude to another for help or favors
    Walter: And what is the name of the valued bonesetter’s helper that we will be indebted to?
  17. afflicted
    mentally or physically unfit
    His wife, Old Sarah, who suffers many ailments, is now much afflicted with pains in her legs.
  18. era
    a period marked by distinctive character
    Although it is fiction, the life described is based on research and would be similar to life there around the 1270’s Common Era.
  19. miracle
    a marvelous event brought about by a divine being
    Yes, surely a miracle has brought us together again.
  20. linen
    a fabric woven with fibers from the flax plant
    I need you to pound some comfrey and cut some linen into strips.
  21. sweep
    clean by using a broom or as if with a broom
    Matilda: There were no letters to copy, no saints or sins to remember as with the priest…but full and sometimes merry days of fetching and sweeping and watching and working every day of the week and even some nights

    Will I ever find my tools or learn my own way to heal or mend bodies like Peg, Doctor Marjery, or Nathaniel the Apothecary?
Created on 四月 13, 2011

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