Vocabulary Words from Treasure Island -Alphabetical List (Still being compiled)

I am still working on the links to the word definitions and etymology.

abeam
abominable
absurdly
according
accoutrement
accuracy
acre
adversary
afire
afoot
against
agile
agitated
agone
all hands
ally
aloft
alow
ambiguity
ambush
ambushes
amidships
amphitheatre
ampytated
amuck
anchor
anchorage
anecdote
aperture
apiece
apoplexy
appended
archbishops
as like as not
ashore
assailants
assault
assizes
astern
at a pinch
athwart
atrocious
avowed
axing
bachelors
backstay
bade
bail
bandoleer
barbecue
bays
bear him out
bearings
beat up for more
becalmed
berth
besiegers
bestowed
bewildered
bilge
bleared
block house
bloodthirsty
bluff
blunt
boatswain
booms
booty
bow street runner wikipedia
bows
bowsprit
brace
brass nine (a long nine)
brisk
broached
broadside
broom
brutes
budge
bulkhead
bulrushes
bumboat
burnished
bustle
by the powers
by the run
by way of
cache
cain
calumnies
canikin
capital
capstan
capstan-bars
carcasses
careen
cargo
carpet bowls
catechism
cease
cemetery
chapling
chine
chuck-farthen
circumstance
civility
clever
clove hitch: knot video of how to tie a clove hitch
coach
cocked wikipedia
cockerel hat
colour
coltish
command
companion
compass
complimented
comrades
conceal
condescending
conduct
confessions
confidant
confidential
configuration
confoundedly
conned
connoisseur
consort
contend
contorted
contrary
contrasted
contrived
coppers
corns
corruption
cove
cowed
coxswain
craft
crag
craggy
cruise
cutlass
cutter
cutwater
daddle
dainty
davy
dead-eye dictionary.com
deadlights dictionary.com
declared
defies
deformed
dell
deplore
derisively
desirous
despair
desperadoes
despised
detestable
deuce
dexterity
diabolical
dingle
disaffected
disclosed
discontent
dismissed
dismount
dispatch
doo
dooty
downright
draw
duff
duplicity
durst
dysentery
earnest
earnestly
ebb
effectual
emboldener
entirely
exclamatory
executed
exhausted
extricate
fancies
fancy
fathoms
fawning
fen
fidges
fiends
figureheads wikipedia
first mate
fling
foliage
Fontenoy
footy
fore
forecastle
forelock
former
formidable
forth
fouled
fowls
frenzy
frigate wikipedia
fronted
fugitive
galley
gallipot
garrison
gaskin
gattling
gauge
gentlemen of fortune: adventurer (or euphamism for ‘pirate’)
gigs
glee
glim = candle
goa
gone bail
grapple
grog
groping
gully
gunwale
hailed
hails
halloaing
hamlet: a settlement, smaller than a villiage
hand over hand
hands
hang a leg
harbours
haul your wind
haunted
haven
hawker
head sea
hearken
hearkening
held his peace
hither
hoar-frost
hold
horrors
hot-headed
hulk
humbug
hummock
hunched
incivility
inclined
incongruous
indignation
indomitable
inlets
inmates
innocence
innocent
inquired
inspiration
instinctively
intercepted
intolerable
irons
irresolute
issued
jawing
jine
jolly-boat
keel
keel-hauling wikipaedia
kegs
knoll
knuckled under
lament
land-locked
lanyard
latitude
lay to
lay to that
lee
leer
leeward
lest
liberal
Lillibulero
lingering
livery
livid
lodging
long brass nine
longitude
loopholed
lubbers
luff
lugger
lumber
lurking
madagascar
magistrate
mahogany book words: colour words
make an end of me
make no bones
malabar
man in the chains
man-o-war wikipedia
manufactory
mariner
maroons
mastheaded
mate
meat
messmates
mirth
miscellany
miscreant
mizzen-top
morrow
mortal
motioned
mourning
mucked
musket
musketry
mutilated
mutineers
mutiny
natives
nautical
nigh-hand
nimbleness
nine (a long nine)
noggin
nohow
nondescript
nought
oath
obeyed
obliged
occurred
odious
offence
offended
old bailey wikipedia
outlandish
outright
overboard
overhauled
overriding
owned = admitted
painter
paling
palisade
pannikin
parlour
particulars
passably
passion
peach
peal
pedestal
perceive
perished
personage
piety
pikes
p’int
pious
pipe
pitch
pluck
poll
portobello
postscript
powder
powder tins
predicament
predicked
predicting
prejudiced
preservation
prodigious
prodigiously
propose
prospects
prosperous
Providence
pursuit
quadrant
quaint
qualm
quart
quarter-master
quays
quid
rank
rapidity
rapped
rascal
rated
rebuff
reef
reeled
regiment
reiterated
relinquishing
reparation
repent
report
repugnance
residence
resolved upon
retired
retreat
revenue
rheumatics
rigged
riggers
ringlets
round-house
routed
roving
ruffian
rumpuncheon
sabre
sailed before the mast
savages
scarcely
schooner
schooner wikipedia
scolded
score
scoundrel
scour
scuffle
scuppers under
sea-calf
seafaring
seaworthy
sheepishly
shipmate
shipshape
shirking
short up
short-handed
shrewdness
sich
sinewy
sittyated
skulk
skulking
slewed
slight
slow
slumber
smother
smugglers
snatch
sneering
sober
soundings
sparred
sponging
spurned
spyglass
squalling
squire
ssw
standing off and on
stave
steerage
steersmen
stern
stern-port
sterns
stirrup
stockade
stowed
straits
subsided
suffice
summons
sundown
sup
superintend
superintending
supervisor
supplication
surinam
swabs
swaggering
sward
swinging
swivel
swoon
taken aback
tallowy
talons
tar
tarpaulins
The Duke of Cumberland
the more the pity
thick
thicket
thither
threshold
thus
tiff
tinder
tint
tonnage
tottering
trades
transparent
treachery
trebly
trifle
trim the boat
trump
turned his quid and spat
tyrannized
uncouth
under way
undertaking
undulating
unearthed
unintelligible
unweariedly
upon my honour
uttered
vain
valet
venture
viceroy
villainous
virtue
vise
vividly
volley
wanting
warped
watch (a watch on a ship)
weather-eye
weevil
when a mate brings a slip on his cable
whence
whit
whither
wily
withdraw
wrecked plate ships
wrench
wrest
wring
yarn
yellow jack
yielding

Link to Glossary of Nautical Terms

These all appear in Treasure Island by R L Stevenson. (Use ctrl F to search)

The vocabulary list for Treasure Island in orer of appearance, by chapter, is Vocabulary List, Treasure Island, by Chapter

Also on WordPress is Age of Sail and a link to William Falconer’s Dictionary of the Marine