Dictionary+16-17


 * **__//Chapter 16//__** ||  ||
 * **constable** p. 76 || A police officer; a sheriff. ||
 * **cahoots** p. 77 || A secret partnership. ||
 * **accommodations** p.78 || To provide with a room and sometimes with food. ||
 * **gander** p. 80 || To take a look or glance. ||
 * **__//Chapter 17//__** ||  ||
 * **scissored** p. 82 || Any movement of the legs which suggests the opening and closing of scissors. ||
 * **peculiar** p. 83 || Something that is uncommon or unusual. ||
 * **threadbare** p.83 || Having the covering worn down so that the filling or warp threads show through; frayed or shabby. ||
 * **teeming** p.85 || Abounding or swarming with something, as with people. ||
 * **dissolved** p.86 || To separate into parts or elements; disintegrate. ||