what was going to be fenced off for the superannuated animals

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Chapters 9-10

What would happen if the Russian Revolution of 1917 took place on a minor English farm? This provocative novella blends legend, satire, and allegory while grappling with some of the twentieth-century's most consequential political ideas.

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poultice
a medical dressing spread on a material and applied to the skin

Clover treated the hoof with poultices of herbs which she prepared by chewing them, and both she and Benjamin urged Boxer to work less
hard.
pension
regular payment to allow a person to subsist without working

Liberal old-historic period pensions had been agreed upon.
superannuated
likewise one-time to be useful

Now that the small field beyond the orchard had been set bated for barley, it was rumoured that a corner of the large pasture was to be fenced off and turned into a grazing-ground for superannuated animals.
piebald
having sections or patches colored differently and brightly

The young pigs were piebald, and as Napoleon was the simply boar on the farm, information technology was possible to gauge at their parentage.
tureen
large deep serving dish with a cover

And the news soon leaked out that every pig was now receiving a ration of a pint of beer daily, with half a gallon for Napoleon himself, which was ever served to him in the Crown Derby soup tureen.
outset
brand upwardly for

But if in that location were hardships to be borne, they were partly starting time by the fact that life nowadays had a greater nobility than it had had before.
spontaneous
said or washed without having been planned in advance

Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration, the object of which was to celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Animal Farm.
complicity
guilt as a confederate in a criminal offence or criminal offense

On the aforementioned day it was given out that fresh documents had been discovered which revealed further details about Snowball's complicity with Jones.
canter
a polish three-vanquish gait

Clover tried to stir her stout limbs to a gallop, and achieved a canter.
uproarious
marked by boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter

That night there was the sound of uproarious singing, which was followed by what sounded like a violent quarrel and ended at about eleven o'clock with a tremendous crash of glass.
inebriate
a chronic drinker

Jones too was expressionless—he had died in an inebriates' abode in another office of the country.
morose
showing a brooding ill humor

Only old Benjamin was much the same as ever, except for being a little greyer about the muzzle, and, since Boxer's death, more than morose and taciturn than ever.
taciturn
habitually reserved and uncommunicative

But old Benjamin was much the same as e'er, except for being a lilliputian greyer about the muzzle, and, since Boxer's death, more than morose and taciturn than ever.
filial
relating to or feature of or conforming an offspring

They accepted everything that they were told about the Rebellion and the principles of Animalism, peculiarly from Clover, for whom they had an virtually filial respect; simply it was doubtful whether they understood very much of it.
dynamo
a coil that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet

The animals were difficult at work building yet another windmill; when that one was finished, so it was said, the dynamos would exist installed.
frugal
avoiding waste

The truest happiness, he said, lay in working difficult and living frugally.
insoluble
without hope of solution

In that location was null with which they could compare their present lives: they had zero to go upon except Pig's lists of figures, which invariably demonstrated that everything was getting better and better. The animals found the trouble insoluble; in whatsoever example, they had little time for speculating on such things at present.
subsist
support oneself

He would cease his remarks, he said, by emphasising once over again the friendly feelings that subsisted, and ought to subsist, between Animal Farm and its neighbours.
witticism
a message whose ingenuity has the power to evoke laughter

Here information technology became apparent that Mr. Pilkington was most to spring some carefully prepared witticism on the company, only for a moment he was too overcome by amusement to be able to utter information technology.
subversive
in opposition to an established organisation or government

For a long time there had been rumours—circulated, he had reason to think, by some malignant enemy—that there was something subversive and fifty-fifty revolutionary in the outlook of himself and his colleagues.
suppress
put down by force or authority

Hitherto the animals on the farm had had a rather foolish custom of addressing one another as "Comrade." This was to be suppressed.
dregs
sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid

There was the same hearty cheering as earlier, and the mugs were emptied to the dregs.
eminent
having an illustrious reputation; respected

There, round the long tabular array, sat half a dozen farmers and half a dozen of the more than eminent pigs, Napoleon himself occupying the seat of honour at the head of the tabular array.
incumbent
necessary every bit a duty or responsibleness; morally binding

But before doing so, in that location were a few words that he felt it incumbent upon him to say.
misgiving
uneasiness about the fettle of an action

At that place had been a time—not that he, or whatever of the nowadays company, had shared such sentiments—but in that location had been a time when the respected proprietors of Animal Farm had been regarded, he would non say with hostility, but perhaps with a certain measure of misgiving, by their human neighbours.