What is a thesaurus for?

A thesaurus is an ordered compilation of terms in a subject area.

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Due to the age in which The Grimm File is taking place, there may be some words or obsolete terms and descriptions from earlier language usage in the texts. 

To make it a little easier for you, I would like to collect these words for you here. 

The explanations are not mine and I do not claim any rights to them.

If you notice any other words, please feel free to leave a comment or send me a message. :)

Arcan / Arcane Arts - Arcane means elevated, educationally: secret, closed, inaccessible, secretive, clandestine. The Arcane Arts therefore refers to occult practices or the use of magic.

Bobby - Obsolete term for law enforcer; policeman or the like.

Corporal- The corporal (from Latin corpus 'body, womb') is a starched, usually square, white linen cloth with sides about 45 to 50 cm long. They are used as altar cloth to catch stains from wine or brood crumbs on the altar.

Colporteur / Kolportage- Persons/reporters for spreading rumours, unsubstantiated news and society gossip, for example in tabloids, gossip rags and the or the tabloids.

Custodian Helmet - The typical headgear worn by the British police.

Collar- The collar, also called Roman collar, Roman collar or Pius collar, is the white, ring-shaped, worn by various priests.

Candlestick - Usually a magnificent chandelier richly decorated with prisms of glass or the like, or a particularly noble candlestick.

Crescendo - Gradually becoming louder, increasing in volume.

Catalyst - A catalyst is a special form of artefact whose task is to absorb magic and strengthen it.

Chic / fashinable/ swanky - german: Mondän = Showing an extravagant elegance. Elegant, Extravagant.

Drohsky - A light, one- or two-horse vehicle for transporting people.

Hallows Eve - Halloween, from 'The Eve before All Saints'. Folk customs on the evening and night before All Saints' Day, from 31 October to 1 November.

Irides - The iris (plural iris, irides or irides; from ancient Greek 'rainbow') The smooth iris muscles regulate the amount of light entering the eye by changing the diameter of the pupil.

Lenze - Poetically: the first season of the year, spring. Usually plural: age of a person.

Leghold trap - A leghold trap is a trap made of steel with two catching shackles that is used in trapping.

Mär / Mären dt. for Fable - A Mär or is in the original sense a report or tale; in contemporary language the term is used mainly pejoratively for and other stories or ideas that have turned out to be false.

Pinch - The Pinch (also called Kneifer or Klemmer, in southern German also Zwickel) is a pair of spectacles without temples, which are clamped ("pinched") on the nose by means of a flexible, resilient bridge between the lenses.

Paraphernalia - Paraphernalia refers to the tools and objects required in ritual magic, shamanism and other magical practices.

Peat/peat sod/peat digger - Peat digging or peat digging is the above-ground extraction of peat. Peat is an organic material produced in peatlands by incipient carbonisation from dead plants. It is lifted out of the bog in the form of large lumps. These rectangular 'lumps' are called peat sods and are then dried out in a drying yard. Those who extract and cut peat are called peat diggers.

Sacristy - adjoining room in the church used to prepare the minister [or ministers] for the service and to store items needed for the service.

Tippet - A Tippet (also pellerine or pelarine, from French pèlerine "pilgrim") is a short shoulder cloak resembling a cape, worn over the coat.

Talar - A wide-sleeved, ankle-length, usually black garment worn by clergy.

The Strand Hotel - The Strand Palace Hotel is a large hotel on the north side of the Strand in London, England, close to Covent Garden, Aldwych, Trafalgar Square and the River Thames. It is also one of the classiest and most expensive hotels in London.

Unit of measurement: inch - The inch has been a unit of length used in England since the 7th century. The official international definition took place in 1959. 1 inch is therefore exactly 2.5400 centimetres.

Unken - Toad species. Toads live aquatically, in swamps, bogs, small ponds and pools, and in small, slow-moving streams.

White Plague - White plague is a term for tuberculosis. It is an infectious disease transmitted by bacteria. In the past it was also known as consumption.