All terms in this list:

grief: Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial; grievance.

slough: The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.

wallow: To roll one's self about, tilted; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.

hearth: A brick, stone or cement floor to a fireplace or oven, bottom of a mantle

sorrow: sad, unhappiness, woe

selchie: ring

mantel: the shelf above a fireplace which may be also a structural support for the masonry of the chimney

wail: A loud cry or shriek.

spyglasses: binoculars

sheared: cut off sharply