self'-support, faint talent, recollect, to the best of my recollection

Again, the newspapers last year printed proposals to 
construct a Wagner Opera House, to cost, if I recollect 
rightly, ; 100,000 about as much as a hundred labourers 
may earn by fifteen or twenty years hard work.

a faint talent for painting...
....by the time she was self-supporting she had nearly forgotten her father, and her mother was dying


self'-support
(sĕlf'sə-pôrt', -pōrt')
n.
The act of or capacity for supporting oneself, especially financially, without the help of others.

self-supported self'-sup·port'ed or self'-sup·port'ing adj.





faint
adj., faint·er, faint·est.

1. Lacking strength or vigor; feeble.
2. Lacking conviction, boldness, or courage; timid.
3. 1. Lacking brightness: a faint light in the gloom.
   2. Lacking clarity or distinctness: a faint recollection.
4. Likely to fall into a faint; dizzy and weak: felt faint for a moment.

[形]

1 〈色・音・光が〉ぼんやりした, ほのかな；〈考えなどが〉はっきりしない；弱い

a faint odor of gas
かすかなガスのにおい

faint lines
（用紙の）薄けい線.

2 〈息などが〉弱々しい, わずかな, かすかな；気の乗らない, 心のこもらない, 熱意のない

a faint effort
形ばかりの努力

with faint hope
かすかな望みを持って.

3 ((叙述))〈人が〉（…で）気を失いそうな, ふらふらして, 疲れきって((with ...))

feel faint with hunger
空腹で目がかすむ

He felt suddenly faint.
突然気を失いそうになった.

4 ((文))気の弱い

Faint heart never won fair lady.
((ことわざ)) 弱気が美人を得たためしはない.

━━(自)

1 （一時的に）気が遠くなる, 気絶する((away))

faint with ［from］ hunger
空腹で気を失う.

2 ((古))弱る, 気がくじける.

3 ((古))〈音などが〉かすかになる.

━━[名]((通例a 〜))気絶, 失神

in a dead faint
気絶して, 気を失って

fall (down) ［go off］ in a faint
気を失う.

faint・ish

[形]

faint・ness

[名][U]気の弱さ；微弱；失神.

recollect 1

Pronunciation: /ˌrɛkəˈlɛkt/

verb

[with object]

• remember (something); call to mind:he could not quite recollect the reason ‘Can you recollect how he reacted?’

Origin:

early 16th century (in the sense 'gather'): from Latin recollect- 'gathered back', from the verb recolligere, from re- 'back' + colligere 'collect'

recollection

Pronunciation: /ˌrɛkəˈlɛkʃ(ə)n/

noun

[mass noun]

• the action or faculty of remembering or recollecting something:to the best of my recollection no one ever had a bad word to say about him
• [count noun] a thing recollected; a memory:a biography based on his wife’s recollections

Derivatives

recollective

adjective

Origin:

late 16th century (denoting the action of gathering things together again): from French or medieval Latin recollectio(n-), from the verb recolligere 'gather again' (see recollect¹)