What word can mean a person's condition or disposition, or a political unit of the U.S.?

What Spanish-derived word names a person of low social status or a day laborer? What is a person who hates or fears books called? What is a person who makes barrels called? A hoarse person is said to have a frog in what part of the body? What are a person's temperature, pulse and respiration rates collectively called? What word names a dog's sound or a tree's outer covering? A Peter Gabriel song is named for which activist whose 1977 death in police custody made him a martyr? Complete the title of Peter Hoeg's bestseller: "___'s Sense of Snow"?