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Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.

Fence :: Fence (v. i.) To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only..

Incloser :: Incloser (n.) One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds..

Fencing :: Fencing (v. i.) The materials used for building fences.

Fence :: Fence (n.) A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking..

Close :: Close (v. t.) An inclosed place; especially, a small field or piece of land surrounded by a wall, hedge, or fence of any kind; -- specifically, the precinct of a cathedral or abbey..

Stake :: Stake (v. t.) A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc..

Fence :: Fence (n.) Self-defense by the use of the sword; the art and practice of fencing and sword play; hence, skill in debate and repartee. See Fencing..

Breachy :: Breachy (a.) Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle..

Prop :: Prop (v. t.) To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state..

Pale :: Pale (n.) That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.

Viewer :: Viewer (n.) A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same..

Waste :: Waste (a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay..

Improvement :: Improvement (n.) Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises..

Swordsmanship :: Swordsman (n.) One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.

Offence :: Offence (n.) The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury..

Waste :: Waste (v.) Spoil, destruction, or injury, done to houses, woods, fences, lands, etc., by a tenant for life or for years, to the prejudice of the heir, or of him in reversion or remainder..

Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation..

Presentment :: Presentment (n.) The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them, as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like; also, an inquisition of office and indictment by a grand jury; an official accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an indictment, or the act of offering an indictment; also, the indictment itself..

Fence :: Fence (v. i.) To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence..

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