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Assize :: Assize (n.) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural.

Longspur :: Longspur (n.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur (C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (C. ornatus), and other species, inhabit the United States..

Tetterwort :: Tetterwort (n.) A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot..

Lee :: Lee (n.) A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship..

Brill :: Brill (n.) A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret..

Denude :: Denude (v. t.) To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands..

Rule :: Rule (a.) A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but man forms its plural men, and is an exception to the rule..

Flemish :: Flemish (a.) Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings..

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Channel :: Channel (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel..

Gunner :: Gunner (n.) One who works a gun, whether on land or sea; a cannoneer..

Geophila :: Geophila (n. pl.) The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.

Jantu :: "Jantu (n.) A machine of great antiquity, used in Bengal for raising water to irrigate land..

Agistor :: Agistor (n.) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker..

Fourpence :: Fourpence (n.) A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents..

Light :: Light (n.) The manner in which the light strikes upon a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; -- opposed to shade. Cf. Chiaroscuro.

Frame :: Frame (n.) A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning frame, etc..

Uplandish :: Uplandish (a.) Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands.

Scrofula :: Scrofula (n.) A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may

Gillie Gilly :: Gillie Gilly (n.) A boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands..

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