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A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact. Burrill.

t which is connected with a tenetment, or thing holden, as a certin quantity of land a Burrill.

The quadrille. [Obs.]

ause to incline and approach nearer together. I converge its rays to a focus of dazzling brilliancy. Tyndall.

hose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. Burrill.

Alone by a senior officer present during evolutions or drills, when it commands "Silence."

A flash of intellectual brilliancy. He might have illuminated his times with the incessant cor of his genius. I. Taylor.

not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not. Burrill.

ative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house. Burrill. Sometimes he contrived, in deflance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tentants of his family, who, wretched as was their own condition, could not refuse a portion of their pit…

Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity. Burrill.

A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.

To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count. Burrill.

te roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. Burrill.

A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.

A drill or cutting tool for countersinking holes.

nal pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause. [Obs.] Burrill.

The party who makes a covenant. Burrill.

Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.

ca; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.

A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese croicin, which produces a brilliant yellow.