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joining, kept for the proprietor's own use. [Written also demain.] Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill. Ancient demesne. (Eng. Law) See under Ancient.

A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.

litary station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.

A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper. Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron. Sir W. Scott.

A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.

A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

ging to the class Dictyogenæ, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceæ, Smilaceæ, Trilliaceæ, etc.

The pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay. Burrill.

One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company. A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate. Byron.

is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first time through the brain a phonetic expression; -- jocosely so called from the analogy of the sound of a bell induced by the stroke of the clapper.

To thrill; to vibrate; to penetrate. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, Obey the rules and discipline of art. Dryden.

; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office. Burrill.

claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate. Burrill.

To deprive of commonable quality, as lands, by inclosing or appropriating. Burrill.

and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered. Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.

ously unknown or unrecognized; as, Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. A brilliant career of discovery and conquest. Prescott. We speak of the "invention" of printing, the discovery of America. Trench.

a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety. Burrill.

ure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands. Burrill.

ing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. Bouvier. Kent. Burrill. If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle. Spenser. The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for. Blackstone. Abuse of distress. (Law) See under Abuse.…