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Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed. Mozley & W.

To bungle; to manage awkwardly; to treat or play unskillfully; as, to foozle a stroke in golf.

The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.

To scold; to nag. [Prov. Eng.]

The free coinage of silver; often, specif., the free coinage of silver at a fixed ratio with gold, as at the ratio of 16 to 1, which ratio for some time represented nearly or exactly the ratio of the market values of gold and silver respectively.

The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance. Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits. Burke.

To handle or manage awkwardly; to crowd or tumble together. Shak.

Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.

A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.

Fig.: Leadership; management. An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust. Sterne.

The manager or acting partner of a company, joint-stock association, etc.

repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or unmanageable. I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me. Sir P. Sidney.

the Kingdom of God, and salvation. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom. Matt. iv. 23. The steadfast belief of the promises of the gospel. Bentley.

To regulate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to manage; as, to govern the life; to govern a horse. Govern well thy appetite. Milton.

Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient. Locke.

The quality of being governable; manageableness.

Management; mastery. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

Management of the limbs or body. Shak.

dfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent. He was a grandfatherly sort of personage. Hawthorne.

The Texas sparrow (Embernagra rufivirgata), in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head.