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Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel. Spenser.

other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.

To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.

Any one of numerous species of small apterous insects belonging to the order Thysanura. They have two elastic caudal stylets which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable distance. See Collembola, and Podura.

Manuring with dung. [Obs.] Bacon.

Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. L'estrange.

n justice charge thee . . . That thou commend it strangely to some place Where chance may nurse or end it. Shak.

growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant. When, by a cold penury, I blast the abilities of a nation, and stunt the growth of its active energies, the ill or may do is beyond all calculation. Burke.

ting of lands by inferior lords to their dependents, to be held by themselves by feudal tenure. Craig.

To give suck to; to nurse at the breast. Addison. The breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier. Shak. They are not weak, suckled by Wisdom. Landor.

A young child or animal nursed at the breast.

To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same. [Eng.] Jacob (Law Dict.).

birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus).

In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election.

To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

An armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-band…

A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.

One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life. [Slang, Western U.S.]

is a tenement, the possessor of it a "tenant," and the manner of possession is called "tenure." Blackstone.