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Timber tree, a tree suitable for timber. -- Timber worm (Zoöl.), any larval insect which burrows in timber. -- Timber yard, a yard or place where timber is deposited.

r habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid.

l and team (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins. Burrill. -- Toll bar, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers. -- Toll bridge, a bridge where toll is paid for passing over it. -- Toll corn, corn taken as pay for…

anic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. [U.S.] Burrill.

To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel. J. Burroughs.

A person appointed according to law to try challenges of jurors; a trior. Burrill.

A burrowing South American rodent (Ctenomys Braziliensis). It has small eyes and ears and a short tail. It resembles the pocket gopher in size, form, and habits, but is more nearly allied to the porcupines. [Written also tucu-tuco.]

e lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.

Allodial; -- a term used in Finland, Shetland, and Orkney. See Allodial. Burrill.

An ell; also, a yard. Burrill.

essee for years, for any fewer or less number of years than he himself holds; a sublease. Burrill.

ed, no geld, or fine, should be paid, or composition made by him that killed him. Cowell. Burrill.

ed or settled. Unliquidated damages (Law), penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.

rofits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance. Burrill.

possession of an immovable thing, in order that he might be declared the legal possessor. Burrill.

or where all the heirs are unknown, or where all the known heirs to it have renounced it. Burrill.

land of superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; a feudal tenant. Burrill.

ad tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron. Burrill. "A worthy vavasour." Chaucer. [Also written vavasour, vavassor, valvasor, etc.] Vavasours subdivide again to vassals, exchanging land and cattle, human or otherwise, against fealty. Motley.

The right of pasturing animals in a forest. Burrill.

The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill.