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A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.

Half-blooded.

A hatstand.

The wild dog-rose.

The dog-rose.

the term hire purchase is also sometimes applied to a contract in which the hirer is not free to avoid future liability by surrender of the goods. In England, however, if the hirer does not have this right the contract is a sale.

A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large. [New Eng.] Bartlett.

To generate within; to inbreed. [Obs.] Hakewill.

To produce or generate within. Bp. Reynolds. To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue. Milton.

Not discreet; wanting in discretion. So drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Shak.

To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.

The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders; -- called also ironwood.

A noisy or unrestrained carousal or frolic; a spree. [Slang] Kipling.

unt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights. [Written also jerreed, jerid.] Byron.

Lit., gilded youth; young people of wealth and fashion, esp. if given to prodigal living; -- in the French Revolution, applied to young men of the upper classes who aided in suppressing the Jacobins after the Reign of Terror.

A cloth colored green by dye obtained from the woad-waxen, formerly used by Flemish weavers at Kendal, in Westmoreland, England. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). How couldst thou know these men in Kendal green Shak.

See Creel.

A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.

Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.

. A color of cloth formerly made in Lincoln, England; the cloth itself.