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The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself. [Eng.] Burton.

Capable of culti [Obs.] Burton.

A fish of the turbot kind; the brill. [Written also burt, bret, or brut.] [Prov. Eng.]

To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell. The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment. Leslie Stephen.

g about hanging your Canada sheriff was bunkum . . . slavery speeches are all bunkum. Haliburton. To speak for Buncombe, to speak for mere show, or popularly.

The act or process of curling the hair. [Obs.] burton.

A sensualist. Burton.

A work divided into a hundred parts. [R.] Burton.

A public house; an alehouse. [Scot.] They call an alehouse a change. Burt.

The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton.

ompel or constrain; compulsory; restrictive. Any coactive power or the civil kind. Bp. Warburton.

-- Co*er"cive*ness, n. Coercive power can only influence us to outward practice. Bp. Warburton. Coercive or Coercitive force (Magnetism), the power or force which in iron or steel produces a slowness or difficulty in imparting magnetism to it, and also interposes an obstacle to the return of a bar to its natural stat…

much purity and integrity . . . coexisting with so much decay and so many infirmities. Warburton.

A member of a college. Burton.

opposition; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton. Sensitive to the most trifling collisions. W. Irving.

The black grime or soot of coal. [Obs.] Burton.

Fictitious or imaginary; unreal; as, a commentitious system of religion. [Obs.] Warburton.

To compress; to shut up. [Obs.] Burton.

t cause of this reformation. Sir J. Davies. The concurrent testimony of antiquity. Bp. Warburton.

Preserved; pickled. [Obs.] Burton.