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r greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house. Modesty is the appendage of sobriety. Jer. Taylor.

Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.

Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. Zeal too had a place among the rest, with a bandage over her eyes. Addison.

Much talking; prattle; chatter. Byron.

The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah. Malcom.

To daggle.

A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

captivity. The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved he would not make my bondage hard. Dryden.

A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field. [Scot.]

The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.

Mass of clouds; cloudiness. [R.] A scudding cloudage of shapes. Coleridge.

Ropes or cords, collectively; hence, anything made of rope or cord, as those parts of the rigging of a ship which consist of ropes.

A privilege of setting up, and moving about, folds for sheep, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. Spelman.

See Dunnage.

Inundation. [R.] Carlyle.

See Faldage.

A feeding on nuts or mast. [Obs.] Crabb.

A local tax paid by a ship for the ground or space it occupies while in port. Bouvier.

Wardship [Obs.] Shak.