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A servant; a farm laborer; a peasant; a hind. [Obs.] Bailiff, herd, nor other hine. Chaucer.

Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants. [Scot.]

The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of peasants.

ow of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. John vii. 17. The peasant folklore of Europe still knows of willows that bleed and weep and speak when hewn. Tylor.

To liken; to compare.[Obs.] Like me to the peasant boys of France. Shak.

s land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.

A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate. [Russia] Brande & C.

that had opened up so many delightful views into the character and condition of our "bold peasantry, their country's pride." Prof. Wilson.

To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.

Whisky; especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry. [Written also potheen, and potteen.]

To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress. To peaceful peasant to the wars is pressed. Dryden.

summer's pride. Spenser. I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. Zech. ix. 6. A bold peasantry, their country's pride. Goldsmith.

A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.

A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.

A peasant or cultivator of the soil. [India] The Indian ryot and the Egyptian fellah work for less pay than any other laborers in the world. The Nation.

A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.

ng their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France. swift.

ct of Russian dissenters founded, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship. -- Stun"dism (#), n.…

ficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable. O happy peasant! O unhappy bard! His the mere tinsel, hers the rich reward. Cowper.

d; tumultuous. "A tumultuary conflict." Eikon Basilike. A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey.