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kindred or the tribe. Survivals of the early odal estates and tenure exist in Orkney and Shetland, where it is usually called by the variant form udal.

y animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim. The old lion perisheth for lack of prey. Job iv. ii. Already sees herself the monster's prey. Dryden.

taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint. Mushet.

A Shetland pony.

The sheth of a plow.

, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes. The hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies. Isa. xxviii. 17. I have already swept the stakes. Dryden.

t; on that account. Every error is a stain to the beauty of nature; for which cause it blusheth thereat. Hooker.

d was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule.

In Shetland and Orkney, a freehold; property held by udal, or allodial, right.

Vars. of Odal, etc. Obs. exc. in Shetland and the Orkney Islands, where udal designates land held in fee simple without any charter and free of any feudal character.

In the Shetland and Orkney Islands, one who holds property by udal, or allodial, right. Sir W. Scott.

For what is your life It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James iv. 14.

In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung and dried, but not salted. [Scot.] [Written also vivda.] Jamieson.

An inlet, bay, or creek; -- so called in the Orkney and Shetland Islands. Jamieson.

etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, especially in the bed of a road or railroad, where the earth has been washed away.