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n ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.

One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.

The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. xi. 9.

e speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.

To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.

Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.

To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. [Western U.S.]

In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. Halliwell.

An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction.

A disease of hawks. See Filanders. Wright.

A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.

A man of bad character. [Obs.] Holland.

A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.

An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.

A bath; a bagnio. [Obs.] Holland.

To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses. Holland.

A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.

A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside. Bad plowmen made balks of such ground. Fuller.

To stick together.[Obs.] Holland.

Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea.