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The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. Burrill.

Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill.

Banking pin (Horol.), a pin against which a lever strikes, to limit its motion. -- Pin drill (Mech.), a drill with a central pin or projection to enter a hole, for enlarging the hole, or for sinking a recess for the head of a bolt, etc.; a counterbore. -- Pin grass. (Bot.) See Alfilaria. -- Pin hole, a small hole m…

To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. "Oft in the piping shrouds." Wordsworth.

Emitting a high, shrill sound.

A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit. Burrill.

egations of the respective parties in a cause; to carry on a suit or plea. Blackstone. Burrill. Stephen.

The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species.

th or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee. Burrill. To poll a jury, to call upon each member of the jury to answer individually as to his concurrence in a verdict which has been rendered.

The art or practice of combining different colors, especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.

vent that may not happen; a contingent interest, as in real or personal estate. South. Burrill.

payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. Burrill.

red of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished. Burrill. Tomlins.

had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy. Burrill.

; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound. Burrill. Bouvier.

A command in writing; a species of writ or process. Burrill.

The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered. Burrill.

A payment of money; a toll or duty; also, the rendering of a service. Burrill.

fact, but grounded on circumstantial or probable evidence which entitles it to belief. Burrill. Best. Wharton. -- Presumption of law (Law), a postulate applied in advance to all cases of a particular class; e. g., the presumption of innocence and of regularity of records. Such a presumption is rebuttable or irrebuttab…

o employs another to act for him, -- as distinguished from an agent. Wharton. Bouvier. Burrill.