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A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel.

A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it. [Written also haw-haw.]

An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote. Blackstone.

A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser.

A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden. The rou…

n of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything. So he the famed Cilician fencer praised, And, at each hit, with wonder seems amazed. Dryden.

A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement was surrounded by a hoarding, the space within which was divided into compartments by sheets of tin. Tyndall.

eism and contempt of religion the sole badge . . . of wit. South. To take huff, to take offence. Cowper.

leap in a race. Hurdle race, a race in which artificial barriers in the form of hurdles, fences, etc., must be leaped.

Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.

To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands. Blackstone.

One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.

f being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence.

xed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate. Kent. Bouvier. Burrill.

A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a highroad; an alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, ras, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice. It is become a turn-again lane unto them which they can not go through. Tyndale.

whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advocates.

To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse. Bacon. Leap in with me into this angry flood. Shak.

number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence.

ject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious. Shak. No fences, parted fields, nor marks, nor bounds, Distinguished acres of litigious grounds. Dryden.

Not rising to the usual height; as, a man of low stature; a low fence.