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The whole body of barons or peers. The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet.

Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.

A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.

A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.

A giant. [Spelt often Brobdignagian.]

Expense of careening ships.

Flesh of slain animals or men. A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage. Macaulay.

Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon.

A toll for passage through a forest. [Obs.] Cowell.

Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot.

asturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke.

The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.

Anancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.

See Cozenage.

Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity. Burrill.

Relationship; kinship. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.

The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels.

The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of Cornwall.