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resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings. [Written also spur-rial, and spur-ryal.]

ckinaw. We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad. De Foe.

disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterized by profuse sweating. Death often occured in a few hours.

One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles.

n two separate parts, with larger drawers above and smaller ones below and raised on legs fifteen inches or more in height; -- called also highboy.

A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood.…

priest or minister, and followed by a response from the people. The psalms were in number fifteen, . . . being digested into versicles. Strype.

A yardland, or measure of land varying from fifteen to forty acres. [Obs.] T. Warton.

A measure of land of uncertain quantity, varying from fifteen to forty acres; a virgate. [Obs.]