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Tending to produce thirst. Wright.

Dogate. Wright.

A nickname for auricular confession; shrift. [Obs.] Cartwright.

An adder or serpent. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

The earth. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. Erd shrew (Zoöl.), the common European shrew (Sorex vulgaris); the shrewmouse.

The dominion of an ethnarch; principality and rule. Wright.

Yellow; fal [Obs.] Wright.

Love locks. [Obs.] Wright. Challenge to the favor or for favor (Law), the challenge of a juror on grounds not sufficient to constitute a principal challenge, but sufficient to give rise to a probable suspicion of favor or bias, such as acquaintance, business relation, etc. See Principal challenge, under Challenge. --…

Faithful; loyal. [Obs.] Wright.

The act of fettling. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. In fine fettle, in good spirits.

e wings; to let fall, as the brim of a hat. To flap in the mouth, to taunt. [Obs.] W. Cartwright.

overing of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds. [prov. Eng.] Wright.

The husk or glume of oats. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. to take a flight{9}. Flight feathers (Zoöl.), the wing feathers of a bird, including the quills, coverts, and bastard wing. See Bird. -- To put to flight, To turn to flight, to compel to run away; to force to flee; to rout.

To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Wright. Jamieson.

Spotted with small tufts like wool. Wright.

A border worked with flowers. Wright.

one's footing, to pay a fee on first doing anything, as working at a trade or in a shop. Wright. -- Footing beam, the tie beam of a roof.

Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox. [Obs.] Wright.

A false spur or gaff, fitted on the heel of a gamecock. Wright.