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A castrated bull. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

The hedge sparrow. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The thing possessed; property. Sir M. Halle.

Selecting; tending to select. This selective providence of the Almighty. Bp. Hall.

nsing of justice, and was given high military commands. Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale. Milton. Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his de…

arp. "Sensibleness and sorrow for sin." Hammond. The sensibleness of the divine presence. Hallywell.

Burial. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

effect; sequel; consequence; result. The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment. Bp. Hall.

respect of their lord, though, as it seems, without any legal redress if injured by him. Hallam.

The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state. [R.] Bp. Hall.

A contest in boxing, in an argument, or the like. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Each particular taken singly; distinction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

ly made of feathers tied to a string, hung up to prevent deer from breaking into a place. Halliwell.

ockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin. Halliwell.

ty, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire. An indefinite number of these hundreds make up a county or shire. Blackstone.

Shrill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest. [Obs.] Halliwell.

a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money. We shall be short in our provision. Shak.

er or other liquid. -- Shot window, a window projecting from the wall. Ritson, quoted by Halliwell, explains it as a window that opens and shuts; and Wodrow describes it as a window of shutters made of timber and a few inches of glass above them.

The refuse of cattle taken from a drove. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.