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Smart; jaunty; spruce. See Smirk, a. [Obs.] So smerk, so smooth, his pricked ears. Spenser.

f property, at some period or other of their lives, are ambitious of representing their county in Parliament. Blackstone.

soul of an enterprise; an able gemeral is the soul of his army. He is the very soul of bounty! Shak.

A government aid or bounty.

seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume. Corruption swallowed what the liberal hand Of bounty scattered. Thomson.

istry. This family [the O'Hanlons] were tanists of a large territory within the present county of Armagh. M. A. Lower.

To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty. Waller. The valiant never taste of death but once. Shak.

In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.

hes into nothing. South. Transitory action (Law), an action which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, and the like; -- opposed to local action. Blackstone. Bouvier.

One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called riding. [Written also riding.] Blackstone.

e order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time. "Nobleness and bounty . . . had their turns in his [the king's] nature." His turn will come to laugh at you again. Denham . Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. Collier.

Not acknowledged or recognized. [Obs.] For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.

variegate. God hath varied their inclinations. Sir T. Browne. God hath here Varied his bounty so with new delights. Milton.

A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid. The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made. Blackstone.

nts. See Vicontiels. -- Vicontiel writs, such writs as were triable in the sheriff, or county, court.

An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.

A division of a county. [Eng. & Scot.]

Of or pertaining to a weald, esp. to the weald in the county of Kent, England. [Obs.] Fuller.

reland it is often made from malted barley. Bourbon whisky, corn whisky made in Bourbon County, Kentucky. -- Crooked whisky. See under Crooked. -- Whisky Jack (Zoöl.), the Canada jay (Perisoreus Canadensis). It is noted for its fearless and familiar habits when it frequents the camps of lumbermen in the winter season…

A county in the north of England. Yorkshire grit, a kind of stone used for polishing marble, and copperplates for engravers. Simmonds. -- Yorkshire pudding, a batter pudding baked under meat.