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Seamanship. [Obs.] Udalt.

a slave. (c) The person to whom an apprentice is articled. (d) A sovereign, prince, or feudal noble; a chief, or one exercising similar authority. (e) The head of a household. (f) The male head of a school or college. (g) A male teacher. (h) The director of a number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast.…

To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. [Obs.] Udall.

A she puppy; a pet dog. [Obs.] Udall.

One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.

To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts. [Obs.] Udall.

s and tenure exist in Orkney and Shetland, where it is usually called by the variant form udal.

or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence. Udall. Man, . . . the paragon of animals ! Shak. The riches of sweet Mary's son, Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon. Emerson.

sites were called such smell-feasts as would seek to be free guests at rich men's tables. Udall.

; a noria. -- Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall.

To stuff with food. [Obs.] Udall.

To pen; to confine. [R.] ended within the limits . . . of Greece. Udall.

The act of perishing. [R.] Udall.

Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured. Udall. Pill beetle (Zoöl.), any small beetle of the genus Byrrhus, having a rounded body, with the head concealed beneath the thorax. -- Pill bug (Zoöl.), any terrestrial isopod of the genus Armadillo, having the habit of rolling itself i…

Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.

At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.

æa, having a cylindrical body with a terminal anal opening, and usually with one or two caudal gills.

the king on the writ or commencement of a suit by fine. Blackstone. -- Primer seizin (Feudal Law), the right of the king, when a tenant in capite died seized of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir, if of full age, one year's profits of the land if in possession, and half a year's profits if the land was in reversi…

Tallness; comeliness. [Obs.] Udall.

Having a caudal fin extending around the end of the vertebral column, like that which is first formed in the embryo of fishes; diphycercal.