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A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.

s, and contains a relatively high percentage of protein. It is chiefly useful as feed for farm animals.

nce to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment.

est or a very small interest in the proceeds, as distinguished from the ancient system of farming them out.

ervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.

name is also applied to related Asiatic species. The rook . . . should be treated as the farmer's friend. Pennant.

of lasting; a stout worsted stuff, woven with a satin twill, used for women's shoes. -- Farmer's satin. See under Farmer. -- Satin bird (Zoöl.), an Australian bower bird. Called also satin grackle. -- Satin flower (Bot.) See Honesty, 4. -- Satin spar. (Min.) (a) A fine fibrous variety of calcite, having a pearly l…

scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy. Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser).

A small reddish brown sweet and juicy pear. It originated on a farm near Philadelphia, afterwards owned by a Mr. Seckel.

richly set, Each lady wore a radiant coronet. Dryden. Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms. Wordsworth.

or a bust; as, to sit to a painter. To sit at, to rest under; to be subject to. [Obs.] "A farmer can not husband his ground so well if he sit at a great rent". Bacon. -- To sit at meat or at table, to be at table for eating. -- To sit down. (a) To place one's self on a chair or other seat; as, to sit down when tired.…

A kind of oats. Farm. Encyc.

A coarse round farm basket. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Tusser.

A slovenly farmer; a jobbing tailor. [Prov. Eng.]

, I thee pray. Chaucer. An air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer. Sir W. Scott. -- Slut"tish*ly, adv. -- Slut"tish*ness, n.

A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over the other dress, as by farm laborers. Macaulay.

Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property.

A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes. My spud these nettles from the stone can part. Swyft.

One who is half squire and half farmer; -- used humorously. [Eng.] C. Kingsley.

An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair. [Eng.] Cf. 3d Mop, 2. Halliwell. Statute book, a record of laws or legislative acts. Blackstone. -- Statute cap, a kind of woolen cap; -- so called because enjoined to be worn by a statute, dated i…