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uished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own. Burrill.

e them to enhance the price when there. This was an offense at law in England until 1844. Burrill.

Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.

The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase. Burrill.

A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold. Burrill.

n of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms. Burrill.

Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. Burrill.

in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held. Kent. Burrill. To abate into a freehold. See under Abate.

mber of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman. Burrill. Both having been made freemen on the same day. Addison.

called by the Normans frankpledge. See Frankpledge. [Written also friburgh and fribourg.] Burril.

The jurisdiction of a tribunal. Burrill.

restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill.

A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise. Burrill. He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish. Jer. Taylor.

y, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.

Liable to taxation. [Obs.] Burrill.

y by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession. Bouvier. Burrill. Gift rope (Naut), a rope extended to a boat for towing it; a guest rope.

One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidæ; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.

A small marine isopod crustacean (Limnoria lignorum or L. terebrans), which burrows into and rapidly destroys submerged timber, such as the piles of wharves, both in Europe and America.

r entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; -- commonly called general average. Bouvier. Burrill. -- Gross receipts, the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; -- distinguished from net profits. Abbott. -- Gross weight the total weight of merchandise or goods, without de…

, one of numerous species of carnivorous beetles of the family Carabidæ, living mostly in burrows or under stones, etc. -- Ground chamber, a room on the ground floor. -- Ground cherry. (Bot.) (a) A genus (Physalis) of herbaceous plants having an inflated calyx for a seed pod: esp., the strawberry tomato (P. Alkekengi…