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little island in a river or lake. See Ait. [Written also ait, ayt, eey, eyet, and eyght.] Blackstone.

To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment. Blackstone.

an that mentioned in the feoffment; an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent. Blackstone. -- Fee farm rent (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple. -- Fee fund (Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the clerks and other court officers are paid. -- Fee simple (Law), an…

A feud. See 2d Feud. Blackstone.

vice; the tenant of a feud or fief. The grantee . . . was styled the feudatory or vassal. Blackstone. [He] had for feudatories great princes. J. H. Newman.

A surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor. Blackstone.

ause to be made of the goods, chattels, or real estate of the defendant, the sum claimed. Blackstone. Cowell.

rry figure. I made some figure there. Dryden. Gentlemen of the best figure in the county. Blackstone.

oods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson. Blackstone.

shall be subject to the statutes of mortmain, and forfeitable, like the lands themselves. Blackstone.

p for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. -- Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.

claim of inheritance; to emancipate (as a with his own consent) from paternal authority. Blackstone.

s by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc. Such persons as may lawfully hunt, fish, or fowl. Blackstone. Fowling piece, a light gun with smooth bore, adapted for the use of small shot in killing birds or small quadrupeds.

he blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten. [Obs.] Blackstone.

ouse full of people. Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular. Blackstone.

Hearth money. Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone.

ecies of animals . . . distinguished from the rest by the well-known appellation of game. Blackstone. Confidence game. See under Confidence. -- To make game of, to make sport of; to mock. Milton.

One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone.

Good consideration (Law). (a) A consideration of blood or of natural love and affection. Blackstone. (b) A valuable consideration, or one which will sustain a contract. -- Good fellow, a person of companionable qualities. [Familiar] -- Good folk, or Good people, fairies; brownies; pixies, etc. [Colloq. Eng. & Scot.]…

t gray eye of a dove. These gray and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks. Sir I. Newton.