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Light land; rosland. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.

Loose; light. [Obs.] Mortimer.

To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). Mortimer.

e cropped by cattle. Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes. Mortimer.

Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct. [Obs.] To ruffle it out in a riotous ruff. Latimer.

nd girls run up rapidly. if the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves. Mortimer.

is hand, more sad than lump of lead. Spenser. Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad. Mortimer.

] Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands. Mortimer.

ury. [Written also salade.] Then he must have a sallet wherewith his head may be saved. Latimer.

To mangle. [Obs.] Mortimer.

ittle mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. Mortimer.

See Crawl. [Obs.] Latimer.

Same as Sea mud. Mortimer.

To sift; to bolt. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Cerecloth. Mortimer.

seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. [Obs.] Mortimer. But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. Evelyn.

A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer. [Obs.] Latimer.

ides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs. [Obs.] Fuller's earth left a thick settlement. Mortimer.

ing or envelope. White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand. Mortimer.

pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their span. Mortimer. Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor. Shak.