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The inward part of a building; the interior. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ies set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. Cowell. Estreat of a recognizance, the extracting or taking out a forfeited recognizance from among the other records of the court, for the purpose of a prosecution in another court, or it may be in the same court. Burrill.…

To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.

A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. Cowell.

A female ancestor.

To streak.

To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also bestrow.] Milton.

A war horse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species.

See Orchestra.

To strengthen again; to fortify anew.

A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.

Terrestrial; earthly. [Obs.] "His paradise terrestre." Chaucer.

Yester-evening; yesternight; last night. [R. or Scot.] Yestreen I did not know How largely I could live. Bp. Coxe.

The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

p. p. of Bestrew.

See Kestrel.

An umbelliferous plant of the genus Chærophyllum (C. temulum and C. sylvestre).

A war horse; a destrer. [Obs.] "By him baiteth his dextrer." Chaucer.

The kestrel.