A small coasting vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used In conveying passengersand goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. Webster.

The master or captain of a hoy.

A petty dealer and retailer of small articles of provisions, particularlyfarm and garden produce. Mays v. Cincinnati, 1 Ohio St 272; Lebanon County v. Kline,2 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 622.

In old pleading. Hitherto. 2 Mod. 24.

In old English law. A loud outcry with which felons (such as robbers,burglars, and murderers) were anciently pursued, and which all who heard it werebound to take up, and join in the

L. Fr. A door. “Al huis del es- glise,” at the door of the church. Bendloe, 133.

A ship used to transport horses. Also termed “uffer.”

In French law. Marshals; ushers; process-servers; sheriffs’ officers.Ministerial officers attached to the courts, to effect legal service of process required bylaw in actions, to issue executions, etc., and to maintain order during

In old records. A hulk or small vessel. Cowell.

In old records. A hill. 2 Mon. Augl. 292; Cowell.

A moist place. Mon. Angl.

Under the Saxon organization of England, each county or shire comprisedan indefinite number of hundreds, each hundred containing ten tit kings, orgroups of ten families of freeholders or frankpledges. The hundred was

A denomination of weight containing, according to the Englishsystem, 112 pounds; but in this country, generally, it consists of 100 pounds avoirdupois.

In old English law. A hundredary or hundredor. A name given tothe chief officer of a hundred, as well as to the freeholders who composed it. Spel. voc.”Hundredus.”

The chief or presiding officer of a hundred

The presiding officer in the hundred court Anc. Inst. Eng.

In English law. The inhabitants or freeholders of a hundred, ancientlythe suitors or judges of the hundred court. Persons impaneled or fit to be impaneledupon juries, dwelling within the hundred where the

A jury so irreconcilably divided in opinion that they cannot agree upon any verdict.

In English criminal law. A kind of sledge, on which convicted felons weredrawn to the place of execution.

A storm of great violence or intensity, of which the particularcharacteristic is the high velocity of the wind. There is naturally no exact measure todistinguish between an ordinary storm and a hurricane,