A wood or grove of trees. Co. Litt 46.

In such phrases as “to tbe hurt or annoyance of another,” or “hurt, molested,or restrained in his person or estate,” this word is not restricted to physical injuries, butincludes also mental pain,

A ram or wether.

In Spanish law. Theft. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 20.

“A married man; one who has a lawful wife living. The correlative of “”wife.””Etymologically, the word signified the “”house bond;”” the man who, according toSaxon ideas and institutions, held around him the

In old English law. Husbandry. Dyer, (Fr. Ed.) 356.

Agriculture; cultivation of the soil for food; farming, in the sense ofoperating land to raise provisions. Simons v. Lovell, 7 lleisk. (Tenn.) 510; McCue v.Tunstead, 05 Cal. 500, 4 Pac. 510.

In Saxon law. The crime of housebreaking or burglary. Crabb, Eng. Law, 50, 30S.

In old English law. A house servant or domestic; a man of thehousehold. Spelman.A king’s vassal, thane, or baron; an earl’s man or vassal. A term of frequent occurrencein Domesday Book.

He who holds house and laud. Bract. 1. 3, t 2, c. 10.

In old records. House rent; or a tax or tribute laid upon a house. Cowell; Blount.

A colloquial expression to designate a bribe to hinder information;pay to secure silence.

Council; court; tribunal. Apparently so called from being held within abuilding, at a time when other courts were held iu the opeu air. It was a local court.The county court iu the

Taxes. Mon. Angl. 1. 5S6.

In old English law. Augury; divination.

In old English law. The season for sowing winter grain, betweenMichaelmas and Christmas. The land on which such grain was sown. The grain itself ;winter grain or winter corn. Cowell.

A mongrel; an animal formed of the union of different species, or differentgenera; also (metaphorically) a human being born of the union of persons of differentraces.

See HIDAGE.

An instrument for measuring the density of liuids. Being immersed iuliuids, as iu water, briue, beer, brandy, etc., it determines the proportion of theirdensity, or their specific gravity, aud theuce their quality.

Lit Iu the civil law. Winter. Dig. 43, 20, 4, 34. Written, in some ofthe old books, “yems.” Fleta, lib. 2, c. 73, S