A liquor saloon, barroom, or dram-shop ; a place where intoxicatingliquor is sold to be drunk on the premises. See Leesburg v. Putnam, 103 Ga. 110, 29 S. E. 602.

In old records. A deep hollow or pit; a bog or miry place. Cowell.

In England. An officer of the royal household, who has charge of the king’s wardrobe.

Formerly an officer belonging to the royal household. Jacob.

Great; culpable. General. Absolute or entire. A thing in gross exists in itsown right, and not as an appendage to another thing.As to gross “Adventure,” “Average,” “Earnings,” “Fault,” “Negligence,” and “Weight,” see

Fr. In French marine law. The contract of bottomry. Ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit 5.

Timber. Cowell.

L. Fr. Largely, greatly. Grosscment enseint, big with child. Plowd. 76.

In old English law. A fine, or sum of money paid for a lease. Plowd.270, 271. Supposed to be a corruption of gersuma, (g. v.) See GRESSUME.

1. Soil; earth; a portion of the earth’s surface appropriated to private useand under cultivation or susceptible of cultivation.Though this term is sometimes used in conveyances and in statutes as equivalent to”land.”

A custom or tribute paid for tbe standing of shipping in port. Jacob.

A crop must be considered and treated as a growing crop fromthe time the seed is deposited in the ground, as at that time the seed loses the qualitiesof a chattel, and

A rate paid in some places for the tithe of every fat beast, ox, or other unfruitful cattle. Clayt 92.

In mining law. A contract between two parties by which one undertakesto furnish the necessary provisions, tools, and other supplies, and the other toprospect for and locate mineral lands and stake out

In old European law. A pledge. Spelman; Calvin. A custom. Spelman.Spelled also “wadla.”

He to whom a guaranty is made. This word is also used, as a noun, to denote the contract of guaranty or the obligation of a guarantor, and, as a verb, to

In Spanish law. A written authorization to a court to enforce theperformance of an agreement in the same manner as if it had been decreed uponregular legal proceedings.

He who makes a guaranty.

v. To undertake collaterally to answer for the payment of another’s debtor the performance of another’s duty, liability, or obligation; to assume the responsibilityof a guarantor; to warrant See GUARANTY, n.

A state of wardship.