A tax levied in England by St. 14 Car. II. c. 10, consisting of twoshillings on every hearth or stove in the kingdom. It was extremely unpopular, and wasabolished by 1 W.

In English law. A species of modus or composition for tithes. Anstr.323. 320.

In criminal law. A state of violent and uncontrollable rage engendered by a blow or certain other provocation given, which will reduce a homicidefrom the grade of murder to that of manslaughter.

In maritime parlance and admiralty law. To stop a sailing vessel’sheadway by bringing her head “into the wind,” that is, iu the direction from which thewind blows. A steamer is said to

An unlawful fisher in the Thames below London bridge; so calledbecause they generally fished at ebbing tide or water. 4 Hen. VII. c. 15; Jacob.

In Saxon law. The privilege of having the goods of a thief, and thetrial of him. within a certain liberty. Cowell.

A device for catching fish in ebbing water. St. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 5.

A week’s man; the canon or prebendary in a cathedral church, whohad the peculiar care of the choir and the offices of it for his own week. Cowell.

In feudal law. Rent paid to a lord of the fee for a liberty to use the engines called “hocks.”

An engine to take fish In the river Ouse. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 18.

A small haven, wharf, or landing place.

Toll or customary dues at the hithe or wharf, for landing goods, etc.,from which exemption was granted by the crown to some particular persons andsocieties. Wharton.

An allowance of wood for repairing hedges or fences, which a tenantor lessee has a right to take off the land let or demised to him. 2 Bl. Comm. 35.

A vagabond priest in olden time.

The leadership of one among several independent confederate states.

The epoch or account of time used by the Arabians and the Turks, whobegin their computation from the day that Mahomet was compelled to escape fromMecca, which happened on Friday, July 16,

The leader of the monks in the Greek Church.

A young cow which has not had a calf. 2 East, P. C. 616. And see State v.McMinn, 34 Ark. 162; Mundell v. Hammond, 40 Vt. 645.

At common law. A person who succeeds, by the rules of law, to an estate in lands, tenements, or hereditaments, upon the death of his ancestor, by descent and right of relationship.

Such goods and chattels as, contrary to the nature of chattels, shallgo by special custom to the heir aloug with the inheritance, aud not to the executor.The termination “loom” (Sax.) signifies a