"Horngeld" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL
Sax. In old English law. A tax withln a forest, paid for horned beasts. CoweU; Blount
still other winters average their rain months into a long, cold season of relentless sog and little color. At such times, looking out through the spattered glass, I feel, deep in some spongy, unignorable organ, that we will have floods, and damage, and losses; we will have gray till the cows come home, and there will be no more cows--they'll all just rot, drown, or simply wash away. We will have rain until the very hills dissolve. And when the dirty cotton swaddling of fog finally falls away, we will all be desperate for vital signs.
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(From Sax. abere, apparent, notorious; and mord, murder.) Plain or downright murder, as distinguished from the less heinous crime of …
Read the complete definitionSax. The true master or owner of a thing. Spelman
Read the complete definitionA collection of Sax-on laws, published during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, iu the Saxon language, with a* Latin version …
Read the complete definitionSax. Bearing upon the back or about the person. Applied to a thief taken with the stolen property in his …
Read the complete definitionSax. A scribe, notary, or chancellor among the Saxons
Read the complete definitionIn Sax-on and old English law. Castle work. Serv-ice and labor done by Inferior tenants for the bulldlng and upholding …
Read the complete definitionSax. Known, knowing. Uncuth, unknown. See Couthutlauuh, Uncvni
Read the complete definitionSax. A wound. Spelman
Read the complete definition(Sax. From dom, judgment, and bec, boc, a book.) Dome-book or doom-book. A name given among the Saxons to a …
Read the complete definition(Sax.) Doom; sentence; judg-fnent. An oath. The homager's oath in the black book of Hereford. Blonnt
Read the complete definition(Sax.) An ancient record made in the time of william the Conqueror, and now remain-ing in the English exchequer, consisting …
Read the complete definition(Sax.) An inferior kind of judges. Men appointed to doom (judge) in matters in controversy. Cowell. Suitors in a court …
Read the complete definitionSax. A contribution of tenants, in the time of the Saxons, towards a potation, or ale, provided to entertain the …
Read the complete definitionSax. A quit rent, or yearly payment, formerly made by some tenants to the king, or their landlords, for driving …
Read the complete definitionSax. The metropolis; the chief dty. obsolete
Read the complete definition(Fr. eale, Sax., ale, and bus, house.) An ale-house
Read the complete definitionSax. The privllege of asslslng and selling beer, obsolete
Read the complete definitionSax. A fee or rent paid by a tenant to his lord for leave to fold his sheep on hls …
Read the complete definitionSax. The liberty or privi-iege of foldage
Read the complete definitionSax. A summons to serve-in the army. An acquittance from going into-the army. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47, ( 23
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