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applied both to good as well as bad qualities, as in our 

 text. 



TAW, to makes hides into leather ; tawer, the maker 

 of white leather. In the fourteenth and early fifteenth 

 centuries, in the days of the strict guilds, a sharp line 

 was drawn between tawers and tanners, and a tawer was 

 not allowed to tan nor a tanner to taw (Wylie, vol. iii. 

 p. 195). No tawers were allowed to live in the Forest 

 according to the ancient forest laws. 



" If any white Tawer live in a Forest, he shall be re- 

 moved and pay a Fine, for they are the common dressers 

 of skins of stolen deer" (Itin. Lane. fol. 7, quoted by 

 Manwood, p. 161). 



TEAZER, or teaser. " A kind of mongrel greyhound 

 whose business is to drive away the deer before the 

 Greyhounds are slipt," is the definition given by Blome 

 (p. 96). These dogs were used to hunt up the game 

 also when the deer was to be shot with the bow. The 

 sportsmen would be standing at their trysts or stable- 

 stand in some alley or glade of the wood, and the hounds 

 be put into the covert or park "/^ tease them forth. ''^ 



TRACE, slot, or footprint of deer. In O. F. and 

 Ang.-N. literature the word trace seems to have been 

 used indifferently for the track of the stag, wild boar, or 

 any game (Borman, notes 147, 236, 237). G. de F. ex- 

 pressly says that the footprint of the deer should not be 

 called trace but voyes or pies (view or foot), yet the 

 " Master of Game " in his rendering says : " Of the hart 

 ye shall say 'trace,'" so evidently that was the proper 

 sporting term in England at the time. When slot en- 

 tirely superseded the word trace amongst sportsmen it is 

 difficult to determine. Turbervile uses slot, and in the 

 beginning of the seventeenth century it seems the general 

 term for the footprint of deer (Man., p. 180 ; Stuart 

 Glossary, vol. ii. ; Blome, p. 76). Slot, it may be con- 



