GLOSSAUIAL INDEX. 



1243 



Dicecious plant, a plant bearing its male blossoms on 

 one plant and its female on another, s. 31-SI p. 517. 



Disbarked Umber, timber deprived of its bark, 

 s. 4053. p. 660. 



Dished, applied to a wheel, explained, s. 3732. p. 605. 



Dishes, in farming, hollow places in the fields, in 

 which the water lies, p. 802. 



Diuretics, food or drink causing a copious dis. 

 charge of urine, s. 6410. p. 975. 



Docking and nicking, cutting off part of a horse's 

 tail, and cutting a notch or nick on the under side 

 of what remains, for the alleged purpose of making 

 him carry it well; now almost obsolete, s. 6669. 

 p. 1002. 



Domical, shaped like a dome or an arch, s. 4507. p. 740. 



Dorsal vertebra, joints of the back bone, s. 6764. 

 p. 1013. 



Double broaches, broaches or splits are two-feet 

 lengths of split hazel branches.employed in thatch- 

 ing, p. 578. 



Double wind-rows, double ranges of new-made hav, 

 s.5797. p. 904. 



Dowel together, to join so closely as to form a 

 smooth surface, s. 3710. p. 600. 



Down shares, breast ploughs to pare off the turf on 

 downs, s. 3215. p. 521. 



Dragoon, a variety of pigeon, p. 1095. 



Drain sluice, explained, s. 4409. p. 726. 



Draw cut, explained, s. 3151, 3152. p. 512. 



Droscheys, the name of a four-wheeled carriage 

 in Russia, s. 6741. p. 1010. 



Dry sto?ic ivalls, walls built without mortar; a 

 common practice in stony countries, s. 3065. p. 497. 



Duodenum, the first of the intestines, and con- 

 nected with the stomach, s. 6405. p. 975. 



Duct, a passage through which any thing is con- 

 ducted. 



Dynamometer, or draught machine, explained, 

 s. 2563—2565. p. 385. 



Earth, as applied to the surface of the globe, one 

 or more of the earths, as lime, clay, sand, fee, in 

 a friable or divided state, and either alone or 

 mixed ; but without the addition of much organic 

 matter. 



Emphysematous swellings, swellings filled with a 

 windy humour, s. 6946. p. 1033. 



Enteritis, explained, s. 6466. p. 982. 



Ergot of rye, spur of rye ; a disease in the kernels 

 of that grain, p. 822. 



Eruca, the larva state of insects, p. 1112. 



Estuary, an arm of the sea, the mouth of a lake 

 or river in which the tide ebbs and flows, s. 3425. 

 p. 555. 



Etiolated, drawn out into a weak state, p. 808. 



Eustachian tube, explained, s. 6385. p. 972. 



Evolve, to unfold, disentangle, develope, or separate. 



Eye in plants, a bud. 



Eyes in cheese, explained, s. 7067. p. 1016. 



F. 



Fagri, or shagreen, ass's skin, s. 6757. p. 1012. 

 False ribs, explained, s. 6312. p._964. 



Farcy, explained, s. 6495. p. 985. 



Farmer (from fermier, Fr.), farming agriculturist, 

 farming cultivator, professional farmer, commer- 

 cial farmer, rent-paying farmer, &c. ; a proprietor 

 cultivating his own estate is not correctly speaking 

 a farmer ; to be such he must pay a rent. A pro- 

 prietor who cultivates his own soil may be a gen- 

 tleman or yeoman agriculturist or husbandman, 

 a propriilaire cultivateur, but not a farmer. 



Farmery, the homestall or farm- yard, p. 677. 



Farming, renting land and cultivating it, or em- 

 ploying it for the purposes of husbandry. 



Feather boarding, sometimes called weather board- 

 ing, boarding, in which the edge of one board 

 overlaps a small portion of the board next it. 



Feculence of cider, the lees or dregs, p. 673. 



Fee farmhold, explained, s. 3394. p. 551. 



Feeding pastures, pastures used for feeding stock, 

 p. 90a. 



Feiring, explained, s. 3251. p. 527. 



Felon, a disease in cattle, explained, s. 6942. p. 10..-2. 



Femur, the thigh-bone, p. 965. 



Ferrugincous waters, water impregnated with iron, 

 p. 724. 



Feu-holding, explained, s. 3402. p. 552. 



Feu a house, to hold a house on a feu right, 

 s. 3861. p. 624. 



Fibula, explained, s. 6327. p. 965 

 Fi/cuse, explained, s. 7599. p. 1105. 



Pinched, explained, s. 6779. p. 1015. 



Fingers and toes, explained, p. S61. 



Fin/kins, a variety of pigeon, p. Ii 



Finos, the second best wool oil' .Merino sheep, s. 7140. 



p. 1052. 

 Firlot of tares, a measure used in Scotland, in 



wheat and beans, equivalent to the English bushel, 



s. 5268. p. 842. 

 Flakes, hurdles or portable pales for fencing, 



s. 3046. p. 493. 

 Fleaking, explained, s. 3190. p. 518. 

 Flecked cattle, explained, s. 6780. p. 1015. 

 Flight. See Glume. 

 Flooders, explained, s. 4449. p. 731. 

 Flow bog, or flow moss, a peat bog, the surface of 



which is liable to rise and fall with every increase 



or diminution of water, whether from rains or 



internal springs, s. 3028. p. 585. 

 Flawing meadows, explained, s. 4427. p. 727. 

 Fluke, a disease in sheep, p. 10+9. 

 Fluke ivorms, animals of the genus Fasclola, s. 7271. 



p. 1066. 

 Fcetus, a young animal in the womb, p. 976. 

 Fogging pasture lands, explained, s. 5837. p. 908. 

 Foliage crops, plants. cultivated for their leaves to 



be used green, and which will not make into hay, 



as the cabbage tribe. 

 Foot rot, explained, s. 7266. p. 1066. 

 Forage plants. See Herbage plants. 

 Fore-rents, rents paid previously to the first crop 



being reaped, p. 767. 

 Fors and scudda, explained, s. 7137. p. 1052. 

 Forsing, explained, s. 7137. p. 1052. 

 Founder of the feet of horses, explained, s. 6517. p. 987. 

 Free martin, explained, s. 6824. p. 1021. 

 Freehold, explained, s. 3393. p. 551. 

 Fret, colic, gripes, or gullion. 

 Friable soils, crumbling soils, p. 802. 

 Frondose branched trees, full of branches, which 



are fiat and spread horizontally, like the fronds 



of ferns, as in the spruce fir, s. 3987. p. 648. 

 Frontal worms, explained, s. 7270. p. 1066. 

 Frustum, a piece cut off from a regular figure, 



s. 3732. p. 605. 

 Furnished, explained, s. 6247. p. 955. 

 Fusiform root, shaped like a spindle, as the carrot, 



parsnep, &c. p. 865. 



G. 



Gaites, single sheaves tied in a particular manner, 



p. 516. 

 Gaiting, explained, s. 3176. p. 516. 

 Gangs, courses or slips in thatching, p. 518. 

 Gastric juice, the juice of the stomach of any 



animal, p. 974. 

 Gaw furrows, explained, s. 4956. p. 803. 

 Gelding ant-hills, explained, s. 5778. p. 902. 

 Gean, wild cherry, s. 3994. p. 650. 

 Gibbous, protuberant, bearing excrescences, s.6775. 



p. 1014. 

 Gid, explained, p. 1066. 

 Glair, the mucous evacuation in the scouring of 



horses, s. 6950. 

 Glanders, explained, p. 985. _ . 



Glenoid, the hollow or socket in one bone at a joint 



which receives the knob, boss, or head of the ap- 

 proximate bone, p. 965. 

 Glumes, the husks or chaff of corn. Oat flights 



are the glumes of the oat, p. 888. 

 Gluten, a tenacious, ductile, and elastic substance, 



forming a constituent part in wheat flour and 



other vegetable bodies, p. 771- 

 Go-downs, explained, s. 6736 p. 1010. 

 Goggles, explained, s. 7267. p. 1066. 

 Grass-cocks, hay-cocks, p. 904. 

 Grasses, all the natural order of Graminea>, of Lin. 



na;us and Jussieu. Cereal grasses, those grown 



for bread corn. Pasture grasses, those grown 



chiefly for pasturage. Fceneous or fceniferous 



grasses, those grown chiefly for hay. 

 Grassing flax, bleaching it on the ground, p. 915 

 Grease, a disease in horses, explained, s. 00*4. told. 



Great rot, explained, s. 7261. p. 1065. 



Green aces, land capable of tillage, p. 120o. 



Grouting, filling up, s. ,'3711. p. 600. 



Gotta Serena, explained, s. 0441. p. 980. 



Gutter, a furrow-channel or drain, s. 44*8. p. 726. 



Gyvsum, a genus of calcareous earths, consisting 



of carbonate of lime, and united with sulphuric 



acid The principal specie-, is the Gypsum A\A. is. 



trum, plaster of Paris, or alabaster. See C. 



Tech. Diet. 



