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GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 



in contradistinction to work done and paid for by 

 the measure of time, p. 97& 

 ucat, explained, a. 7540, p 

 <y, the compartment in a farm-yard, with 



sties and other accompaniments allotted I 

 Pile, the shag or hair on the skina of animal 



hair may be called a pile, v. Tin. p. 1052. 

 Pt'Uotu-flip, pillow-case, p. 1049 

 Pining, explained, a. 7278. i>. 1066. 

 Pinning, explained, a 7260. p. 10 

 Pip, explained, i 7525. p. II 

 Pipe drain, explained, s. 1296. p. 710. 

 Pith and Pithing, by butchers, explained, s. 0308. 



I> 961 



table, a square board with linos drawn on its 



upperside, used in taking angles and in measuring 



land, a 2998. p 181. 

 Plathing&n old hed ■, interweaving the Si 



hedges, a 3025. | 

 Plumassier, one who prepares feathers for orna- 

 mental purposes, p. loss. 

 Pluviometer, rain gauge, s. 474'2. p. 77 :. 

 Pneumonia, an inflammation of the lungs, p. 981. 

 Podders, persons employed to collect the green pods 



of peas oil' the plants, p. 837. 

 Polders, salt marshes in Holland ami Flanders, n.774. 

 w7, or poll evil, a disease of the poll or head, 



usually at its hind part, or in the nape of the neck. 



s. 6442 p. 980. 

 Polled, hornless, devoid of horns, s. 6786. p. 101G. 

 Pommage, the pulpy mass to which apples are re- 



duced by grinding in the cider counties, prepar- 

 atory to pre. ,iii.,' out the juice, p. 672. 

 Pommel, the prominence in the front or fore part of 



a saddle, p. 1003. 

 Potato pies, explained, s. 5344. p. 851. 

 Pouters, a variety of pigeon remarkable for its habil 



of pouting, p. 1095. 

 Preventive pruning, explained, s. 3990. p. 649. 

 Probang, a flexible piece of whalebone with a sponge 



fixed to the end, used occasionally in probiii" the 



throat, s. 6953. p. 1033. 

 Puddling, explained, p. 620. 

 Pulls, hills or elevated parts of a road, requiring 



Puncta lachrymilia, explained, s. 6370. p. 070. 

 I'iipa, the chrysalis state of insects, p. 1 1 12. 

 Purchase of the bridle, the command or control of 



it, s. 6676. p. 1003. 

 Pursiveness, pursiness, shortness of breath, s GG03 



p. 1005. 

 Pyrites, flrestbne, s. 3228. p. 523. 

 Pyroligneous acid, acid produced bv distillation of 



the spray of trees, p. 493. 



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Quadrant, a mathematical instrument ; the fourth 

 part of a circle, s. 3370. p. 544. 



Quant, a small piece of board at the bottom of a 

 jumping pole to prevent the pole sinking into the 

 mud by the weight of the jumper's body 



Quarter-cleft rod, a measuring staff having four 

 sides, s. 1195. p. 518. 



Quartering, the division of planks of wood length- 

 wise into small four-sided pieces. 



Quarters of the horse's hoof, explained, s. 6420 p 976 



Quick, a live fence or hedge formed of some grow' 

 ing plant, usually hawthorn. 



Quick /irnds, sharp turns, p, 570 



Quicken tree. Sec Roan tree. 



Quickset hedge, a hedge formed of sets or plants that 



arc quick ; that is, alive. 

 Quincunx, trees planted in rows, at the same dis 



tance between the rows that the trees arc in the 



rows, and the trees of one row opposite the nnn 



cies in the other, s. 3928. p. il ;s. 

 Quit-rent, a small rent or acknowledgement payable 



by the tenants of rno^t manors, s. 1117 p 179 

 QuittOT, explained, p. 9JS8. 



R. 



Rabbet, a moulding, s. 4334. p. 715. 

 Raoinos, explained, s. 7140. p. II 



. 1 piece of four-sided timber used in roofs 

 Raftering land, ploughing half of the land and 

 turning the grass side of the ploughed furrow on 

 the lau.i thai is left unploughed, p. 1166 ■ as ap 

 plied to limber, sawing up planks of trees into 

 pieces ol greater depth than width for rafters to 

 roof buildings. 



Rake hot, to .-.team or reck hot, ». 6723. p 1008 



Ramose-headed trees, im- whose heads abound In 



branches, p. op'. 

 Ramose-rooted trees, trees whose roots are much 



branched, p. 6 I 

 Rath ripe, the property of being early rip . 



Rat's tail, a disease in horses, which causes the hair 

 ol the tail to fall off, and not be again produced, 



luu/, a disease in sheep, explained, s. 7625 p 1066 



Rectangular fields, fields whose angles are right 



angles, p. 680. 

 Rectangular parallelogram, a figure of four sides, 



whose opposite sides are equal, and all its angles 



right angles, p. ! 1 ;. 



Red man, explained, s. 5106. p. S25. 



Redwater, explained, s. 5106. p. I 



Rite muedsum, p. 968, a mucous membrane depo- 

 sited in a net-like form, between the epidermis 

 and the cutis: it covers the sensible cutaneous 

 papilla;, connects the epidermis with the cutis 

 and gives the colour to the body.— Crahb. 



Retina, the true organ of vision, formed by a net- 

 like expansion of the pulp of the optic nerve 

 p. 970. ' 



Rhomboid, a figure whose opposite sides arc parallel 

 and equal, but all its sides are nut equal, neither 

 are its angles right angles, p. 414. 



Ribbing, explained, s. 3255. p. 527. 



Hiding, explained, s. 3176. p. 516. 



Riddle, a large coarse sieve, s. 3655. p. 5S0 



Induing, laying the soil up in ridges, p 51 6 



Ryting by gunpowder, riving, splitting or dh iding, 

 s. 4065. p. 661. 



Right angles, where a room is exactlv square, each 

 ol the corners of it is called a right angle- in 

 scientific language it is thus defined, as the fourth 

 of a circle; or thus, when one straight line, 

 standing on another straight line, makes the ad- 

 jacent angles or coiners equal to one another 

 each ot the angles or comers is called a ri-hl 

 angle. 



Ring-bone in horses, a disease in the feet of the 

 horse, p. Pill). 



Rippling of flax or hemp, the operation of sepa- 

 rating the boles or seed pods, bv striking them 

 against a board, or piece of iron, p 015 



Ristle-plough, explained, p. 1197. 



River-meadows, explained, s. 5769. p. 901 



Roan tree, the mountain ash. 



Roguish plants, spurious varieties, s. 5220 p 



Rooflet, explained, s. 3195. p. 519. 



Root crops, esculent plants cultivated for their 

 tubers, bulbs, or other enlarged parts produced 

 under or immediately on the ground, and chiefly 

 connected with the root, as the potato, turnip 

 carrot, &c. ' 



Roots the fibres and other ramifications of a plant 

 under ground, and by which it imbibes nourish- 

 ment Tubers, bulbs, and other fleshy protuber- 

 ances under ground, are employed by nature for 

 the purposes of propagation or continuation, and 

 therefore ought never to be confounded with 

 common roots, which serve to nourish these 

 tiil.crs, bulbs, Sec., m common with other parts of 

 the plant. ' 



Rot, explained, s. 7245. p. 1064 



Rouen, the aftermath, the lattermath, or second 

 crop ot hay cut oil" the same ground in one'vear 

 s. olo9. p. olo. ■ ' 



Rough pile in cattle, coarse hair or wool n 784 



Roup, explained, s. 7526. p. 1095. 

 Rowels, explained, s. 653S. 



/: '\<!''<{ S ' a dise8se '" shce P> explained, s. 7265. p. 



Rubble stones, loose stones, brick-bats, and the like 



which are put together to conduct water ; so called 



because they are rubbed together 

 Rumbling drains, drains formed of a stratum of 



rubble stones, p 581, 

 Runner, explained, s. H-K). p. 675. 

 Runts, a variety of pigeon, p. 1005 

 Rural economy, rural affairs, gooponics, aero. 



hnsbandr"' 1 ' 8 C0D8,dered M synonymous with 

 Rust, a disease to which the cereal and other 



grasses are subject, and which occasions their 



herbage to be ot a rusty colour, s 574] „ 89 q 

 Rut, to cut a line on the "soil with a spade! p~482 • 



also the copulation of deer in the ruttine season • 



also the track of a cart-wheel 8 ' 



Rutting See Rut. 



