GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 



*#* In this Index both Pages and Paragraphs are referred to ; the letter p. is prefixed to the former 



to the latter the letter s. * 



Abrading earth, earth crumbling down from 



the eflfects of frost, page 483. 

 Absorbent soft, soil so constituted a^ to absorb 

 moisture from the atmosphere, 772. 



Absorbent system, explained in s. 6352. p. 968. 



Acclimatising vegetables or animals, inuring them 

 to a climate in which they ire not indigenous. 

 The term naturalising is sometimes substituted, 

 but erroneously. See Naturalising. 



Acescent, entering a state of acid fermentation, s. 

 6978. p. 1036. 



Aeration, exposing the soil to the air, p. 507. 



Aereometric beads, hollow beads of glass contain- 

 ing air, for ascertaining the specific gravity of 

 milk, s. 7008. p. 1039. 



.4fter-grass, the second crop of grass from lands 

 which have been previously mowed the same 

 year, p. 905. 



After?nath, the second mowing of perennial mea- 

 dow lands in the same season, p. 515. 



Agriculture is used in its most extensive sense in 

 the third line of the title-page, and generally in 

 the historical part of the work (Part I.), as in- 

 cluding territorial economy and husbandry. In 

 ?tiost parts of this work, for example, in the 

 words of the title-page, " animal and vegetable 

 productions of agriculture," as synonymous with 

 husbandry. In several places as synonymous with 

 aration ; that is, the culture of arable lands, as 

 opposed to pasturage, or what may be called agri- 

 culture proper. In every case the reader will be 

 able to gather, from the scope of the sentence or 

 paragraph containing this term, in which of these 

 three senses it is meant to be understood. 



Aigrettes, tufts of feathers, p. 1088. 



Ails, small islands, or islets, in streams. 



Alburnous parts, soft woody parts, p. 661. 



Alburnum, the soft sappy wood just under the in- 

 ner bark, p. 646. See hindley's Outlines of the 

 Principles of Botany, p. 17. 



Alien waters, a brook or stream passing from one 

 area through another, which has been embanked 

 from a river or the sea, p. 715. 



Allodially, independently of any superior, p. 552. 



Alluvial soil, soil deposited by streams, p. 747. 



Aloetic purge, a purge composed of the socotorine 

 aloes, p. 1035. 



Alterative, alterative medicines are those which 

 induce a change in the blood and juices for the 

 better, without any manifest operation or evacu- 

 ation, p. 977. 



Alveolary sockets, sockets like the cells in a honey- 

 comb, p. 972. 



Ambling, explained, s. 6666. p. 1002. 



Amerciament, a pecuniary punishment arbitrarily 

 imposed, p. 769. 



Ammcniacal gases, s. 6701. 



Amorphous stones, without regular shape, s. 3005. 

 p. 483. 



Anbury, an excrescence in some plants of the natu- 

 ral order Cruciferas, and chiefly in the turnip, 

 produced by the puncture and depositing of the 

 eggs of an insect, s. 5437. p. 861. 



Aniyne, a chemical product obtained from plants, 

 s. 1468. 



Anomalous, irregular, p. 682. 



Aorta, the great artery of the heart, p. 967. 



A6rta asce'ndens, the ascending great artery of the 

 heart, p. 967. 



Aorta desc^ndens, the descending great artery of the 

 heart, p. 967. 



Appui, a reciprocal action between the mouth of 

 the horse and the hand of the rider ; the bit and 

 rein forming the line of communication. Thus a 



horse with a sensitive mouth has a good appui, and 

 the same may be said of the rider if his hand be 

 good, s. 6tiiJ3. p. 1002. 



Aqueous humour, the watery humour of the eve; 

 the first or outermost, and thinnest of its three 

 humours, p. 970. 

 Aration, ploughing or tillage, s. 3562. p. 573. 

 Arenarious grasses, grasses suitable for sandy soils. 



p. 749. 

 Averruncator, a pruning instrument, consisting of 

 two blades fixed on the end of a rod, acting like 



scissors, by means of a line fixed to one of them, 



and pulled by the operator, s. 3155. p. 512. 

 Awns, the beards or long bristles which project 



from the chaffs ; they are plentiful on spring 



wheat, and on barley, p. 812. 

 Axillaries, explained, s. 6344. p. 967. 

 Azote, the radical principle of the atmospheric air, 



p. 814. 



B. 

 Backing ahorse, explained, s. 66.57. p. 1000. 

 Back-raking, an operation in farriery, by which 



hardened faeces are withdrawn from the rectum, 



s. 6543. p. 990. 

 Back-rents, rents paid subsequently to reaping, p. 



768. 

 Bagging, explained, s. 3173. p. 575. 

 Bails, a substitute for fixed standings or stall 



divisions, s. 6799. p. 1006. 

 Band-win ridges, ridges formed of such a width as 



to be reaped by what in Scotland is called a band 



of shearers or reapers, s. 3250. p. 526. 

 Barbs, explained, s. 6382. p. 972. 

 Bastard-cocks, small preparatory liaycocks, s. 5797. 



p. 904. 

 Battering, as applied to fences, leaning inward, s, 



4594. p. 754. 

 Baulk, in Scotland, ground left unturned between 



the furrow-slices in ploughing, p. 711.; in England 



the same thing, and also strips of ground usually 



in grass between ploughed ridges, as in common 



field lands. 

 Bavins, brush-faggots, s. 3626. p. 584. 

 Bear, an iron instrument used in the Isle of Ely to 



eradicate weeds in water-courses, s. 5686. p. 892, 

 Bents, the dead stems of grass in pasture grounds 



which have borne seeds. 

 Bigg, a variety of winter barley, s. 5085. p. 823. 

 Billet, a term variously employed. A wooden 



billet is often used in docking a horse, and often 



forms a separation between carriage horses, 



s. 6733 p. 100.9. 

 Binding and stooking, binding sheaves of corn, and 



placing them in shocks or stooks, s. 3175. p. 515. 

 Binot, a variety of double mould-boarded plough, 



s. 2620. p. 396. 

 Blanch holding, a mode of legal tenure in Scotland, 



s. 340 1. p. 552. 

 Blast, a disease in the stomach of sheep and oxen 



from wind ; also a term for the mildew in wheat, 



p. 1065. 

 Blinding, filling up interstices between stones on 



roads with gravel, &c. s. 3654. p. 589. 

 Blood spavin in horse.s, 961. 

 Blowing lands, lands whose surface-soil is so light as 



to be liable, when dry, to be blown away by the 



wind, p. 870. 

 Blowing safid, p. 749. See Blowing lands. 

 Boles of trees, the trunks of trees, p. 656. 

 Boll, a measure for corn in Scotland ; in wheat and 



beans, equivalent to four Winchester bushels ; in 



oats, barley, and potatoes, to six bushels, p. 842. 

 Bone spavin, explained, s. 6507. p. 986. 

 Boulder stones, large round stones, p. 481. 



