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GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 



In contradistinction to work done and paid for by 

 the measure of time, p. 976. 

 PigeoH-cat, explained, s. 7540. p. 109o. 

 Pi^rgery, the compartment in a farm- yard, with 



sties and other accompaniments allotted to pigs. 

 Pile, the shag or hair on the skins of animals. Each 



hair may be called a pile, s. 7140. p. 1052. 

 Pillow-slip, i)illow.case, p. 1049. 

 Pining, explained, s. 7272. p. 1066. ; 



Pinning, explained, s. 7260. p. 1065. 

 Pip, explained, s. 7525. p. 109,5. 

 Pipe drain, explained, s. 4296. p. 710. 

 Pith and Pithing, by butchers, explained, s. 6308. 



p. 96i. 

 PI me table, a square board with lines drawn on its 

 upper side, used in taking angles and in measuring 

 land, s. 2998. p. 481. 

 Plashing an old hedge, interweaving the stems in 



hedges, s. 3025. p. 490. 

 Plumassier, one who prepares feathers for orna- 

 mental purposes, p. 1088. 

 Pluviometer, rain gauge, s. 4742. p. 773. 

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

 Podders, persons employed to collect the green pods 



of peas off the plants, p. 837. 

 Polders, salt marshes in Holland and Flanders, p.774. 

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

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

 s. 6i42 p. 980. 

 Polled, hornless, devoid of horns, s. 6786. p. 1016. 

 Po?nmage, the pulpy mass to which apples are] re- 

 duced by grinding in the cider counties, prepar- 

 atory to pressing out the juice, p. 672. 

 Pommel, the prominence in the front or fore part of 



a saddle, p. 1003. 

 Potato pies, explained, s. 5314. p. 851. 

 Pouters, a variety of pigeon remarkable for its habit 



of pouting, p. 1095. 

 Preventive prunin->, explained, s. 3990. p. 619. 

 Probang, a flexible piece of whalebone with a sponge 

 fixed to the end, used occasionally in probing the 

 throat, s. 6955. p. 1033. 

 Puddling, explained, p. 620. 

 Pulls, hills or elevated parts of a road, requiring 



extra pulling in draught animals, s. 3237. p. 525. 

 Pulmonary artery, explained, s. 6345. p. 967. 

 Pultaceous, of the consistence of a poultice, p. 1005. 

 Pumiced foot, explained, s. 6521. p. 987. 

 Piincta lachrymdlia, explained, s. 6370. p. 970. 

 Piipa, the chrysalis state of insects, p. 1112. 

 Purchase of the bridle, the command or control of 



it, s. 6.>76. p. 1003. 

 Pursiveness, pursiness, shortness of breath, s. 6693. 



p. 1005. 

 Pyrites, firestone, s. 3228. p. 523. 

 Pyroligncous acid, acid produced by distillation of 

 the spray of trees, p. 493. 



Quadrant, a mathematical instrument ; the fourth 

 part of a circle, s. 3350. 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. 3195. 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 bends, sharp turns, p. 573. 



Quicken tree. See Roan tree. 



Quickset hedge, a hedge formed of sets or plants that 

 are quick ; that is, alive. 



Quincunx, trees planted in rows, at the same dis- 

 tance between the rows that the trees are in the 

 rows, and the trees of one row opposite the vacan- 

 cies in the other, s. 3928. p. 638. 



Quit-rent, a small rent or acknowledgement payable 

 by the tenants of most manors, s. 1117. p. 179. 



Quittor, explained, p. 988. 



Rabbet, a moulding, s. 4334. p. 71.^. 



Rabinos, explained, s. 7140. p. 1052. 



Rafter, a 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 land that is left unploughed, p. 1166. ; as ap- 

 plied to limber, sawing up planks of trees into 

 pieces of greater depth than width for rafters to 

 roof buildings. 1 



Rake hot, to steam or reck hot, s. 672a p. 1008. 

 Ramose-headed trees, trees whose heads abound in 



branches, p. 649. 

 Ramose-rooted trees, trees whose roots are much 



branched, p. 634. 

 Rath ripe, the property of being early ripe, s. 5082. 



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

 of the tail to fall off", and not be again produced, 

 s. 6710. p. 1007. 

 Ray, 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 siiles are equal, and all its angles 

 right angles, p. 443. 

 Red roan, explained, s. 5106. p. 82.5. 

 Redwater, explained, s. 5106. p. 1064. 

 Rite mucbsum, p. 963. A mucous membrane depo- 

 sited in a net-like form, between the epidermis 

 and the cutis : it covers the sensible cutaneous 

 papillie, connects the epidermis with the cutis, 

 and gives the colour to the body. Crabb. 

 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 are parallel 

 and equal, but all its sides are not equal, neither 

 are its angles right angles, p. 414. 

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

 Ricking, explained, s. 3176. p. 516. 

 Riddle, a large coarse sieve, s. 3655. p. 589. 

 Ridging, laying the soil up in ridges, p. 508. 

 Rifting by gunpowder, riving, splitting, or dividing, 



s. 4065. p. 661. 

 Right angles, where a room is exactly square, each 

 of the corners of it is called a right angle : in 

 scientific language it is thus defined, as the fourth 

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

 standing on another straight line, makes the ad- 

 jacent angles or corners equal to one another, 

 each of the angles or corners is called a right 

 angle. 

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



horse, p. 960. 

 Rippling of flax or hemp, the operation of sepa- 

 rating the boles or seed pods, by striking them 

 against a board, or piece of iron, p. 915. 

 Ristle-plough, explained, p. 1197. 

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

 Roan tree, the mountain ash. 

 Roguish plants, spurious varieties, s. 5220. p. 838. 

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

 Root crops, esculent plants cultivated for their 

 tubers, bulijs, 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 witli 

 common roots, which serve to nourish these 

 tubers, bulbs, &c., in common with other parts of 

 the plant. 

 Rot, explained, s. 7245. p. 1064. 

 Rouen, the aftermath, the lattermath, or second 

 crop of hav cut oft" the same ground in one year, 

 s. 3169. p. 515. 

 Rough pile in cattle, coarse hair or wool, p. 784. 

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

 Rowels, explained, s. 6538. 

 Rubbers, a disease in sheep, explained, s, 7265. p. 



1066. 

 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. 4140. p. 675. 

 Runts, a variety of pigeon, p. 1()95. 

 Rurql economy, rural affairs, geoponics, agro- 

 nomics, terms considered as synonymous with 

 husbandry. 

 Rust, a disease to which the cereal and other 

 grasses are subject, and which occasions their 

 herbage to be of a rusty colour, s. 574!. p. 899. 

 Rut, to cut a line on the soil with a spade, p. 482. ; 

 also the copulation of deer in the rutting season ; 

 also the track of .n cart-wheel. 

 Rutting. Sec Rut. 



