A Dictionary of Sports: Or, Companion to the Field, the Forest, and the Riverside. Containing Explanations of Every Term Applicable to Racing, Shooting, Hunting, Fishing, Hawking, Archery, Etc. ... With Essays Upon All National Amusements |
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... cause may be generally attributed to over - work or external violence . ABORTIVE CORN . A disease in corn , which shews itself when the stalk is about eighteen inches high , and may be known by a deformity of the ear , the leaves , the ...
... cause may be generally attributed to over - work or external violence . ABORTIVE CORN . A disease in corn , which shews itself when the stalk is about eighteen inches high , and may be known by a deformity of the ear , the leaves , the ...
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... cause the cattle were suffered " agi- ser , " that is , to be levant and couch- ant , in the King's Forest . AGISTOR . " An officer that takes in cattle of strangers to feed in a forest , and receives for the king's use such tack ...
... cause the cattle were suffered " agi- ser , " that is , to be levant and couch- ant , in the King's Forest . AGISTOR . " An officer that takes in cattle of strangers to feed in a forest , and receives for the king's use such tack ...
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... cause most of our first - rate town gunsmiths have a very proper dread in making or exposing them for sale . The regular poacher is seldom with- out his friend the air gun , and to him it is well adapted ; inasmuch , as it is made up in ...
... cause most of our first - rate town gunsmiths have a very proper dread in making or exposing them for sale . The regular poacher is seldom with- out his friend the air gun , and to him it is well adapted ; inasmuch , as it is made up in ...
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... causes are ossifi- cation of the ligaments , strumous disorders , abscesses in the joints producing cancers , inflammation in the membrane lining the joints.- When the bones are united , the cure is impossible : even in the false the ...
... causes are ossifi- cation of the ligaments , strumous disorders , abscesses in the joints producing cancers , inflammation in the membrane lining the joints.- When the bones are united , the cure is impossible : even in the false the ...
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... cause the helthe of your body , and specyally of your soul , " as the first treatise concludes . Wynkin de Worde gave the world , in 1496 , a small folio republication of the celebrated Book of St. Albans . It contained for the first ...
... cause the helthe of your body , and specyally of your soul , " as the first treatise concludes . Wynkin de Worde gave the world , in 1496 , a small folio republication of the celebrated Book of St. Albans . It contained for the first ...
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