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Lodged
Lying down used of beasts of the chase as couchant is of beasts of prey
Carcass
A dead body whether of man or beast a corpse now commonly the dead body of a beast
Bestiary
A treatise on beasts esp one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages
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Bestial
Belonging to a beast or to the class of beasts
Chase
Chase [ fr. Chasse, Fr.], a privileged place for the preservation of deer and beasts of the forest, of a middle nature between a forest and a park. It is commonly less than a forest and...
Escapio quietus
Escapio quietus, delivered from that punishment which by the laws of the forest lay upon those whose beasts were found upon forbidden land, Jac. Law Dict.
Drifts of the forest
Drifts of the forest [agitatio animalium in foresta, Lat.], a view or examination of what cattle are in a forest, chase, etc., that it may be known whether it be surcharged or not; and whose the...
Dog-draw
Dog-draw, the manifest deprehension of an offender against venison in a forest, when he was found drawing after a deer by the scent of a hound led in his hand; or where a person had wounded...
Distress
Distress [fr. distringo, Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as...
Corsepresent
Corsepresent [fr. Corps, Fr., body], a mortuary, thus termed because when a mortuary became due on the death of a man, the best or second-best beast was, according to custom, offered or presented to the priest,...
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