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Parish Boundaries

Parish Boundaries, see 1 Vict. c. 69, s. 2; 2 & 3Vict. c. 62, ss. 34-6; 3 & 4 Vict. c. 15, s. 28; 8 & 9 Vict. c. 118, ss. 39-45; and 12 & 13...

two blades each having several stiff oval wires at the tip The blades are swirled or rotated for beating eggs or whipping cream The electrical variety typically have two such blades which are arranged so that the

Medlefe, Medleta, Medletum

Medlefe, Medleta, Medletum [fr. meler, Fr., to meddle], a sudden scolding at and beating one another, Bract, 1, 3, c. xxxv.

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Excoriate

of to abrade to gall to break and remove the cuticle of in any manner as by rubbing beating or by the action of acrid substances

Rivet

head used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head a pin

Flail

An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand consisting of a wooden staff or handle at the end of which

Trespass

or the country in which we live; whether it relates to a man's person or his property. Therefore beating another is a trespass, for which an action of trespass in assault and will lie. Taking of and

Fugatores carrucarum

Fugatores carrucarum, waggoners who drive oxen without beating or goading, Fleta, 1. 2, c. lxxviii.

Denshiring of land

Denshiring of land (otherwise called burn-beating), a method of improving land by casting parings of earth, turf, and stubble into heaps, which when dried are burned into ashes for a compost, Jac. Law Dict.

Battery

Battery [batterie, Fr., fr battre, to beat], beating and wounding. This, in law, includes every touching or laying hold, however trifling, of another's person or clothes,