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An etching or a print from an etched plate...
Forted
Furnished with or guarded by forts strengthened or defended as by forts...
Peine forte et dure
Peine forte et dure (the strong and hard pain) [peine (or penance), probably a corrupted abbreviation of prisone, 3 Bl. Com. 325], an old punishment by which a prisoner, indicted for felony, if he refused to plead, was pressed by a heavy weight of iron till he died or answered, 2 Reeves, c. ix., 134; 4 Steph. Com.By the Criminal Law Act, 1827, s. 2, if a prisoner refuse to plead, the Court may order a plea of 'not guilty' to be entered....
Fortlett
Fortlett, a place or fort o some strength; a little fort, Old N. B. 45....
Cologne
A perfumed liquid composed of alcohol and certain aromatic oils used in the toilet called also cologne water and eau de cologne...
Eau de Cologne
Same as Cologne...
Eau de vie
French name for brandy Cf Aqua vitaelig under Aqua...
Ewage
Ewage [fr. eau, Fr., water], toll paid for water-passage, Jac. Law Dict. see AQUAGE....
Washing-horn
Washing-horn [fr. corner l'eau, Fr.], the sounding of a horn for washing before dinner. The custom was formerly observed in the Temple...
black hole
A dungeon or dark cell in a prison a military lock up or guardroom now commonly with allusion to the cell the Black Hole in a fort at Calcutta called the Black Hole of Calcutta into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20 1765 and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air...
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