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Clergy

acres, except with the sanction of the bishop, and cannot carryon any trade. It is a misdemeanour to obstruct or assault them while in the exercise of their duties (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, s. 36).

Resist

To stand against to withstand to obstruct

Snuffle

To speak through the nose to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed so as to make a broken sound

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Smothered mate

Checkmate given when movement of the king is completely obstructed by his own men This can only occur when an opponent moves a knight into a position to

VerbarRhonchus

An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to racircle in its widest sense See Racircle

Purling

The motion of a small stream running among obstructions also the murmur it makes in so doing

Highways

off any gun or pistl or letting off any firework within 50 feet, or in any way willfully obstructing the free passage of a highway, or committing any of the various other offences therein mentioned; and the

Probang

A slender elastic rod as of whalebone with a sponge on the end for removing obstructions from the esophagus etc

Engine

Act, 1861, ss. 11, 14, 15; and as to placing wood, etc., on any railway, with intent to obstruct or overthrow any engine, see s. 35. The use of locomotive engines on railways is authorized by the

Sterbreche, Strebrich

Sterbreche, Strebrich, the breaking, obstructing, or straitening of a way, Termes de la Ley.

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