Sword Stick - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Sword stick, a Sword sticks is weapon different from a kirpan, AIR 1928 Lah 239....
cavalry sword
a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back...
Half sword
Half the length of a sword close fight...
Fire and sword, letters of
Fire and sword, letters of, anciently issued from the Privy Council of Scotland, addressed to the sheriff of the county, authorizing him to call for the assistance of the county to dispossess a tenant unlawfully retaining possession, Bell's Scots Law Dict....
Message stick
A stick carved with lines and dots used esp by Australian aborigines to convey information...
Poking stick
A small stick or rod of steel formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs...
Curtana
The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy also called the sword of Edward the Confessor...
Paracelsus
Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus originally Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim also called Theophrastus Paracelsus and Theophrastus von Hohenheim Born at Maria Einsiedeln in the Canton of Schwyz Switzerland Dec 17 or 10 Nov 1493 died at Salzburg Sept 23 or 24 1541 A celebrated German Swiss physician reformer of therapeutics iatrochemist and alchemist He attended school in a small lead mining district where his father William Bombast von Hohenheim was a physician and teacher of alchemy The family originally came from Wuumlrtemberg where the noble family of Bombastus was in possession of the ancestral castle of Hohenheim near Stuttgart until 1409 He entered the University of Basel at the age of sixteen where he adopted the name Paracelsus after Celsius a noted Roman physician But he left without a degree first going to Wurtzburg to study under Joannes Trithemius Abbot of Sponheim 1462 1516 a famous astrologer and alchemist who initiated him into the mysteries of alchemy He then spent many...
Reddendo singula singulis
Reddendo singula singulis, the method of con-struction applied in such a sentence as this, 'If any one shall draw or load any sword or gun'; the word 'draw' is applied to 'sword' only, and the word 'load' to 'gun' only, the former verb to the former noun, and the latter to the latter, because it is impossible to load a sword or draw a gun; and so of other applications of different sets of words to one another....
Caveating
Shifting the sword from one side of an adversarys sword to the other...
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