Word Meanings - THIRDINGS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.

• Deathwatch
  A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.
• Groundling
  A fish that keeps at the bottom of the water, as the loach.
• Growlingly
  In a growling manner.
• Third-borough
  An under constable.
• Groundly
  Solidly; deeply; thoroughly.
• Thirdings
  The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.
• Grained
  of Grain
• Groundnut
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogaea (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut.
• Growthead
  A lazy person; a blockhead.
• Thirdly
  In the third place.
• Deathbed
  The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.
• Graining.
  of Grain
• Groundsel
  An annual composite plant (Senecio vulgaris), one of the most common and widely distributed weeds on the globe.
• Growthful
  Having capacity of growth.
• Third-penny
  A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.

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