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Waveson
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WavesonThis name is given to such goods as after shipwreck appear upon the waves.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Shipwreck
The loss of a vessel at sea, either. by being swallowed up by the waves, by running against another vessel or thing at sea, or on the coast.
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Watchman
An officer in many cities and towns, whose duty it is to watch during the night and take care of the property of the inhabitants.
Water
1) That liquid substance of which the sea, the rivers, and creeks are composed. 2) A pool of water, or a stream or water course, is considered as part of the land, hence a pool of twenty acres, would pass by the grant of twenty acres of land, without mentioning the water. 3) Like land, water is distinguishable into different parts, as the sea, rivers, docks, canals, ponds and sewers, and to these may be added at water course
Water bailiff
English law. An officer appointed to search ships in ports.
Water ordeal
An ancient form of trial, now abolished, by which the accused, tied band and foot, were cast into cold water, and if they did not sink they were deemed innocent or they were compelled to plunge their limbs into hot water, and if they came out unhurt they were considered innocent. Vide Ordeal.
Water rights
The right to use water.
Waveson
Way bill
Contracts. A writing in which is set down the names of passengers, who are carried in a public conveyance, or the description of goods sent with a common carrier by land; when the goods are carried by water, the instrument is called a bill of lading.
Way going crop
In Pennsylvania, by the custom of the, country, a tenant for a term certain is entitled after the expiration of his Iease, to enter and take away the crop of grain which he had put into the ground the preceding fall. This is called the way going crop.
Ways and means
In legislative assemblies there is usually appointed a committee whose duties are to inquire into, and propose to the house, the ways and means to be adopted to raise funds for the use of the government. This body is called the committee of ways and means.
Wear
A great dam made across a river, accommodated for the taking of fish, or to convey a stream to a mill.
Wed
A covenant or agreement; whence a wedded husband.
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Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Shipwreck
The loss of a vessel at sea, either. by being swallowed up by the waves, by running against another vessel or thing at sea, or on the coast.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Watchman
An officer in many cities and towns, whose duty it is to watch during the night and take care of the property of the inhabitants.
Water
1) That liquid substance of which the sea, the rivers, and creeks are composed. 2) A pool of water, or a stream or water course, is considered as part of the land, hence a pool of twenty acres, would pass by the grant of twenty acres of land, without mentioning the water. 3) Like land, water is distinguishable into different parts, as the sea, rivers, docks, canals, ponds and sewers, and to these may be added at water course
Water bailiff
English law. An officer appointed to search ships in ports.
Water ordeal
An ancient form of trial, now abolished, by which the accused, tied band and foot, were cast into cold water, and if they did not sink they were deemed innocent or they were compelled to plunge their limbs into hot water, and if they came out unhurt they were considered innocent. Vide Ordeal.
Water rights
The right to use water.
Waveson
Way bill
Contracts. A writing in which is set down the names of passengers, who are carried in a public conveyance, or the description of goods sent with a common carrier by land; when the goods are carried by water, the instrument is called a bill of lading.
Way going crop
In Pennsylvania, by the custom of the, country, a tenant for a term certain is entitled after the expiration of his Iease, to enter and take away the crop of grain which he had put into the ground the preceding fall. This is called the way going crop.
Ways and means
In legislative assemblies there is usually appointed a committee whose duties are to inquire into, and propose to the house, the ways and means to be adopted to raise funds for the use of the government. This body is called the committee of ways and means.
Wear
A great dam made across a river, accommodated for the taking of fish, or to convey a stream to a mill.
Wed
A covenant or agreement; whence a wedded husband.
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