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n., [ OF. alnage, aulnage, F. aunage, fr. OF. alne ell, of Ger. origin: cf. OHG. elina, Goth. aleina, cubit. See Ell. ] (O. Eng. Law) Measurement (of cloth) by the ell; also, a duty for such measurement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Alnage. ] A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. amesnagier. See Manage. ] To manage. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Appanage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. apanage, fr. OF. apaner to nourish, support, fr. LL. apanare to furnish with bread, to provision; L. ad + pains bread. ] 1. The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dependency; a dependent territory. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which belongs to one by custom or right; a natural adjunct or accompaniment. “Wealth . . . the appanage of wit.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Appanage. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. See Alnage and Alnager. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Phys. Geog.) A system of natural drainage developed by the constituent streams through headwater erosion. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. avenage, fr. L. avena oats. ] (Old Law) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent. Jacob. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. badiner to joke, OF. to trifle, be silly, fr. badin silly. ] Playful raillery; banter. “He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage.” Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Barbicanage. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ LL. barbicanagium. See Barbican. ] Money paid for the support of a barbican. [ Obs. ] Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. barnage, baronage, OF. barnage, F. baronnage; cf. LL. baronagium. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The whole body of barons or peers. [ 1913 Webster ]

The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The dignity or rank of a baron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The land which gives title to a baron. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. brenage; cf. LL. brennagium, brenagium. See Bran. ] (Old Eng. Law) A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. carénage. ] (Naut.) (a) Expense of careening ships. (b) A place for careening. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carnage, LL. carnaticum tribute of animals, flesh of animals, fr. L. caro, carnis, flesh. See Carnal. ] 1. Flesh of slain animals or men. [ 1913 Webster ]

A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The more fearful carnage of the Bloody Circuit. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Attendance of a chaperon on a lady in public; protection afforded by a chaperon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cheminage, fr. chemin way, road. ] (Old Law) A toll for passage through a forest. [ Obs. ] Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Coin, v. t., cf. Cuinage. ] 1. The act or process of converting metal into money. [ 1913 Webster ]

The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The cost or expense of coining money. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. “Unnecessary coinage . . . of words.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the very coinage of your brain. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. communage. ] The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. [ 1913 Webster ]

The claim of commonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In some countries, concubinage is marriage of an inferior kind, or performed with less solemnity than a true or formal marriage; or marriage with a woman of inferior condition, to whom the husband does not convey his rank or quality. Under Roman law, it was the living of a man and woman in sexual relations without marriage, but in conformity with local law. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A plea, in which it is alleged that the woman suing for dower was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endowed, but that she was his concubine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF., horn-blowing, tax on horned cattle, fr. F. corne a horn, L. cornu. ] (Law) An ancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Cozenage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cousinage. ] (Law) (a) Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity. Burrill. (b) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cousinage, OF., also, cosinage. Cf. Cosinage, Cozenage. ] Relationship; kinship. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cozen, and cf. Cousinage. ] The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Crane. ] 1. The liberty of using a crane, as for loading and unloading vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The money or price paid for the use of a crane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupted fr. coinage. ] The stamping of pigs of tin, by the proper officer, with the arms of the duchy of Cornwall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A draining; a gradual flowing off of any liquid; also, that which flows out of a drain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The mode in which the waters of a country pass off by its streams and rivers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Engin.) The system of drains and their operation, by which superfluous water is removed from towns, railway beds, mines, and other works. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Area or district drained; as, the drainage of the Po, the Thames, etc. Latham. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Surg.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drainage tube (Surg.), a tube introduced into a wound, etc., to draw off the discharges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of drowning. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Dun a mound. ] (Naut.) Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water, or stowed among casks and other cargo to prevent their motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. espionnage, fr. espionner to spy, fr. espion spy, OF. espie. See Espy. ] The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching. [ 1913 Webster ]

. In the fullest sense, the conversion of bullion (of any specified metal) into legal-tender coins for any person who chooses to bring it to the mint; in a modified sense, such coinage when done at a fixed charge proportionate to the cost of the operation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. gabionnage. ] (Mil.) The part of a fortification built of gabions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. gaignage pasturage, crop, F. gaignage pasturage. See Gain, v. t. ] (O. Eng. Law) (a) The horses, oxen, plows, wains or wagons and implements for carrying on tillage. (b) The profit made by tillage; also, the land itself. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Guardianship. [ Obs. & R. ] “ His tuition and guardenage.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Guardianship. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The number of guns carried by a ship of war. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Harbor dues; port dues. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (O. Eng. Law) The right or privilege of intercommoning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. libertinage. See Libertine. ] Libertinism; license. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Lineage. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. Pilotage; skill of a pilot or loadsman. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. lodemenage. Chaucer. ] Pilotage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. manège, It. maneggio, fr. maneggiare to manage, fr. L. manushand. Perhaps somewhat influenced by F. ménage housekeeping, OF. mesnage, akin to E. mansion. See Manual, and cf. Manege. ] The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Down, down I come; like glistering Phaethon
Wanting the manage of unruly jades. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word, in its limited sense of management of a horse, has been displaced by manege; in its more general meaning, by management. [ 1913 Webster ]