·- A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.
·vi To use evasion. II. Blanch ·adj To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin. III. Blanch ·noun...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun The burden or chorus of a song. II. Holding ·noun That which holds, binds, or influences. II...
Shown in Agas' (G) map, 1578. It is variously described as a manor, a messuage, a district, etc., a...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
·- ·see Blanch holding. ...
The act of pulling back the hind part of any rope. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The act of checking the progress of a boat by holding the oar-blades in the water, and bearing the f...
East out of Mark Lane, near Fenchurch Street. In Aldgate Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 82). Other ...
See Blanch Appleton Court. ...
Doing nothing. (See eyelids.) ...