The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten (No Series) by Kacirk Jeffrey
Author:Kacirk, Jeffrey [Kacirk, Jeffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 2001-02-28T00:00:00+00:00
man of straw
A person without capital. It used to be customary for a number of worthless fellows to loiter about our law-courts to become false witness or surety for anyone who would buy their services. Their badge was a straw in their shoes. [Brewer] To write or speak of a person in trade that he is a man of straw is to impute insolvency. [Stroud] SEE post- knight
maritagium
Strictly taken, the right of the Lord of the Fee to marry the daughters of his vassels after their death. Others tell us it was that profit which might accrue to the lord by the marriage of one under age who held his lands by knight’s service. [Blount] SEE culliage, maiden-rent
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