Agistment: alternatives and connections

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the m…

Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called g…

One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Je…

A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or su…

A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butl…

To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of co…

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were an…

To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from…

Actually; in fact; in reality; as, a king de facto, -- distinguished from a king de jure, or by right.

A collection of cattle driven, or cattle collected for driving; a number of animals, as oxen, sheep, or swine, driven in a body.

One who drives cattle or sheep to market; one who makes it his business to purchase cattle, and drive them to market.

An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a…

One or a breed of short-horned cattle, originating in the county of Durham, England. The Durham cattle are noted for their beef-produc…

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as,…

To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.

To wander or rove in search of food; to collect food, esp. forage, for horses and cattle by feeding on or stripping the country; to ra…

One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feed…

Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals.