Chiltern Hundreds :: Chiltern Hundreds () A tract of crown land in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, to which is attached the nominal office of steward. As members of Parliament cannot resign, when they wish to go out they accept this stewardship, which legally vacates their seats..

Dredge :: Dredge (n.) Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as: (a) A dragnet for taking up oysters, etc., from their beds. (b) A dredging machine. (c) An iron frame, with a fine net attached, used in collecting animals living at the bottom of the sea..

Dredge :: Dredge (n.) Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.

Dredge :: Dredge (v. t.) To catch or gather with a dredge; to deepen with a dredging machine.

Dredge :: Dredge (n.) A mixture of oats and barley.

Dredge :: Dredge (v. t.) To sift or sprinkle flour, etc., on, as on roasting meat..

Dredged :: Dredged (imp. & p. p.) of Dredg.

Dredger :: Dredger (n.) One who fishes with a dredge.

Dredger :: Dredger (n.) A dredging machine.

Dredger :: Dredger (n.) A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box..

Dredging :: Dredging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dredg.

Enfouldred :: Enfouldred (a.) Mixed with, or emitting, lightning..

Hundred :: Hundred (n.) The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C..

Hundred :: Hundred (n.) A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen..

Hundred :: Hundred (a.) Ten times ten; five score; as, a hundred dollars..

Hundreder :: Hundreder (n.) An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred.

Hundreder :: Hundreder (n.) A person competent to serve on a jury, in an action for land in the hundred to which he belongs..

Hundreder :: Hundreder (n.) One who has the jurisdiction of a hundred; and sometimes, a bailiff of a hundred..

Hundredfold :: Hundredfold (n.) A hundred times as much or as many.

Hundredth :: Hundredth (a.) Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units.

Hundredth :: Hundredth (a.) Forming one of a hundred equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a tenth.

Hundredth :: Hundredth (n.) One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or may be, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred..

Hundredweight :: Hundredweight (n.) A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton..

Kindred :: Kindred (n.) Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.

Kindred :: Kindred (n.) Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other..

Kindred :: Kindred (a.) Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions..

Ribaudred :: Ribaudred (a.) Alt. of Ribaudrou.

Unkindred :: Unkindred (a.) Not kindred; not of the same kin.

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