"Si præpositus hundredi equos aut boves aut oves aut porcos vel cujuscumque generis averia vagancia restare fecerit," &c. The word may naturally enough have been applied to deer reduced to the state of tame and domesticated cattle.

You see," dropping her voice for a moment, "I darsn't dar to speak out plain and 'bove-board

You will see a lot o' Washington, an' Washington again; An' good ol' Fathah Lincoln, tow'rin' 'bove de rest o' men;

I say nothing of Turks, galley-slaves, which are bought and sold like juments, or those African Negroes, or poor Indian drudges, qui indies hinc inde deferendis oneribus occumbunt, nam quod apud nos boves et asini vehunt, trahunt, &c. Id omne misellis Indis, they are ugly to behold, and though erst spruce, now rusty and squalid, because poor, immundas fortunas aquum est squalorem sequi, it is ordinarily so.