Hain't seen it, myself, but a whole carload o' furnitooran' then some morewas shipped here from New York, an' Peggy McNutt, over t' Millville, says it must 'a' cost a for-tun'.

Take forty seville oranges, pare and cut them in slices, the best coloured seville you can get, put them all with the juice and seeds into half a hogshead of ale; when it is tunned up and working, put in the oranges, and at the same time a pound and a half of raisins of the sun stoned; when it has done working close up the bung, and it will be ready to drink in a month.

Leave the lads who tamely drink With Gideon by the water brink, But search the benches of the Plough, The Tun, the Sun, the Spotted Cow, For jolly rascal lads who pray, Pewter in hand, at close of day, "Teach me to live that I may fear The grave as little as my beer.

And if these were put in practice but a year or two in taverns, wine would soon fall from six-and-twenty pound a tun, and be beggar's moneya penny a quart, and take up his inn with waste beer in the alms-tub.

Then in all the cellars, far and wide, The oldest, as well as the newest, wine Begins to stir itself, and ferment, With a kind of revolt and discontent At being so long in darkness pent, And fain would burst from its sombre tun To bask on the hillside in the sun; As in the bosom of us poor friars, The tumult of half-subdued desires For the world that we have left behind Disturbs at times all peace of mind!

Hugh, Archdeacon of Wells, gave one tun of wine for leave to carry six hundred sums of corn whither he would [w]; Peter de Peraris gave twenty marks for leave to salt fishes, as Peter Chevalier used to do [x].

[f]: the Bishop of Winchester gave one tun of good wine for his not putting the king in mind to give a girdle to the Countess of Albemarle

The second part of "Absalom and Achitophel," which appeared in the autumn of 1682, contains the portrait of Og, cut in outlines so sharp as to remind us of an unrounded alto-rilievo: Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here's a tun of midnight work to come, Og, from a treason-tavern rolling home; Round as a globe, and liquored every chink, Goodly and great he sails behind his link.

" DEAR C.,We long to see you, and hear account of your peregrinations, of the Tun at Heidelburg, the Clock at Strasburg, the statue at Rotterdam, the dainty Rhenish and poignant Moselle wines, Westphalian hams, and Botargoes of Altona.

I take it to be acaan, past participle of actal, to erect, and tun, stone.

Town-meetings in ancient Greece and Rome Clans; the mark and the tun The Old-English township, the manor, and the parish The vestry-meeting Parish and vestry clerks; beadles, waywardens, haywards, common-drivers, churchwardens, etc.

Mao Tun, the second ruler of the Hsiung-nu, and his first successors undoubtedly intended ultimately to conquer China, exactly as many other northern peoples after them planned to do, and a few of them did.

Thus Kao Tsu was faced in Mao Tun not with a mere nomad chieftain but with the most dangerous of enemies, and Kao Tsu's policy had to be directed to preventing any interference of the Hsiung-nu in North Chinese affairs, and above all to preventing alliances between Hsiung-nu and Chinese.

Actually a Chinese opponent of Kao Tsu had already come to terms with Mao Tun, and in 200

But it did not come to that, and Mao Tun made no further attempt, although the opportunity came several times.

Mao Tun fell in with their view, and the Hsiung-nu maintained their state as long as they adhered to that principlefor some seven hundred years.

A treaty to this effect was concluded, and sealed by the marriage of a Chinese princess with Mao Tun.

My daughter Ni-tun'.

A tun about was every pillar there; A polish'd mirror shone not half so clear.

The vessel of his bliss to dregs is run, And Heaven will have him taste his other tun.

When the wife of mine host of the "Crown and Sceptre" left this world of cooking and drinking, the women who crowded to the good lady's funeral had to drown their sorrows in a tun of red port,[A] and it is evident that at the burial of men the grief of the mourners required an equal amount of quenching.

Butler, the keeper of a tavern, told me there was a tun of red port drank at his wife's burial, besides mull'd white wine.

I have heard that this Club, though it consisted but of fifteen Persons, weighed above three Tun.

This was the work of Beckington; note the prelate's arms on W. face, and rebus (a beacon and tun) on the E. side.

In a large vault are kept several enormous hogsheads, one of which is three hundred years old, but they are nothing in comparison with the tun, which itself fills a whole vault.