(a) Lack, insufficiency, absence; short weight [quot.: a1400]; at defaut, incomplete (as to antlers), lacking; for defaut, for lack of something; in your defaut, in your absence, because of your……
(a) Law The blending together of property belonging to different persons for equal division; (b) cook. a kind of stew; esp. one made with goose, herbs, spices, wine, and other ingredients; gos (ges)……
(a) A slash, cut; (b) a style, fashion, manner in which cloth is cut; (c) physical appearance, shape; (d) coll. slips of wood, cuttings; also [1st quot.], ?a thicket; ?undergrowth [this word and the……