among sportsmen, a method of taking pheasant-powts. It is thus: The sportsman finds out the haunts of these birds; and having fixed his nets there, he calls upon them together by a pheasant-call, imitating the voice of the dam; after this he makes a noise with his driver, which will make them run a little way forward in a cluster; and this he is to repeat till he has made sure of them, which an expert sportsman never fails to do, by driving them into his nets.

metallurgy, is said of silver, when, in the operation of refining, the lead being burnt away, the remaining copper rises upon its surface in red fiery bubbles.

the sea-language, is said of a ship, when an anchor being let fall will not hold her fast, nor prevent her falling away with the wind or tide. The best help in this case is to let fall more anchors, or to veer out more cable; for the more cable she has out, the safer she rides. When a ship is a-hull or a-try, they say the drives to leeward.