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PETTY

Volume 17 · 107 words · 1810 Edition

anything little or diminutive, when compared with another.

PETTY-Bag, an office in chancery; the three clerks of which record the return of all inquisitions out of every county, and make all patents of comptrollers, gaugers, customers, &c.

PETTY-Chaps. See Motacilla, Ornithology Index.

PETTY-Fogger, a little tricking solicitor or attorney, without either skill or conscience.

or Petit, Larceny. See Larceny.

PETTY-Potées, among confectioners, a sort of small pies, made of a rich crust filled with sweetmeats.

PETTY-Singlees, among falconers, are the toes of a hawk.

PETTY-Tally, in the fæa language, a competent allowance of victuals, according to the number of the ship's company.

or Petit, Treason. See Treason.