a village of Devonshire in England, situated on the river Lid, two or three miles east of Brent Tor, was formerly a famous town, with a castle. It was much destroyed by the Danes in 997. The village is now small, but the lands in the parish are rich and fertile, the whole forest of Dartmore being in the verge of it. The river here being pent up at the bridge with rocks, has made itself so deep a fall, that the noise of the water only is heard without being seen.