In former times, the swan was considered a great delicacy, and was served up at all sumptuous entertainments as a dish of state; but modern manners have inverted tastes. SWEINMOTE, or SWAIN-MOTE. This court is to be held before the verderers, as judges, by the steward of the sweinmote thrice in every year; the sweins, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. The principal jurisdiction of this court is, first to inquire into the oppressions and grievances committed by the officers of the forest: secondly, to receive and try presentments certified from the Court of Attachments against offences in vert and venison. And this court may not only inquire, but convict also; which conviction shall be certified to the Court of Justice Seat under the seals of the jury, for this court cannot proceed to judgment. The principal court (the Court of Justice Seat) may fine and imprison for offences within the forest, it being a court of record; therefore a writ of error lies hence to the Court of King's Bench to rectify and redress any mal-administration of justice; or the chief justice in eyre may adjourn any matter of law into the Court of King's Bench.-See EYRE, FOREST. SWEETBRIER, ch. foaled in 1769, bred by Mr. Meredith, who sold him to Lord Grosvenor. Sweetbrier was got by Syphon, his dam by Shakspeare; grandam Miss Meredith (the dam of Tartar) by Cade, out of the Little Hartley mare. Sweetbrier was never beat; he paid forfeit three times, viz. 50 gs. in a stakes won by Paymaster, beating Merry Traveller; 150 gs. to Firetail, to whom he was to have allowed 81b.; and 150 gs. in a stakes, won by Pulpé beating Firetail. In 1774 he beat Firetail, over B. C. 1000 guineas, at 8 st. each. At the Newmarket first October Meeting, 1775, he walked over for the cup, which was his last and only engagement that year. In 1777 Sweetbrier was a stallion in Lord Grosvenor's stud, at Balsham, at 25 guineas; in 1778 and 1779, at 30 guineas; in 1780 he was a private stallion; in 1781, at 25 guineas; in 1782, at 10 guineas; from SYNOCHUS. That kind of fe1783 to 1786, at 15 guineas; in ver which depends upon excess of 1787, at 10 guineas; and after- blood, is generally produced by takwards at 5 guineas. He was sold ing up a horse from grass, and putby auction by Mr. Tattersall, in ting him suddenly into a warm stable March, 1790, for 20 guineas. In upon oats and hay; or by feeding a 1794 he served mares at Totteridge horse high and giving him little or at 5 guineas each. Sweetbrier was no exercise. Fever thus produced sire of the following winners :- is always to be cured by early and Assassin, Bramble, Brier, Cha- copious bleeding, that is, by bleedperon, Chocolate, Czar, Dancer (D. [ing until faintness is produced; for of Grafton), Dancer (Lord Gros- which purpose it is generally necesvenor), Diadem, Duster, Excise- sary to take off from one to two galman, Gayman, Hare, Hocks, Lawn lons, and sometimes more. MediSleeves, Lee Boo, Lively, Premier, cine is of no use in this disorder, Raven, Rolla, Rose, Savage, Shift, unless it be caused by an acrimoSmock, Sunflower, Sweetmarjoram, nious state of blood and humours, Sweet Roseda, Sweet Robin, Thorn, and then it will be useful. and Violet. 1 TAIL. The continuation of the vertebræ of the back hanging loose behind. The horse's tail has undergone various modifications according to the fashion of the day, from the dock or stump of " lang syne,” to the brushy half-lengths of the present these, indeed, are the most rational and becoming, if any species of mutilation can be supposed to add to beauty. TAIL (To). In hunting, when you can cover the hounds with a sheet," they are said to carry a beautiful head; on the contrary, when they follow the leader in a line like a flight of wild fowl, they are said to tail.-Notes to Billesdon Coplow. TALLY-HO! (in Hunting). From "Tally," to mark. A shout, or cry, raised by him who first marks or catches a view, to draw attention, without creating disturbance. T This ex great grandam, sister to Sloven, by Bay Bolton; Curwen's Bay Barb; Old Spot; White-legged Lowther Barb; the Vintner mare. traordinary mare ran in almost all parts of the kingdom, and beat the very best horses in the North, notwithstanding she was a brood mare for years before she was taken into training. At the death of the Duke of Bolton she became the property of Peter Hammond, Esq., who gave her to the Rev. Mr. Lascelles, a Yorkshire gentleman; Mr. L. some time after made a present of her to a south country friend at Newmarket, who occasionally used her as a hack, and bred several foals from her by common stallions, before she was put to Snip. This wonderful mare was disposed of, after she was twenty years old, for five guineas, to a man who sold her again for one guinea advance; after which Mr. O'Kelly bought her for 100 guineas, the seller being highly elated with TARTAR, ch. foaled in 1743, his good fortune. It has been asbred by Mr. Leeds, was got by Old serted that Mr. O'Kelly cleared Partner, out of Meliora, by Fox; 30,000l. by her produce after she grandam Witty's Milkmaid, by came into his possession. It has Snail, out of a mare called the been frequently asserted, that the Shields Galloway. Tartar was a old mare was 36 years old, when very strong horse, an excellent she foaled Queen Mab. This, howracer, and not less esteemed as a ever, is highly improbable: Tartar stallion: he won several 50l. plates, was in training in 1748 and 1749, also the king's plates at Guildford, and there is no record of any other Lichfield, and Newmarket. Tartar of his get so early by several years, was sire of Miner, King Herod, nor indeed of his having covered at Beaufremont, Mr. Blake's Fanny, all before he was taken out of trainand Mr. O'Kelly's mare, dam of Mercury, Jupiter, and Volunteer, &c. Tartar covered in Yorkshire at two guineas; the charge was subsequently five guineas: he was nearly 15 hands high. He died in 1759, aged 16. TANTIVY. From tantâ vi, says Skinner. Tantivy, full speed. TARTAR MARE (Old), foaled about 1751, was bred by Mr. Leedes, who sold her to the Duke of Bolton. She was got by Tartar, dam by Mogul; grandam by Sweepstakes; ing altogether. She also produced a bay colt, by Snip; a ch. filly, by Snap; and a filly, by Bosphorus; all which were foaled before she was put to Eclipse. TEAL, (Anas crecca). This beautiful little bird is the smallest of the duck tribe. The male weighs nearly a pound, the female is not so heavy. The teal breeds in Ireland, and its nest is often found in the marshes and on the margins of sedgy pools in the north of England. It his neck, and keeps them so, he stays in France throughout the year. most assuredly is meditating misThe bill is black; the head and up-chief, and the stander-by should beper part of the neck of a deep bay; ware of his heels or his teeth. In play the ears will be laid back, but not so decidedly, nor so long. A quick change in their position, and more particularly the expression of the eye at the time, will distinguish between playfulness and vice. a broad bar of glossy changeable green, bounded on the lower side by a narrow white line, extends from the bill to the hind part of the head; the lower part of the neck, the beginning of the back, and the sides under the wings, are elegantly marked with wavy lines of black and white; the breast and belly of a dirty white; the vent black; the tail sharp-pointed and dusky; the coverts of the wings brown; the greater quill-feathers dusky; the exterior webs of the lesser marked with a glossy green spot, surmounted by another of black, with white tips; the legs dusky; the irides whitish. The female is of a brownish ash-colour, spotted with black, and has a green spot on the wing similar to that of the male. It is common in the London markets. TEETH.-See HORSE, AGE OF THE. TEGG. A doe in her second year. TEMPER. The ear of the horse is one of the most beautiful parts about him, and by few things is the temper more surely indicated than by its motion. The ear is more intelligible even than the eye, and an observer of the horse can tell by the expressive motion of the ears almost all that he thinks or means. It is a common saying, that when a horse lays his ears flat back upon The eye of the horse, too, enables us pretty accurately to guess at his temper. If much of the white be seen, the buyer should pause ere he completes his bargain. The mischievous horse is slily on the lookout for opportunities to do mischief, and the frequent backward direction of the eye, when the white is most perceptible, is only to give surer effect to the blow which he is about to aim. TENCH, (Cyprinus tinca). It has by some been called the physi cian of the fish; and its slime has been said to be of so healing a nature that the wounded fishes apply it as a styptic. In this country the tench is reckoned wholesome and delicious food; but the Germans are of a different opinion: Gesner pronounces it to be soft, insipid, and difficult of digestion. It does not commonly exceed four or five pounds, though some have been known to weigh ten. Tench are thick in proportion to their length: the colour of the back is dusky; the head, sides, and belly, of a greenish cast, most beautifully mixed with gold, which is in its greatest splendour when the fish is in highest season. Tench are considered pond-fish, though often found in the river Stour. They shed their spawn in July, and are in season from Septemper to May. They bite freely during the summer months, but must be fished for near the bottom; and they should have time to gorge the bait. Use strong tackle, and a good goose-quill float, without cork. The tench is easily taken, and will bite eagerly at large red worms, as well as at a cad-worm, a lob-worm, a flag-worm, &c. and also at all kinds of pastes. They are also readily caught with nets. The tench prefers foul waters, and its haunts will be found chiefly among weeds, and in places well shaded with rushes, They thrive the best in standing water, where they lie under weeds, near sluices, and pond heads. They are much more numerous in pools and pits than in rivers; but those taken in the latter are far preferable for the table. Tench are sometimes found in water where the mud is excessively fetid, and the weeds so thick that a hand-net can scarcely be thrust down. In these situations they attain their largest size, and their exterior becomes completely tinged by the mud. Their flavour from this, if cooked immediately on being taken out, is often very unpleasant; but if they are transferred to clear water, they soon recover from the obnoxious taint. the dedans are the first gallery door, second gallery, and the last gallery, which is called the service side. From the dedans to the last gallery are the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, at a yard distance each, by which the chaces are marked. On the one side of the line are also the first gallery door, second gallery, and last gallery; which is called the hazard side. Every man struck into the last gallery on this side reckons for a certain stroke the same as the dedans. Between the second and this last gallery are the figures 1, 2, to mark the chaces on the hazard side. Over this long gallery, or these compartments, is a covering called the pent-house, on which they play the ball from the service side, in order to begin a set of tennis, from which it is called a service. When they miss putting the ball (so as to rebound from the pent-house) over a certain line on the service side, it is deemed a fault, two of which are reckoned for a stroke. If the ball rolls round the pent-house, on the opposite side of the court, so as to fall beyond a certain line described for that purpose, it is called passe, reckons for nothing on either side, and the player must serve again. On the right hand side of the court from the dedans is the tambour, a part of the wall which projects, and is so contrived in order to make a variety in the stroke, and render it more difficult to be returned by the adversary; for, when a ball strikes the tambour, it varies its direction, and requires some extraordinary judgment to return it over the line. The last thing on the right hand side is called the grill, wherein if TENNIS (from Fr. tenez, or from Tennois, an ancient town of France.) A play at which a ball is driven by a racket. The size of a tennis-court is generally about ninety-six or ninety-seven feet by thirty-three or thirty-four. A line or net hangs exactly across the middle, over which the ball must be struck. Upon the entrance of a tennis-court the ball is struck, it is also fifteen, there is a long gallery which goes to the dedans, that is a kind of front gallery, into which, whenever a ball is struck, it tells for a certain stroke. This long gallery is divided into different compartments or galleries, each of which has its particular name, as follows: from the line towards or a certain stroke. The game of tennis is played by what they call sets: a set of tennis consists of six games; but if they play what is called an advantage set, two above five games must be won successively by one of the parties. When the player gives his service at the be TERRIER (Canis terrarius).—' This animal is supposed to have ginning of a set, his adversary is | stroke. This game is marked in a supposed to return the ball; and, singular manner. The first stroke whenever it falls after the first re- is called fifteen, the second thirty, bound untouched, the chace is called the third forty, and the fourth game, accordingly; for example, if the ball unless the players get four strokes at the figure 1, the chace is called each; in that case, instead of callat a yard, that is to say, at a yard it forty all, it is called deuce; after from the dedans: this chace re- which, as soon as any stroke is got, mains till a second service is given; it is called advantage; and, in case and if the player on the service the stroke becomes equal again, side lets the ball go after his adver- deuce again, till one or the other sary returns it, and if the ball falls gets two strokes following, which on or between any of these figures win the game. Although but one or chaces, they must change sides, ball at a time is played with, a there being two chaces; and he who number of balls are made use of at then will be on the hazard side, this game to avoid trouble, and are must play to win the first chace; handed to the players in baskets for which if he wins by striking the ball that purpose; by which they can so as to fall, after its first rebound, play as long as they please, without nearer to the dedans than the figure ever having occasion to look for a 1, without his adversary's being ball. able to return it from its first hop, he wins a stroke, and then proceeds in like manner to win the second chace, wherever it should happen to be. If a ball falls on the line with the first gallery door, second gallery, or last gallery, the chace is likewise called at such or such a place, naming the gallery door, &c. When it is just put over the line, it is called a chace at the line. If the player on the service side returns a ball with such force as to strike the wall on the hazard side so as to rebound, after the first hop over the line, it is also called a chace at the line. The chaces on the hazard side proceed from the ball being returned either too hard or not quite hard enough; so that the ball, after its first rebound, falls on this side of the blue line, or line which describes the hazard side chaces; in which case it is a chace at 1, 2, &c., provided there is no chace depending. When they change sides, the player, in order to win this chace, must put the ball over the line any where, so that his adversary does not return it. When there is no chace on the hazard side, all balls put over the line from the service side, without being returned, reckon for a derived his name from terra, the earth, on account of the avidity with which he penetrates into every hole when in pursuit of his game, being an implacable enemy to vermin of every description: he not only torments the fox, marten, badger, polecat, rat, and weasel, but endeavours to hunt every domestic cat he sees. In addition to this instinctive inveteracy, terriers join in the chase with the same alacrity as those dogs more immediately appropriated to the sports of the field. From the moment of throwing into cover, the emulation of these animals is so great, that they are indefatigable in their exertions to be up with the pack during their |