Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
Very large; huge.
Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent
Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).
The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
An animal skin, hide, pelt.
A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
A wild field or upland moor.
A cutting-down of timber.
The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
simple past tense of fall
To strike down, kill, destroy.
To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
Sharply; fiercely.
Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
Narrow; illiberal.
Constituting a province.
Of or pertaining to a province.
Limited in outlook; narrow.
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
A country bumpkin.
A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.