marriage portion or settlement for wife, matrimony, or rather the ratification of it before the judge, a marriage-portion or settlement which a husband is obliged to pay to his wife

pummeling

a group of falcons, eagles

country style heavy duty timber gallows brackets, a wooden hanging place

deed of marriage stipulations

pummeled, beaten

Pen name

cabinet (of ministers)

(of plaster) swell up (from the wall)

used for scaring away crows

sharp-sighted

while dancing, while walking