huslement

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“The want⟳ of which incomparable Artifice made them not onely erre in their font Cœleſtial Hypotheſis, and Cryſtalline wheel-work of the Heavens above us, but alſo in their nearer Obſervations of the minute Bodies and ſmalleſt ſort of Creatures about us, which have⟳ been by them but ſleightly and perfunctorily deſcribed, as being the diſregarded pieces and huſlement of the Creation; […]”

“The appraisers, as the valuers were normally called, listed every piece of household furniture, room by room, and then perhaps the livestock and crops, the contents of a workshop, and all the bits and pieces that were valued together as 'huslement'.”

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