Word Meanings - PEASANTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics. "A bold peasantry." Goldsmith. 2. Rusticity; coarseness. p. Butler.

BUTLERSHIP
The office of a butler.
COLLECTIVELY
In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
BUTLER
An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house. The butler and the baker of the king of Egypt. Gen. xl. 5. Your wine locked up, your
RUSTICITY
The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
PEASANTRY
1. Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics. "A bold peasantry." Goldsmith. 2. Rusticity; coarseness. p. Butler.
BUTLERAGE
A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.
COARSENESS
The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; melegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language. "The coarseness of the sackcloth." Dr. H. More. Pardon the coarseness of the illustration. L'Estrange.
GOLDSMITH
1. An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold. 2. A banker. Note: The goldsmiths of London formerly received money on deposit because they were prepared to keep it safely. Goldsmith beetle , a large, bright yellow, American
ARCHBUTLER
A chief butler; -- an officer of the German empire.