To cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features.

(nautical) To turn the head of a vessel either way by bracing the headyards aback. / To enclose an area and separate it from a larger area by surrounding it in walls.

(law) The advantage, allowed to a mortgager, of a certain or reasonable time to redeem lands mortgaged, after they have been forfeited at law by the non-payment of the sum of money due on the mortgage at the appointed time.

A surveyor's rod, usually ten links long, used in measuring offsets.

(archaic) Long ago; in days long past.

To make no difficulty of (a given occurrence); to consider (a particular occurrence) as trifling or unimportant. / To fail to understand.

To force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion.

plural of bird of Juno

plural of droit of admiralty

(UK, law) Any of certain customary rights or perquisites relating to enemy ships and property found at sea, including flotsam, jetsam, lagan, deodand, etc.