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116. 15. Les chevaux entravés, the horscs fettered. Arabians use a fetlock or horselock for that purpose; it is an instrument fixed on the leg of a horse when put to pasture for the purpose of preventing him from running ofî.

117. 1. la Grande Ourse, the constellation the Great Dipper or Bear or Ursa Major.

118. 13. Epire, Epirus or Epciros in ancient geography, a part of northern Greece. In earlier times this name was given to the entire western coast of Greece, southward to the Corinthian Gulf.