Clerk of the pell$, an officer belonging to the exchequer, who enters every teller's bill into a parchment roll called pellis acceptorum, the roll of receipts ; and also makes another roll called pellis exituum, a roll of the disbursements. A complete dictionary of the English languageby Thomas Sheridan - 1797Full view - About this book
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 904 pages
...Confusedly ; tumultuously ; one among another; with confused violence (Hudilras). PELLS, s. (pellis, Lat.) Clerk of the pells, an officer belonging to the exchequer,...enters every teller's bill into a parchment roll called ¡»'¡i/ s acceptorum, the roll of receipts (Bailey). PELLU-CID. a. (pellucidus, Lat.) Clear; transparent... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 764 pages
...pell-mell, To fall-back and retreat as well. Hudibras. (i.) * PELLS »./. [fellis, Lat.l Clerk of the ftlli, an officer belonging to the exchequer, who enters every teller's bill into a parchment roll called pellit accfptorum, the roll of receipts ; and alfo had nearly loft his life, by trading bimfelf unarmed... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English language - 1828 - 860 pages
...tumnltuously ; "one among another ; with confused riolence. PELLS, (pelz) n.«. Clerk of the pilli, An officer belonging to the exchequer, who enters every teller's bill into a parchment roll called peiluacceptorum, the roll of receipts ; and also makes another roll called pella erituum, a roll of... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...White. PELLS, nt Lat. pellit, pell, a record. Rolls or records of the Exchequer. Clerk of the pell$, an officer belonging to the exchequer, who enters...roll called pellis acceptorum, the roll of receipts ; and also makes another roll called pellis exituum, a roll of the disbursements. Bailey. PEL'LUCID,... | |
| John Boag - English language - 1848 - 744 pages
...genera. PELL.MELL, pél-meT, adv. With confused violence. FCLL$, p¿Iz, n. Peut, or clerk of the peUe, an officer belonging to the exchequer, who enters every teller's bill into a parchment roll called peuis aoceptorum, the roll of receipts; and also makes another roll called реШв exituum, a roll... | |
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