The _alaunt_ is described in the Maister of the Game, c. 16. We there learn they were of all colours, and frequently white with a black spot about the ears. 2152. _Colers of_, having collars of. Some MSS. read _Colerd of_, which I now believe to be right. _Collared_ was an heraldic term, used of greyhounds, &c.; see the New Eng. Dict. This leaves an awkward construction, as _torets_ seems to be governed by _with_. See Launfal, 965, in Ritson, Met. Rom. i. 212. Cf. 'as they (the Jews) were tied up with girdles ... so were they _collared_ about the neck.'--Fuller's Pisgah Sight of Palestine, p. 524, ed. 1869. _torets_, probably eyes in which rings will turn round, because each eye is a little larger than the thickness of the ring. This appears from Chaucer's Astrolabe, i. 2. 1--'This ring renneth in a maner turet,' i. e. in a kind of eye (vol. iii. p. 178). Warton, in his Hist. E. Poet. ed. 1871, ii. 314, gives several instances. It also meant a small loose ring. Cotgrave gives: '_Touret_, the annulet, or little ring whereby a hawk's lune is fastened unto the jesses.' 'My lityll bagge of blakke ledyr with a cheyne and _toret_ of siluyr'; Bury Wills, ed. Tymms, p. 16. Cf. E. _swivel_-ring. 2156. _Emetrius_ is not mentioned either by Statius or by Boccaccio; cf. Tes. vi. 29, 17, 16, 41. 2158. _diapred_, variegated with flowery or arabesque patterns. See _diaspre_ and _diaspré_ in Godefroy's O. F. Dict.; _diasprus_ and _diasperatus_ in Ducange. In Le Rom. de la Rose, 21205, we find mention of _samis diaprés_, diapered samites. 2160. _cloth of Tars_, 'a kind of silk, said to be the same as in other places is called _Tartarine_ (_tartarinum_), the exact derivation of which appears to be somewhat uncertain.'--Wright. Cf. Piers the Plowman, B. xv. 224, and my note to the same, C. xvii. 299; also _Tartarium_ in Fairholt. 2187. _alle and some_, 'all and singular,' 'one and all.' [86] 2205. See the Teseide, vi. 8; also Our Eng. Home, 22.