350. _stewe_, fish-pond. 'To insure a supply of fish, stew-ponds were attached to the manors, and few monasteries were without them; the moat around the castle was often converted into a fish-pond, and well stored with luce, carp, or tench.'--Our English Home, p. 65. _breem_, bream; _luce_, pike, from O. F. _luce_, Low Lat. _lucius_. 351. _Wo was his cook_, woeful or sad was his cook. We now only use _wo_ or _woe_ as a substantive. Cf. B. 757, E. 753; and 'I am _woe_ for 't'; Tempest, v. 1. 139. 'Who was _woo_ but Olyvere then?'--Sowdone of Babyloyne, l. 1271. Rob. of Brunne, in his Handlyng Synne, l. 7250, says that a rich man's cook 'may no day Greythe hym hys mete to pay.' _but-if_, unless. 351, 352. _sauce--Poynaunt_ is like the modern phrase _sauce piquante_. Cf. B. 4024. 'Our forefathers were great lovers of "piquant sauce." They made it of expensive condiments and rare spices.'--Our English Home, p. 62. 353. _table dormant_, irremoveable table. 'Previous to the fourteenth century a pair of common wooden trestles and a rough plank was deemed a table sufficient for the great hall.... Tables, with a board attached to a frame, were introduced about the time of Chaucer, and, from remaining in the hall, were regarded as indications of a ready hospitality.'--Our English Home, p. 29. Most tables were removeable; such a table was called a _bord_ (board). 355. _sessiouns._ At the Sessions of the Peace, at the meeting of the Justices of the Peace. Cf. '_At Sessions_ and at Sises we bare the stroke and swaye.'--Higgins' Mirrour for Magistrates, ed. 1571, p. 2. 356. _knight of the shire_, the designation given to the representative in parliament of an English county at large, as distinguished from the representatives of such counties and towns as are counties of themselves (Ogilvie). Chaucer was knight of the shire of Kent in 1386. _tym-e_ here represents the A. S. _t[=i]man_, pl. of _t[=i]ma_, a time. 357. _anlas_ or _anelace_. Speght defines this word as a _falchion_, or wood-knife. It was, however, a short two-edged knife or dagger usually worn at the girdle, broad at the hilt and tapering to a point. See the New Eng. Dictionary; Liber Albus, p. 75; Knight, Pict. Hist. of England, i. 872; Gloss. to Matthew Paris, s. v. _anelacius_; Riley's [35] Memorials of London, p. 15. The etymology is unknown; I _guess_ it to be from M. E. _an_, on, and _las_, a lace, i. e. 'on a lace,' a dagger that hung from a lace attached to the girdle. Cf. A. S. _bigyrdel_ (just below); and 'hanging on a laas' in l. 392.