12.—Curtailments.

  1. Curtail stiff and strict, and leave a Swiss mountain.
  2. Curtail a large country in Asia, and leave the point of the under jaw.
  3. Curtail a scooping instrument, and leave to push.
  4. Curtail acute and discerning, and leave a kind of mouse.
  5. Curtail a raised floor or platform, and leave a horned animal.
  6. Curtail an island on the Kentish coast, and leave a Saxon nobleman.

C. J. B.