to defeather a bird for cooking

a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder

He kept thinking about an episode of “Black Mirror,” the British dystopian anthology series, in which the characters rate everyone they interact with on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. (It doesn’t end well.)

About this time many rebels had ſeized the provinces of Irân, and ſet up for independent monarchs. This exceedingly diſpleaſed Timûr; who, having conquered the kingdom of Tûrân, which Jenghîz Khân formerly divided between his ſons Tuſhi and Jagatay, he reſolved to ſubdue the empire of Irân, or Perſia at large.