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• A little hollow space.

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

• In the civil law. A lake; a receptacle of water which is never dry. Dig. 43, 14, 1, 3. In old English law. Allay or alloy of silver with base metal. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 22,

1910 - Black's Law Dictionary (2nd edition)
By Henry Campbell Black