ordure (ordur)

[ IMG:content-1822.png:[blocks in formation] the Navy, under department. - Master of the ordnance. See master1.- Ordnance corps. Same as ordnance department. - Ordnance department. See department. - F.) ordure (= It. ordura ), filth, excrement, ment, which is equivalent to 126.72 inches to a mile, or 1 inch to 413 feet; for parishes (in cultivated districts), 2560 of the linear measurement, equal to 25.344 inches to a mile, or very nearly 1 square inch to an acre; for counties, 6 inches to a mile; for the kingdom, a general map, 1 inch to a mile. The purposes to which these large plans may be applied are as estate plans, for managing, draining, and otherwise improving land, for facilitating its transfer by registering sales and incumbrances, and as public maps, according to which local or general taxes may be levied, and roads, railways, canals, and other public works laid out and executed. - Rifled ordnance. See rifled cannon, under cannon.