alnage (alnaj)

[ aulnage (F. aunage ), alenage, ulnage. - Alnage duties, duties formerly paid in England on woolen cloths at so much per ell. The duties of subsidy and alenage of all wollen manufacto for the co of York and Lancaster. Record Soc . Lancashire and Cheshire, XI. 54. alnager (al'na-jer), nage [late ME. aulneger, OF. aulnegeor, The officer whose busine it was to examine into the a ize of woolen cloths was called the alnager. Archibald Brown, now Dict., p. 20. alnager ship (al'nā-jer-ship), n. The office or position of alnager. re Execution of the office of deputy alnager ship by the lators Sowerby and Brooks. Record Soc . Lancashire and Cheshire , XI. 68. alnascharism (al-nas'kär-izm), n. [ With maternal alnascharism she had, in her reveries, thrown back her head with disdain, as she repulsed the family advances of some wealthy but low-born heire . Mi Edge worth, Vivian, i.