peltrot (peltrot)

A disease in sheep, in which the wool falls off, leaving the body bare: hence sometimes called naked disease. peltryl (pel'tri), n.; pl. peltries (-triz). [ terie, skins collectively, the trade of a skinner, IMG:content-2591.png:[graphic] worn. The profits of a little traffick he drove in peltry . Smollett . The exports were land productions...and peltry from the Indians. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., II. 407. 2. A pelt; a fur-skin. Now and then the "Company's Yacht"... was sent to the fort with supplies, and to bring away the peltries which had been purchased of the Indians. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 178. make their living by trapping, pel T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXVI. 832. Frontiersmen tries being very valuable and yet not bulky. Shak., Lear, ii. 3. 18. peltry2t, n. [Appar. an error for or an alteration of pelfry (simulating pelter3, pelting2, pal try).] A trifle; trash. And so is moch spent, in finding out fine fetches and packing vp pelting matters. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 143. Pay the poor pelting knaves that know no goodne ; And cheer your heart up handsomely. Fletcher, Beggar's Bush, iv. 1. peltinglyt (pel'ting-li), adv . In a pelting or contemptible manner. Mine own modest petition, my friend's diligent labour, our High-Chancellor's most honourable and extraordinary commendation, were all peltingly defeated by a shy practice of the old Fox, whose acts and monuments shall never die. G. Harvey, Four Letters, iii.