Latimer, Misc

Sel. Sometimes we put a new signification to an old word, as when we call a piece a Gun. Selden , Table-Talk, p. 65. (ct) A building; a castle. Yet still he bet and bounst uppon the dore, And thundred strokes thereon so hideous lie, That all the peece he shaked from the flore. Spenser, F. Q., V. ii. 21. The wondred Argo, which in venturous peece First through the Euxine seas bore all the flowr of Greece. Spenser , F. Q., II. xii. 44. (dt) A ship; a ve el. (e) A distinct artistic or literary production; a separate article, poem, drama, painting, statue, or other artistic or literary work: as, a piece of music; to speak a piece ; a finely painted piece . I bequeth to Edmund Paston, my sone, a standing pece white covered, with a garleek heed upon the knoppe, and a gilt pece covered with an unicorne.