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shuttlecock (iou) and FATUOUS PERSON (law)


shuttlecock (iou)



shuttlecock noun, adjective, & verb. E16.
[from SHUTTLE noun1 + COCK noun1.]
A. noun.
A small piece of cork, rubber, etc., fitted with a ring of feathers, or a similar object made of plastic and rubber, hit backwards and forwards by players in the Games of badminton and battledore and shuttlecock. E16.
The game of battledore and shuttlecock (see BATTLEDORE 3). L16.
b. adjective. Light, fickle; tossed back and forth (chiefly fig.). M16.
C. verb.
verb trans. Throw or send backwards and forwards. L17.
verb intrans. Move backwards and forwards. L18.

FATUOUS PERSON (law)


FATUOUS PERSON. One entirely destitute of reason; is qui omnino desipit. Ersk. Inst. B. 1, tit. 7, s. 48. Ersk. Inst. B. 1, tit. 7, s. 48.