TERING, part of the penalty anciently ordained in England for treason. Until 187o the full punishment for the crime was that the culprit be dragged on a hurdle to the place of execution ; that he be hanged by the neck but not till he was dead ; that he should be disembowelled or drawn and his entrails burned bef ore his eyes ; that his head be cut off and his body divided into four parts or quartered. This brutal penalty was first inflicted in 1284 on the Welsh prince David, and a few years later on Sir William Wallace. Edward Marcus Despard and his six accomplices were in 1803 hanged, drawn and quartered for conspiring to assassinate George III. The sentence was last passed (though not carried out) upon the Fenians Burke and O'Brien in 1867.
the English name generally employed for a room used in a dwelling-house for the reception of com pany. It is a shortened form of the 16th and 17th century "withdrawing room," and originated in the setting apart of a room for the ladies of the household, . to which they withdrew from the dining-room.