WAY, a passage or road. The Roman ways are divided into consular, piwtori an, military, and public ; and of these we have four remarkable ones in England : firs;, %Vatling-street, or reel, leading tram Dover to London, Dui Towcester, Atterston, and the Severn, ex tending as far asAnglesea in Wales. The second, called Hikenild, or Ikenild-street, stretches from Southampton over the river Isis, at Newbridge; thence by Cam den and Lichfield; then passes the Der went, near Derby, and ends at finmouth. The third, called Fosse way, because in some places it was never perfected : but lies as a large ditch, leads from Cornwall through Devonshire, by Tethbuly, near Stow in the Wolds ; and beside Coventry to Leicester, Newark, and so to Lincoln. The rourth, called kl;ining, or Erminage street, extends from St. David's, in Wales, to Southampton WAY, in law. A way may be by pre scription, as, if the owners and occupiers of such a farm have immemorially used, to cross another's ground ; for this imme morial usage implies an originai grant.: A right of way may also arise by act and operation of law ; for if a man grant another a piece of ground in the middle of his field, he at the same time tacitly gives him a way to come at it ; for where the.
law gives any thing to any person, it gives implied whatever is necessary for en joy- ' mg the same.
WAY, /fluky. See GALAXY.
WAY of a 814, is sometimes the same as her rake, or run forward or backward: but this term is most commonly under stood of her sailing. Thus when she goes apace, it is said, that she hath a good way, or makes a fresh way. So when an an account is kept how fast she sails by the log, it is called keeping an account of her way ; and because most ships are apt to fall a little to leeward of their true course, they always, in casting up the log board, allow something for her leeward way WAY of the rounds, in fortification, is space left for the passage of the rounds between the rampart and the wall of a tbrtified town. This is not now much in use ; because the parapet, not being above a foot thick, is soon overthrown by the enemy's cannon.