dryfab

Updated: May 14, 2025

But hence it became a metaphorical expression to mean merely the attainment of majority, and in this sense seems to have been very generally understood and not uncommonly used. See the following from an author who was no attorney or attorney's clerk: "Tut, you are master Dryfab, the merchant; your skill is greater in cony-skins and woolpacks than in gentlemen.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859