court of domestic relations : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

card player
n 1: someone who plays (or knows how to play) card games

English Dictionary: court of domestic relations	by the DICT Development Group
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card table n a table for playing cards (as in a casino) a small light table with folding legs; can be folded for storage
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card-playing adj preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies" Synonym(s): dissipated, betting, card-playing, sporting
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cardboard adj without substance; "cardboard caricatures of historical figures" Synonym(s): cardboard, unlifelike n a stiff moderately thick paper [syn: cardboard, composition board]
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Cardiff n the capital and largest city of Wales
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cardiopathy n a disease of the heart [syn: heart disease, cardiopathy]
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cardiopulmonary adj of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions; "cardiopulmonary resuscitation" Synonym(s): cardiopulmonary, cardiorespiratory
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cardiopulmonary arrest n absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death Synonym(s): asystole, cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest
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cardiopulmonary exercise n exercise intended to strengthen the circulatory system
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cardiopulmonary resuscitation n an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen Synonym(s): cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, cardiac resuscitation, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, kiss of life
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cardiovascular adj of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels; "cardiovascular conditioning"
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cardiovascular disease n a disease of the heart or blood vessels
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cardiovascular system n the organs and tissues involved in circulating blood and lymph through the body Synonym(s): circulatory system, cardiovascular system
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cared-for adj having needed care and attention; "well-cared-for children" Antonym(s): uncared-for
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carrot family n plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill Synonym(s): Umbelliferae, family Umbelliferae, Apiaceae, family Apiaceae, carrot family
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carrot pudding n pudding made with grated carrots
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carrottop n someone who has red hair [syn: redhead, redheader, red-header, carrottop]
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cart off v take away by means of a vehicle; "They carted off the old furniture" Synonym(s): cart off, cart away, haul off, haul away
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carte blanche n complete freedom or authority to act
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Ceratopetalum n a dicotyledonous genus of the family Cunoniaceae [syn: Ceratopetalum, genus Ceratopetalum]
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Ceratopetalum gummiferum n Australian tree or shrub with red flowers; often used in Christmas decoration Synonym(s): Christmas bush, Christmas tree, Ceratopetalum gummiferum
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Ceratophyllaceae n coextensive with the genus Ceratophyllum: hornworts [syn: Ceratophyllaceae, family Ceratophyllaceae]
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Ceratophyllum n constituting the family Ceratophyllaceae: hornworts [syn: Ceratophyllum, genus Ceratophyllum]
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Ceratopogon n type genus of the Ceratopogonidae [syn: Ceratopogon, genus Ceratopogon]
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Ceratopogonidae n biting midges; sand flies [syn: Ceratopogonidae, {family Ceratopogonidae}]
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Ceratopsia n horned dinosaurs Synonym(s): Ceratopsia, suborder Ceratopsia
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ceratopsian n any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia Synonym(s): ceratopsian, horned dinosaur
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Ceratopsidae n American ceratopsian dinosaurs [syn: Ceratopsidae, family Ceratopsidae]
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Ceratopteris n water ferns Synonym(s): Ceratopteris, genus Ceratopteris
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Ceratopteris pteridioides n aquatic fern of tropical America often used in aquariums Synonym(s): floating fern, water sprite, Ceratopteris pteridioides
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Ceratopteris thalictroides n pantropical aquatic fern [syn: floating fern, Ceratopteris thalictroides]
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Certhia familiaris n common European brown-and-buff tree creeper with down- curved bill Synonym(s): European creeper, Certhia familiaris
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certifiable adj fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly) Synonym(s): certifiable, certified capable of being guaranteed or certified; "a certifiable fact"
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certificate n a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts Synonym(s): certificate, certification, credential, credentials a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends; "he held several valuable securities" Synonym(s): security, certificate v present someone with a certificate authorize by certificate
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certificate of deposit n a debt instrument issued by a bank; usually pays interest Synonym(s): certificate of deposit, CD
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certificate of incorporation n state approval of the articles of incorporation of a corporation
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certificate of indebtedness n a written promise to repay a debt [syn: debt instrument, obligation, certificate of indebtedness]
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certificated adj furnished with or authorized by a certificate: "certificated teachers"
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certification n the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on [syn: certification, enfranchisement] Antonym(s): disenfranchisement confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence Synonym(s): documentation, certification, corroboration a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts Synonym(s): certificate, certification, credential, credentials validating the authenticity of something or someone Synonym(s): authentication, certification
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certificatory adj serving to certify or endorse authoritatively
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certified adj endorsed authoritatively as having met certain requirements; "a certified public accountant" Antonym(s): uncertified fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly) Synonym(s): certifiable, certified holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill; "a registered pharmacist"; "a registered hospital" Synonym(s): certified, qualified
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certified check n a check containing certification that the person who issued the check has sufficient funds on deposit to cover payment Synonym(s): certified check, certified cheque
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certified cheque n a check containing certification that the person who issued the check has sufficient funds on deposit to cover payment Synonym(s): certified check, certified cheque
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certified milk n milk from dairies regulated by an authorized medical milk commission
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certified public accountant n an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a United States state to be certified by that state; "in addition to accounting and auditing, CPAs also prepare tax returns for individuals and corporations" Synonym(s): certified public accountant, CPA
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certify v provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes; "His high fever attested to his illness"; "The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication"; "This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness" Synonym(s): attest, certify, manifest, demonstrate, evidence guarantee payment on; of checks authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state" Synonym(s): license, licence, certify Antonym(s): decertify, derecognise, derecognize guarantee as meeting a certain standard; "certified grade AAA meat" Synonym(s): certify, endorse, indorse declare legally insane
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chard plant n beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks Synonym(s): chard, Swiss chard, spinach beet, leaf beet, chard plant, Beta vulgaris cicla
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charitable adj relating to or characterized by charity; "a charitable foundation" full of love and generosity; "charitable to the poor"; "a charitable trust" Antonym(s): uncharitable showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity; "was charitable in his opinions of others"; "kindly criticism"; "a kindly act"; "sympathetic words"; "a large-hearted mentor" Synonym(s): charitable, benevolent, kindly, sympathetic, good-hearted, openhearted, large-hearted
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charitable trust n a trust created for charitable or religious or educational or scientific purposes Synonym(s): charitable trust, public trust
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charitableness n generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate)
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charitably adv in a charitable manner; "she treated him charitably"
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charred pancake cup n a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae
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chordophone n a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers
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choroid plexus n a vascular plexus of the cerebral ventricles that regulate intraventricular pressure Synonym(s): choroid plexus, plexus choroideus
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choroid vein n either of two veins serving the choroid coat of the eye Synonym(s): choroid vein, vena choroidea
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cord blood n blood obtained from the umbilical cord at birth
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cordiform adj (of a leaf) shaped like a heart [syn: cordate, {heart- shaped}, cordiform]
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cordoba n the basic unit of money in Nicaragua; equal to 100 centavos Spanish explorer who discovered Yucatan (1475-1526) Synonym(s): Cordoba, Francisco Fernandez Cordoba, Cordova, Francisco Fernandez de Cordova a city in southern Spain; center of Moorish culture Synonym(s): Cordoba, Cordova a city in central Argentina; site of a university founded in 1613 Synonym(s): Cordoba, Cordova
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Cordova n Spanish explorer who discovered Yucatan (1475-1526) [syn: Cordoba, Francisco Fernandez Cordoba, Cordova, Francisco Fernandez de Cordova] a city in southern Spain; center of Moorish culture Synonym(s): Cordoba, Cordova a city in central Argentina; site of a university founded in 1613 Synonym(s): Cordoba, Cordova
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cordovan n a fine leather originally made in Cordoba, Spain
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coreid bug n a true bug Synonym(s): coreid bug, coreid
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Cortef n an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism Synonym(s): hydrocortisone, cortisol, Hydrocortone, Cortef
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court favor v seek favor by fawning or flattery; "This employee is currying favor with his superordinates" Synonym(s): curry favor, curry favour, court favor, court favour
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court favour v seek favor by fawning or flattery; "This employee is currying favor with his superordinates" Synonym(s): curry favor, curry favour, court favor, court favour
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court of appeals n a court whose jurisdiction is to review decisions of lower courts or agencies Synonym(s): appellate court, appeals court, court of appeals
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court of assize n the county courts of England (replaced in 1971 by Crown courts) Synonym(s): assizes, court of assize, court of assize and nisi prius
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court of assize and nisi prius n the county courts of England (replaced in 1971 by Crown courts) Synonym(s): assizes, court of assize, court of assize and nisi prius
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court of chancery n a court with jurisdiction in equity [syn: chancery, court of chancery]
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court of domestic relations n a court in some states in the United States that has jurisdiction over family disputes (especially those involving children) Synonym(s): family court, domestic relations court, court of domestic relations
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court of justice n a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws Synonym(s): court, lawcourt, court of law, court of justice
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court of law n a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws Synonym(s): court, lawcourt, court of law, court of justice
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Court of Saint James's n the British royal court
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court plaster n a plaster composed of isinglass on silk; formerly used to dress superficial wounds
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crateful n the quantity contained in a crate [syn: crate, crateful]
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Crateva n tropical genus of small trees or shrubs [syn: Crateva, genus Crateva]
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create by mental act v create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands Synonym(s): create by mental act, create mentally
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create from raw material v make from scratch [syn: create from raw material, {create from raw stuff}]
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create from raw stuff v make from scratch [syn: create from raw material, {create from raw stuff}]
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create verbally v create with or from words
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creative adj having the ability or power to create; "a creative imagination" Synonym(s): creative, originative Antonym(s): uncreative promoting construction or creation; "creative work"
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creative activity n the human act of creating [syn: creation, {creative activity}]
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creative person n a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination Synonym(s): artist, creative person
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creative thinker n an important intellectual; "the great minds of the 17th century" Synonym(s): thinker, creative thinker, mind
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creative thinking n the ability to create [syn: creativity, creativeness, creative thinking] Antonym(s): uncreativeness
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creatively adv in a creative manner; "she solved the problem creatively"
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creativeness n the ability to create [syn: creativity, creativeness, creative thinking] Antonym(s): uncreativeness
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creativity n the ability to create [syn: creativity, creativeness, creative thinking] Antonym(s): uncreativeness
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credibility n the quality of being believable or trustworthy [syn: credibility, credibleness, believability] Antonym(s): incredibility, incredibleness
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credible adj capable of being believed; "completely credible testimony"; "credible information" Synonym(s): credible, believable Antonym(s): incredible, unbelievable (a common but incorrect usage where `credulous' would be appropriate) credulous; "she was not the...credible fool he expected" appearing to merit belief or acceptance; "a credible witness"
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credibleness n the quality of being believable or trustworthy [syn: credibility, credibleness, believability] Antonym(s): incredibility, incredibleness
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credibly adv easy to believe on the basis of available evidence; "he talked plausibly before the committee"; "he will probably win the election" Synonym(s): credibly, believably, plausibly, probably Antonym(s): implausibly, improbably, incredibly, unbelievably
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crotaphion n the tip of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone
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Crotaphytus n collared lizards Synonym(s): Crotaphytus, genus Crotaphytus
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Crotophaga n ani Synonym(s): Crotophaga, genus Crotophaga
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cry out for v need badly or desperately; "This question cries out for an answer" Synonym(s): cry out for, cry for
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curative adj tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets" Synonym(s): curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic n a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain Synonym(s): remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
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Curitiba n a city in southeastern Brazil
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ca2rdoba \C[a2]r"doba\ (k[ocir]r"d[osl]v[aum]), n. [Prob. fr. the Spanish explorer Francisco Hern[a0]ndez de C[a2]rdoba.] The monetary unit of Nicaragua, equivalent to the United States gold dollar.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Card \Card\, n. [F. carte, fr. L. charta paper, Gr. [?] a leaf of paper. Cf. {Chart}.] 1. A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards. Our first cards were to Carabas House. --Thackeray. 2. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair. 3. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's card. --Shak. 4. (Weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See {Jacquard}. 5. An indicator card. See under {Indicator}. {Business card}, a card on which is printed an advertisement or business address. {Card basket} (a) A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers. (b) A basket made of cardboard. {Card catalogue}. See {Catalogue}. {Card rack}, a rack or frame for holding and displaying business or visiting card. {Card table}, a table for use inplaying cards, esp. one having a leaf which folds over. {On the cards}, likely to happen; foretold and expected but not yet brought to pass; -- a phrase of fortune tellers that has come into common use; also, according to the programme. {Playing card}, cards used in playing games; specifically, the cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards. {To have the cards in one's own hands}, to have the winning cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking. {To play one's cards well}, to make no errors; to act shrewdly. {To play snow one's cards}, to expose one's plants to rivals or foes. {To speak by the card}, to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card. {Visiting card}, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the address, of the person presenting it.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Re89ntry \Re*[89]n"try\ (-tr?), n. 1. A second or new entry; as, a re[89]ntry into public life. 2. (Law) A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease. --Burrill. {Card of re[89]try}, (Whist), a card that by winning a trick will bring one the lead at an advanced period of the hand.
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(c) (Mach.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc. (d) (Palmistry) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand. Mistress of a fairer table Hath not history for fable. --B. Jonson. 5. An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working. We may again Give to our tables meat. --Shak. The nymph the table spread. --Pope. 6. Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table. 7. The company assembled round a table. I drink the general joy of the whole table. --Shak. 8. (Anat.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diplo[89], in the walls of the cranium. 9. (Arch.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See {Water table}. 10. (Games) (a) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played. (b) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table. (c) pl. The games of backgammon and of draughts. [Obs.] --Chaucer. This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice. --Shak. 11. (Glass Manuf.) A circular plate of crown glass. A circular plate or table of about five feet diameter weighs on an average nine pounds. --Ure. 12. (Jewelry) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles. 13. (Persp.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also {perspective plane}. 14. (Mach.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened. {Bench table}, {Card table}, {Communion table}, {Lord's table}, etc. See under {Bench}, {Card}, etc. {Raised table} (Arch. & Sculp.), a raised or projecting member of a flat surface, large in proportion to the projection, and usually rectangular, -- especially intended to receive an inscription or the like. {Roller table} (Horology), a flat disk on the arbor of the balance of a watch, holding the jewel which rolls in and out of the fork at the end of the lever of the escapement. {Round table}. See Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. {Table anvil}, a small anvil to be fastened to a table for use in making slight repairs. {Table base}. (Arch.) Same as {Water table}. {Table bed}, a bed in the form of a table. {Table beer}, beer for table, or for common use; small beer. {Table bell}, a small bell to be used at table for calling servants. {Table cover}, a cloth for covering a table, especially at other than mealtimes. {Table diamond}, a thin diamond cut with a flat upper surface. {Table linen}, linen tablecloth, napkins, and the like. {Table money} (Mil. or Naut.), an allowance sometimes made to officers over and above their pay, for table expenses. {Table rent} (O. Eng. Law), rent paid to a bishop or religious, reserved or appropriated to his table or housekeeping. --Burrill. {Table shore} (Naut.), a low, level shore. {Table talk}, conversation at table, or at meals. {Table talker}, one who talks at table. {Table tipping}, {Table turning}, certain movements of tables, etc., attributed by some to the agency of departed spirits, and by others to the development of latent vital or spriritual forces, but more commonly ascribed to the muscular force of persons in connection with the objects moved, or to physical force applied otherwise. {Tables of a girder} [or] {chord} (Engin.), the upper and lower horizontal members. {To lay on the table}, in parliamentary usage, to lay, as a report, motion, etc., on the table of the presiding officer, -- that is, to postpone the consideration of, by a vote. {To serve tables} (Script.), to provide for the poor, or to distribute provisions for their wants. --Acts vi. 2. {To turn the tables}, to change the condition or fortune of contending parties; -- a metaphorical expression taken from the vicissitudes of fortune in gaming. {Twelve tables} (Rom. Antiq.), a celebrated body of Roman laws, framed by decemvirs appointed 450 years before Christ, on the return of deputies or commissioners who had been sent to Greece to examine into foreign laws and institutions. They consisted partly of laws transcribed from the institutions of other nations, partly of such as were altered and accommodated to the manners of the Romans, partly of new provisions, and mainly, perhaps, of laws and usages under their ancient kings. --Burrill.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Card \Card\, n. [F. carte, fr. L. charta paper, Gr. [?] a leaf of paper. Cf. {Chart}.] 1. A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards. Our first cards were to Carabas House. --Thackeray. 2. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair. 3. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's card. --Shak. 4. (Weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See {Jacquard}. 5. An indicator card. See under {Indicator}. {Business card}, a card on which is printed an advertisement or business address. {Card basket} (a) A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers. (b) A basket made of cardboard. {Card catalogue}. See {Catalogue}. {Card rack}, a rack or frame for holding and displaying business or visiting card. {Card table}, a table for use inplaying cards, esp. one having a leaf which folds over. {On the cards}, likely to happen; foretold and expected but not yet brought to pass; -- a phrase of fortune tellers that has come into common use; also, according to the programme. {Playing card}, cards used in playing games; specifically, the cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards. {To have the cards in one's own hands}, to have the winning cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking. {To play one's cards well}, to make no errors; to act shrewdly. {To play snow one's cards}, to expose one's plants to rivals or foes. {To speak by the card}, to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card. {Visiting card}, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the address, of the person presenting it.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cardboard \Card"board`\ (k[aum]rd"b[omac]rd`), n. A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.
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Negro \Ne"gro\, a. Of or pertaining to negroes; black. {Negro bug} (Zo[94]l.), a minute black bug common on the raspberry and blackberry. It produced a very disagreeable flavor. {negro corn}, the Indian millet or durra; -- so called in the West Indies. see {Durra}. --McElrath. {Negro fly} (Zo[94]l.), a black dipterous fly ({Psila ros[91]}) which, in the larval state, is injurious to carrots; -- called also {carrot fly}. {Negro head} (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. [Cant] --McElrath. {Negro monkey} (Zo[94]l.), the moor monkey.
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Cartbote \Cart"bote`\, n. [Cart + bote.] (Old Eng. Law.) Wood to which a tenant is entitled for making and repairing carts and other instruments of husbandry.
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Ceratobranchial \Cer`atobran"chi*al\, a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch. -- n. A ceratobranchial bone, or cartilage.
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Horned \Horned\, a. Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn. The horned moon with one bright star Within the nether tip. --Coleridge. {Horned bee} (Zo[94]l.), a British wild bee ({Osmia bicornis}), having two little horns on the head. {Horned dace} (Zo[94]l.), an American cyprinoid fish ({Semotilus corporialis}) common in brooks and ponds; the common chub. See Illust. of {Chub}. {Horned frog} (Zo[94]l.), a very large Brazilian frog ({Ceratophrys cornuta}), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids. {Horned grebe} (Zo[94]l.), a species of grebe ({Colymbus auritus}), of Arctic Europe and America, having two dense tufts of feathers on the head. {Horned horse} (Zo[94]l.), the gnu. {Horned lark} (Zo[94]l.), the shore lark. {Horned lizard} (Zo[94]l.), the horned toad. {Horned owl} (Zo[94]l.), a large North American owl ({Bubo Virginianus}), having a pair of elongated tufts of feathers on the head. Several distinct varieties are known; as, the Arctic, Western, dusky, and striped horned owls, differing in color, and inhabiting different regions; -- called also {great horned owl}, {horn owl}, {eagle owl}, and {cat owl}. Sometimes also applied to the {long-eared owl}. See {Eared owl}, under {Eared}. {Horned poppy}. (Bot.) See {Horn poppy}, under {Horn}. {Horned pout} (Zo[94]l.), an American fresh-water siluroid fish; the bullpout. {Horned rattler} (Zo[94]l.), a species of rattlesnake ({Crotalus cerastes}), inhabiting the dry, sandy plains, from California to Mexico. It has a pair of triangular horns between the eyes; -- called also {sidewinder}. {Horned ray} (Zo[94]l.), the sea devil. {Horned screamer} (Zo[94]l.), the kamichi. {Horned snake} (Zo[94]l.), the cerastes. {Horned toad} (Zo[94]l.), any lizard of the genus {Phrynosoma}, of which nine or ten species are known. These lizards have several hornlike spines on the head, and a broad, flat body, covered with spiny scales. They inhabit the dry, sandy plains from California to Mexico and Texas. Called also {horned lizard}. {Horned viper}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Cerastes}.
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Cerotype \Ce"ro*type`\, n. [Gr. [?] wax + -type.] A printing process of engraving on a surface of wax spread on a steel plate, for electrotyping.
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Certificate \Certif"icate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Certificated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Certificating}.] [See {Certify}.] 1. To verify or vouch for by certificate. 2. To furnish with a certificate; as, to certificate the captain of a vessel; a certificated teacher.
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Certificate \Certif"icate\, n. [F. certificat, fr. LL. certificatus made certain, p. p. of certificare. See {tify}.] 1. A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior. 2. A written declaration legally authenticated. {Trial by certificate}, a trial which the testimony of the person certifying is the only proper criterion of the point in dispute; as, when the issue is whether a person was absent in the army, this is tried by the certificate of the proper officer in writing, under his seal. --Blackstone.
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Certificate \Certif"icate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Certificated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Certificating}.] [See {Certify}.] 1. To verify or vouch for by certificate. 2. To furnish with a certificate; as, to certificate the captain of a vessel; a certificated teacher.
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Certificate \Certif"icate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Certificated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Certificating}.] [See {Certify}.] 1. To verify or vouch for by certificate. 2. To furnish with a certificate; as, to certificate the captain of a vessel; a certificated teacher.
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Certification \Cer`tifica"tion\, n.[L. certificatio: cf. F. certification.] The act of certifying.
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Certify \Cer"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Certified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Certifying}.] [F. certifier, LL. certificare; L. certus certain + facere to make. See {Certain}, and cf. {Certificate}, v. t.] 1. To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain. We certify the king, that . . . thou shalt have no portion on this side the river. --Ezra iv. 16. 2. To give certain information of; to make certain, as a fact; to verify. --Hammond. The industry of science at once certifies and greatly extends our knowledge of the vastness of the creation. --I. Taylor. 3. To testify to in writing; to make a declaration concerning, in writing, under hand, or hand and seal. The judges shall certify their opinion to the chancellor, and upon such certificate the decree is usually founded. --Blackstone. {Certified check}, A bank check, the validity of which is certified by the bank on which it is drawn.
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Certify \Cer"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Certified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Certifying}.] [F. certifier, LL. certificare; L. certus certain + facere to make. See {Certain}, and cf. {Certificate}, v. t.] 1. To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain. We certify the king, that . . . thou shalt have no portion on this side the river. --Ezra iv. 16. 2. To give certain information of; to make certain, as a fact; to verify. --Hammond. The industry of science at once certifies and greatly extends our knowledge of the vastness of the creation. --I. Taylor. 3. To testify to in writing; to make a declaration concerning, in writing, under hand, or hand and seal. The judges shall certify their opinion to the chancellor, and upon such certificate the decree is usually founded. --Blackstone. {Certified check}, A bank check, the validity of which is certified by the bank on which it is drawn.
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Copy \Cop"y\ (k[ocr]p"[ycr]), n.; pl. {Copies} (-[icr]z). [F. copie, fr. L. copia abundance, number, LL. also, a transcript; co- + the root of opes riches. See {Opulent}, and cf. {Copious}.] 1. An abundance or plenty of anything. [Obs.] She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humor thus. --B. Jonson. 2. An imitation, transcript, or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue. I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original. --Denham. 3. An individual book, or a single set of books containing the works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of Addison. 4. That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation. Let him first learn to write, after a copy, all the letters. --Holder. 5. (print.) Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy. 6. A writing paper of a particular size. Same as {Bastard}. See under {Paper}. 7. Copyhold; tenure; lease. [Obs.] --Shak. {Copy book}, a book in which copies are written or printed for learners to imitate. {Examined copies} (Law), those which have been compared with the originals. {Exemplified copies}, those which are attested under seal of a court. {Certified [or] Office} {copies}, those which are made or attested by officers having charge of the originals, and authorized to give copies officially. --Abbot. Syn: Imitation; transcript; duplicate; counterfeit.
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Certifier \Cer"ti*fi`er\, n. One who certifies or assures.
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Certify \Cer"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Certified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Certifying}.] [F. certifier, LL. certificare; L. certus certain + facere to make. See {Certain}, and cf. {Certificate}, v. t.] 1. To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain. We certify the king, that . . . thou shalt have no portion on this side the river. --Ezra iv. 16. 2. To give certain information of; to make certain, as a fact; to verify. --Hammond. The industry of science at once certifies and greatly extends our knowledge of the vastness of the creation. --I. Taylor. 3. To testify to in writing; to make a declaration concerning, in writing, under hand, or hand and seal. The judges shall certify their opinion to the chancellor, and upon such certificate the decree is usually founded. --Blackstone. {Certified check}, A bank check, the validity of which is certified by the bank on which it is drawn.
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Certify \Cer"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Certified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Certifying}.] [F. certifier, LL. certificare; L. certus certain + facere to make. See {Certain}, and cf. {Certificate}, v. t.] 1. To give cetain information to; to assure; to make certain. We certify the king, that . . . thou shalt have no portion on this side the river. --Ezra iv. 16. 2. To give certain information of; to make certain, as a fact; to verify. --Hammond. The industry of science at once certifies and greatly extends our knowledge of the vastness of the creation. --I. Taylor. 3. To testify to in writing; to make a declaration concerning, in writing, under hand, or hand and seal. The judges shall certify their opinion to the chancellor, and upon such certificate the decree is usually founded. --Blackstone. {Certified check}, A bank check, the validity of which is certified by the bank on which it is drawn.
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Charitable \Char"itable\, a.[F. See {Charity}.] 1. Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind. Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . . . . . I will speak to thee. --Shak. 2. Liberal in judging of others; disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment. 3. Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent. What charitable men afford to beggars. --Shak. 4. Of or pertaining to charity; springing from, or intended for, charity; relating to almsgiving; eleemosynary; as, a charitable institution. 5. Dictated by kindness; favorable; lenient. By a charitable construction it may be a sermon. --L. Andrews. Syn: Kind; beneficent; benevolent; generous; lenient; forgiving; helpful; liberal; favorable; indulgent.
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Charitableness \Char"itable*ness\, n. The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.
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Charitably \Char"itably\, adv. In a charitable manner.
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Packing \Pack"ing\, n. 1. The act or process of one who packs. 2. Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close. Specifically (Mach.): A substance or piece used to make a joint impervious; as: (a) A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint. (b) The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides. (c) A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc. 3. (Masonry) Same as {Filling}. [Rare in the U. S.] 4. A trick; collusion. [Obs.] --Bale. {Cherd packing} (Bridge Building), the arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars, diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord. --Waddell. {Packing box}, a stuffing box. See under {Stuffing}. {Packing press}, a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay, etc. {Packing ring}. See {Packing}, 2 (c), and Illust. of {Piston}. {Packing sheet}. (a) A large cloth for packing goods. (b) A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.
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Chord \Chord\, n. [L chorda a gut, a string made of a gut, Gr. [?]. In the sense of a string or small rope, in general, it is written cord. See {Cord}.] 1. The string of a musical instrument. --Milton. 2. (Mus.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord. 3. (Geom.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve. 4. (Anat.) A cord. See {Cord}, n., 4. 5. (Engin.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension. --Waddell. {Accidental, Common, [and] Vocal} {chords}. See under {Accidental}, {Common}, and {Vocal}. {Chord of an arch}. See Illust. of {Arch}. {Chord of curvature}, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that point. {Scale of chords}. See {Scale}.
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Chord \Chord\, n. [L chorda a gut, a string made of a gut, Gr. [?]. In the sense of a string or small rope, in general, it is written cord. See {Cord}.] 1. The string of a musical instrument. --Milton. 2. (Mus.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord. 3. (Geom.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve. 4. (Anat.) A cord. See {Cord}, n., 4. 5. (Engin.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension. --Waddell. {Accidental, Common, [and] Vocal} {chords}. See under {Accidental}, {Common}, and {Vocal}. {Chord of an arch}. See Illust. of {Arch}. {Chord of curvature}, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that point. {Scale of chords}. See {Scale}.
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Curvature \Cur"va*ture\ (k?r"v?-t?r; 135), n. [L. curvatura. See {Curvate}.] 1. The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direction; a bend; a curve. --Cowper. The elegant curvature of their fronds. --Darwin. 2. (Math.) The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. {Aberrancy of curvature} (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form. {Absolute curvature}. See under {Absolute}. {Angle of curvature} (Geom.), one that expresses the amount of curvature of a curve. {Chord of curvature}. See under {Chord}. {Circle of curvature}. See {Osculating circle of a curve}, under {Circle}. {Curvature of the spine} (Med.), an abnormal curving of the spine, especially in a lateral direction. {Radius of curvature}, the radius of the circle of curvature, or osculatory circle, at any point of a curve.
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Sea laces \Sea" la"ces\ (Bot.) A kind of seaweed ({Chorda Filum}) having blackish cordlike fronds, often many feet long.
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Choroid \Cho"roid\, a. [gr. [?]; [?] chorion + [?] form.] (Anat.) resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball. -- n. The choroid coat of the eye. See {Eye}. {Choroid plexus} (Anat.), one of the delicate fringelike processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels, which project into the ventricles of the brain.
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Cordoform \Cor"do*form\ (k?r"d?-f?rm), a. [L. cor, cordis, heart + -form, cf. F. cordiforme.] Heart-shaped. --Gray.
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Cordovan \Cor"dovan\ (k[ocir]r"d[osl]v>acr/n), n. [Sp. cordoban, fr. Cordova, or Cordoba, in Spain. Cf. {Cordwain}.] Same as {Cordwain}. In England the name is applied to leather made from horsehide.
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Corrodibility \Corro`dibil"i*ty\ (k?r-r?`d?-b?l"?-t?), n. The quality of being corrodible. [R.] --Johnson.
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Corrodible \Corrod"ible\ (k?r-r?"d?-b'l), a. Capable of being corroded; corrosible. --Sir T. Browne.
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
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Fool \Fool\, n. [OE. fol, n. & adj., F. fol, fou, foolish, mad; a fool, prob. fr. L. follis a bellows, wind bag, an inflated ball; perh. akin to E. bellows. Cf. {Folly}, {Follicle}.] 1. One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural. 2. A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt. Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools. --Milton. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. --Franklin. 3. (Script.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. --Ps. xiv. 1. 4. One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments. Can they think me . . . their fool or jester? --Milton. {April fool}, {Court fool}, etc. See under {April}, {Court}, etc. {Fool's cap}, a cap or hood to which bells were usually attached, formerly worn by professional jesters. {Fool's errand}, an unreasonable, silly, profitless adventure or undertaking. {Fool's gold}, iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color. {Fool's paradise}, a name applied to a limbo (see under {Limbo}) popularly believed to be the region of vanity and nonsense. Hence, any foolish pleasure or condition of vain self-satistaction. {Fool's parsley} (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant ({[92]thusa Cynapium}) resembling parsley, but nauseous and poisonous. {To make a fool of}, to render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame. [Colloq.] {To play the fool}, to act the buffoon; to act a foolish part. [bd]I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.[b8] --1 Sam. xxvi. 21.
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
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Arches \Arch"es\, pl. of {Arch}, n. {Court of arches}, or {Arches Court} (Eng. Law), the court of appeal of the Archbishop of Canterbury, whereof the judge, who sits as deputy to the archbishop, is called the Dean of the Arches, because he anciently held his court in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow (de arcubus). It is now held in Westminster. --Mozley & W.
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
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Arches \Arch"es\, pl. of {Arch}, n. {Court of arches}, or {Arches Court} (Eng. Law), the court of appeal of the Archbishop of Canterbury, whereof the judge, who sits as deputy to the archbishop, is called the Dean of the Arches, because he anciently held his court in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow (de arcubus). It is now held in Westminster. --Mozley & W.
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
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Audience \Au"di*ence\, n. [F. audience, L. audientia, fr. audire to hear. See {Audible}, a.] 1. The act of hearing; attention to sounds. Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend. --Milton. 2. Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business. According to the fair play of the world, Let me have audience: I am sent to speak. --Shak. 3. An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers. Fit audience find, though few. --Milton. He drew his audience upward to the sky. --Dryden. {Court of audience}, or {Audience court} (Eng.), a court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop of York. --Mozley & W. {In general} (or {open}) {audience}, publicly. {To give audience}, to listen; to admit to an interview.
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Cassation \Cas*sa"tion\, n. [F. cassation. See {Cass}.] The act of annulling. A general cassation of their constitutions. --Motley. {Court of cassation}, the highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts.
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
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Chivalry \Chiv"al*ry\, n. [F. chevalerie, fr. chevalier knight, OF., horseman. See {Chevalier}, and cf. {Cavalry}.] 1. A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry. [bd]His Memphian chivalry.[b8] --Milton. By his light Did all the chivalry of England move, To do brave acts. --Shak. 2. The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry. --Dryden. 3. The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc. The glory of our Troy this day doth lie On his fair worth and single chivalry. --Shak. 4. (Eng. Law) A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord. 5. Exploit. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney. {Court of chivalry}, a court formerly held before the lord high constable and earl marshal of England as judges, having cognizance of contracts and other matters relating to deeds of arms and war. --Blackstone.
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Court \Court\, n. {Court of claims} (Law), a court for settling claims against a state or government; specif., a court of the United States, created by act of Congress, and holding its sessions at Washington. It is given jurisdiction over claims on contracts against the government, and sometimes may advise the government as to its liabilities. d8Couveuse \[d8]Cou`veuse"\, n. [F.] (Med.) An incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
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Conscience \Con"science\, n. [F. conscience, fr. L. conscientia, fr. consciens, p. pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire to know. See {Science}.] 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. [Obs.] The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. --Denham. 2. The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. --Shak. As science means knowledge, conscience etymologically means self-knowledge . . . But the English word implies a moral standard of action in the mind as well as a consciousness of our own actions. . . . Conscience is the reason, employed about questions of right and wrong, and accompanied with the sentiments of approbation and condemnation. --Whewell. 3. The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty. Conscience supposes the existence of some such [i.e., moral] faculty, and properly signifies our consciousness of having acted agreeably or contrary to its directions. --Adam Smith. 4. Tenderness of feeling; pity. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Conscience clause}, a clause in a general law exempting persons whose religious scruples forbid compliance therewith, -- as from taking judicial oaths, rendering military service, etc. {Conscience money}, stolen or wrongfully acquired money that is voluntarily restored to the rightful possessor. Such money paid into the United States treasury by unknown debtors is called the Conscience fund. {Court of Conscience}, a court established for the recovery of small debts, in London and other trading cities and districts. [Eng.] --Blackstone. {In conscience}, {In all conscience}, in deference or obedience to conscience or reason; in reason; reasonably. [bd]This is enough in conscience.[b8] --Howell. [bd]Half a dozen fools are, in all conscience, as many as you should require.[b8] --Swift. {To make conscience of}, {To make a matter of conscience}, to act according to the dictates of conscience concerning (any matter), or to scruple to act contrary to its dictates.
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Request \Re*quest"\ (r?-kw[b5]st"), n. [OE. requeste, OF. requeste, F. requ[?]te, LL. requesta, for requisita, fr. L. requirere, requisitum, to seek again, ask for. See {Require}, and cf. {Quest}.] 1. The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty. I will marry her, sir, at your request. --Shak. 2. That which is asked for or requested. [bd]He gave them their request.[b8] --Ps. cvi. 15. I will both hear and grant you your requests. --Shak. 3. A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or asked for; demand. Knowledge and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now. --Sir W. Temple. {Court of Requests}. (a) A local tribunal, sometimes called {Court of Consience}, founded by act of Parliament to facilitate the recovery of small debts from any inhabitant or trader in the district defined by the act; -- now mostly abolished. (b) A court of equity for the relief of such persons as addressed the sovereign by supplication; -- now abolished. It was inferior to the Court of Chancery. [Eng.] --Brande & C. Syn: Asking; solicitation; petition; prayer; supplication; entreaty; suit.
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Delegate \Del"e*gate\, n. [L. delegatus, p. p. of delegare to send, delegate; de- + legare to send with a commission, to depute. See {Legate}.] 1. Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar. 2. (a) One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting. (b) One sent by any constituency to act as its representative in a convention; as, a delegate to a convention for nominating officers, or for forming or altering a constitution. [U.S.] {Court of delegates}, formerly, the great court of appeal from the archbishops' courts and also from the court of admiralty. It is now abolished, and the privy council is the immediate court of appeal in such cases. [Eng.]
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
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Instance \In"stance\, n. [F. instance, L. instantia, fr. instans. See {Instant}.] 1. The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. Undertook at her instance to restore them. --Sir W. Scott. 2. That which is instant or urgent; motive. [Obs.] The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. --Shak. 3. Occasion; order of occurrence. These seem as if, in the time of Edward I., they were drawn up into the form of a law, in the first instance. --Sir M. Hale. 4. That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example. Most remarkable instances of suffering. --Atterbury. 5. A token; a sign; a symptom or indication. --Shak. {Causes of instance}, those which proceed at the solicitation of some party. --Hallifax. {Court of first instance}, the court by which a case is first tried. {For instance}, by way of example or illustration. {Instance Court} (Law), the Court of Admiralty acting within its ordinary jurisdiction, as distinguished from its action as a prize court. Syn: Example; case. See {Example}.
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Honor \Hon"or\, n. [OE. honor, honour, onour, onur, OF. honor, onor, honur, onur, honour, onour, F. honneur, fr. L. honor, honos.] [Written also {honour}.] 1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. --Matt. xiii. 57. 2. That which rightfully attracts esteem, respect, or consideration; self-respect; dignity; courage; fidelity; especially, excellence of character; high moral worth; virtue; nobleness; specif., in men, integrity; uprightness; trustworthness; in women, purity; chastity. If she have forgot Honor and virtue. --Shak. Godlike erect, with native honor clad. --Milton. 3. A nice sense of what is right, just, and true, with course of life correspondent thereto; strict conformity to the duty imposed by conscience, position, or privilege. Say, what is honor? 'T is the finest sense Of justice which the human mind can frame, Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim, And guard the way of life from all offense Suffered or done. --Wordsworth. I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more. --Lovelace. 4. That to which esteem or consideration is paid; distinguished position; high rank. [bd]Restored me to my honors.[b8] --Shak. I have given thee . . . both riches, and honor. --1 Kings iii. 13. Thou art clothed with honor and majesty. --Ps. civ. 1. 5. Fame; reputation; credit. Some in theiractions do woo, and affect honor and reputation. --Bacon. If my honor is meant anything distinct from conscience, 't is no more than a regard to the censure and esteem of the world. --Rogers. 6. A token of esteem paid to worth; a mark of respect; a ceremonial sign of consideration; as, he wore an honor on his breast; military honors; civil honors. [bd]Their funeral honors.[b8] --Dryden. 7. A cause of respect and fame; a glory; an excellency; an ornament; as, he is an honor to his nation. 8. A title applied to the holders of certain honorable civil offices, or to persons of rank; as, His Honor the Mayor. See Note under {Honorable}. 9. (Feud. Law) A seigniory or lordship held of the king, on which other lordships and manors depended. --Cowell. 10. pl. Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as, honors in classics. 11. pl. (Whist) The ace, king, queen, and jack of trumps. The ten and nine are sometimes called Dutch honors. --R. A. Proctor. {Affair of honor}, a dispute to be decided by a duel, or the duel itself. {Court of honor}, a court or tribunal to investigate and decide questions relating to points of honor; as a court of chivalry, or a military court to investigate acts or omissions which are unofficerlike or ungentlemanly in their nature. {Debt of honor}, a debt contracted by a verbal promise, or by betting or gambling, considered more binding than if recoverable by law. {Honor bright!} An assurance of truth or fidelity. [Colloq.] {Honor court} (Feudal Law), one held in an honor or seignory. {Honor point}. (Her.) See {Escutcheon}. {Honors of war} (Mil.), distinctions granted to a vanquished enemy, as of marching out from a camp or town armed, and with colors flying. {Law, [or] Code}, {of honor}, certain rules by which social intercourse is regulated among persons of fashion, and which are founded on a regard to reputation. --Paley. {Maid of honor}, a lady of rank, whose duty it is to attend the queen when she appears in public.
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Inquiry \In*quir"y\, n.; pl. {Inquiries}. [See {Inquire}.] [Written also {enquiry}.] 1. The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning. He could no path nor track of foot descry, Nor by inquiry learn, nor guess by aim. --Spenser. The men which were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate. --Acts x. 17. 2. Search for truth, information, or knoledge; examination into facts or principles; research; invextigation; as, physical inquiries. All that is wanting to the perfection of this art will undoubtedly be found, if able men . . . will make inquiry into it. --Dryden. {Court of inquiry}. See under {Court}. {Writ of inquiry}, a writ issued in certain actions at law, where the defendant has suffered judgment to pass against him by default, in order to ascertain and assess the plaintiff's damages, where they can not readily be ascertained by mere calculation. --Burrill. Syn: Interrogation; interrogatory; question; query; scrutiny; investigation; research; examination.
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
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Inquiry \In*quir"y\, n.; pl. {Inquiries}. [See {Inquire}.] [Written also {enquiry}.] 1. The act of inquiring; a seeking for information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning. He could no path nor track of foot descry, Nor by inquiry learn, nor guess by aim. --Spenser. The men which were sent from Cornelius had made inquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate. --Acts x. 17. 2. Search for truth, information, or knoledge; examination into facts or principles; research; invextigation; as, physical inquiries. All that is wanting to the perfection of this art will undoubtedly be found, if able men . . . will make inquiry into it. --Dryden. {Court of inquiry}. See under {Court}. {Writ of inquiry}, a writ issued in certain actions at law, where the defendant has suffered judgment to pass against him by default, in order to ascertain and assess the plaintiff's damages, where they can not readily be ascertained by mere calculation. --Burrill. Syn: Interrogation; interrogatory; question; query; scrutiny; investigation; research; examination.
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
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Justiciary \Justi"cia*ry\, n. [Cf. LL. justitiarius, F. justicier. See {Justice}.] (Old Eng. Law) An old name for the judges of the higher English courts. Note: The chief justiciary, or justiciar, in early English history, was not only the chief justice of the kingdom, but also ex officio regent in the king's absence. {Court of justiciary} (Scots Law), the supreme criminal court, having jurisdiction over the whole of Scotland.
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Marshalsea \Mar"shal*sea\, n. [Marshal + OE. se a seat. See {See} a seat.] The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household. [Eng.] {Court of Marshalsea}, a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house to administer justice between the king's domestic servants. --Blackstone.
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Peculiar \Pe*cul"iar\, n. 1. That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic. Revenge is . . . the peculiar of Heaven. --South. 2. (Eng. Canon Law) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary. {Court of Peculiars} (Eng. Law), a branch of the Court of Arches having cognizance of the affairs of peculiars. --Blackstone. {Dean of peculiars}. See under {Dean}, 1.
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Probate \Pro"bate\, a. Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record. {Probate Court}, [or] {Court of Probate}, a court for the probate of wills. {Probate duty}, a government tax on property passing by will. [Eng.]
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6. That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race. {Court of record} (pron. r[?]*k[?]rd" in Eng.), a court whose acts and judicial proceedings are written on parchment or in books for a perpetual memorial. {Debt of record}, a debt which appears to be due by the evidence of a court of record, as upon a judgment or a cognizance. {Trial by record}, a trial which is had when a matter of record is pleaded, and the opposite party pleads that there is no such record. In this case the trial is by inspection of the record itself, no other evidence being admissible. --Blackstone. {To beat}, [or] {break}, {the record} (Sporting), to surpass any performance of like kind as authoritatively recorded; as, to break the record in a walking match.
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Regard \Re*gard"\, n. [F. regard See {Regard}, v. t.] 1. A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze. But her, with stern regard, he thus repelled. --Milton. 2. Attention of the mind with a feeling of interest; observation; heed; notice. Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard. --Shak. 3. That view of the mind which springs from perception of value, estimable qualities, or anything that excites admiration; respect; esteem; reverence; affection; as, to have a high regard for a person; -- often in the plural. He has rendered himself worthy of their most favorable regards. --A. Smith. Save the long-sought regards of woman, nothing is sweeter than those marks of childish preference. --Hawthorne. 4. State of being regarded, whether favorably or otherwise; estimation; repute; note; account. A man of meanest regard amongst them, neither having wealth or power. --Spenser. 5. Consideration; thought; reflection; heed. Sad pause and deep regard become the sage. --Shak. 6. Matter for consideration; account; condition. [Obs.] [bd]Reason full of good regard.[b8] --Shak. 7. Respect; relation; reference. Persuade them to pursue and persevere in virtue, with regard to themselves; in justice and goodness with regard to their neighbors; and piefy toward God. --I. Watts. Note: The phrase in regard of was formerly used as equivalent in meaning to on account of, but in modern usage is often improperly substituted for in respect to, or in regard to. --G. P. Marsh. Change was thought necessary in regard of the injury the church did receive by a number of things then in use. --Hooker. In regard of its security, it had a great advantage over the bandboxes. --Dickens. 8. Object of sight; scene; view; aspect. [R.] Throw out our eyes for brave Othello, Even till we make the main and the a[89]rial blue An indistinct regard. --Shak. 9. (O.Eng.Law) Supervision; inspection. {At regard of}, in consideration of; in comparison with. [Obs.] [bd]Bodily penance is but short and little at regard of the pains of hell.[b8] --Chaucer. {Court of regard}, a forest court formerly held in England every third year for the lawing, or expeditation, of dogs, to prevent them from running after deer; -- called also {survey of dogs}. --Blackstone. Syn: Respect; consideration; notice; observance; heed; care; concern; estimation; esteem; attachment; reverence.
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Request \Re*quest"\ (r?-kw[b5]st"), n. [OE. requeste, OF. requeste, F. requ[?]te, LL. requesta, for requisita, fr. L. requirere, requisitum, to seek again, ask for. See {Require}, and cf. {Quest}.] 1. The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty. I will marry her, sir, at your request. --Shak. 2. That which is asked for or requested. [bd]He gave them their request.[b8] --Ps. cvi. 15. I will both hear and grant you your requests. --Shak. 3. A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or asked for; demand. Knowledge and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now. --Sir W. Temple. {Court of Requests}. (a) A local tribunal, sometimes called {Court of Consience}, founded by act of Parliament to facilitate the recovery of small debts from any inhabitant or trader in the district defined by the act; -- now mostly abolished. (b) A court of equity for the relief of such persons as addressed the sovereign by supplication; -- now abolished. It was inferior to the Court of Chancery. [Eng.] --Brande & C. Syn: Asking; solicitation; petition; prayer; supplication; entreaty; suit.
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Session \Ses"sion\, n. [L. sessio, fr. sedere, sessum, to sit: cf. F. session. See {Sit}.] 1. The act of sitting, or the state of being seated. [Archaic] So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import. --Hooker. But Viven, gathering somewhat of his mood, . . . Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood. --Tennyson. 2. The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business. It's fit this royal session do proceed. --Shak. 3. Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term. It was resolved that the convocation should meet at the beginning of the next session of Parliament. --Macaulay. Note: Sessions, in some of the States, is particularly used as a title for a court of justices, held for granting licenses to innkeepers, etc., and for laying out highways, and the like; it is also the title of several courts of criminal jurisdiction in England and the United States. {Church session}, the lowest court in the Presbyterian Church, composed of the pastor and a body of elders elected by the members of a particular church, and having the care of matters pertaining to the religious interests of that church, as the admission and dismission of members, discipline, etc. {Court of Session}, the supreme civil court of Scotland. {Quarter sessions}. (Eng.Law) See under {Quarter}. {Sessions of the peace}, sittings held by justices of the peace. [Eng.]
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Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Court \Court\ (k?rt), n. [OF. court, curt, cort, F. co[?]r, LL. cortis, fr. L. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis, chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Gr. [?][?][?][?] inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden, yard, orchard. See {Yard}, and cf. {Cohort}, {Curtain}.] 1. An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. --Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. --Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. --Macaulay. 2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace. Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. This our court, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. --Shak. 3. The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. --Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --Sir. W. Scott. 4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court. The princesses held their court within the fortress. --Macaulay. 5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. --Spenser. I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. --Evelyn. 6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. Most heartily I do beseech the court To give the judgment. --Shak. 7. The session of a judicial assembly. 8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. {Christian court}, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. {Court breeding}, education acquired at court. {Court card}. Same as {Coat card}. {Court circular}, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] --Edwards. {Court day}, a day on which a court sits to administer justice. {Court dress}, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. {Court fool}, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. {Court guide}, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. {Court hand}, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. --Shak. {Court lands} (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. {Court marshal}, one who acts as marshal for a court. {Court party}, a party attached to the court. {Court rolls}, the records of a court. See{Roll}. {Court in banc}, [or] {Court in bank}, The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius. {Court of Arches}, {audience}, etc. See under {Arches}, {Audience}, etc. {Court of Chancery}. See {Chancery}, n. {Court of Common pleas}. (Law) See {Common pleas}, under {Common}. {Court of Equity}. See under {Equity}, and {Chancery}. {Court of Inquiry} (Mil.), a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. {Court of St. James}, the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. {The court of the Lord}, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. {General Court}, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] {To pay one's court}, to seek to gain favor by attentions. [bd]Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his {court} to Tissaphernes.[b8] --Jowett. {To put out of court}, to refuse further judicial hearing.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Court-baron \Court"-bar`on\ (-b?r`?n), n. (Law) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Courtbred \Court"bred`\ (-br?d`), a. Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Courtepy \Cour"te*py\ (k??r"t?-p?), n. [D. kort short + pije a coarse cloth.] A short coat of coarse cloth. [Obs.] Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Court-plaster \Court"-plas`ter\ (k?rt"pl?s`t?r), n. Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Garlic \Gar"lic\, n. [OE. garlek, AS. g[be]rle[a0]c; gar spear, lance + le[a0]c leek. See {Gar}, n., and {Leek}.] 1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Allium} ({A. sativum} is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable. 2. A kind of jig or farce. [Obs.] --Taylor (1630). {Garlic mustard}, a European plant of the Mustard family ({Alliaria officinalis}) which has a strong smell of garlic. {Garlic pear tree}, a tree in Jamaica ({Crat[91]va gynandra}), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Creatable \Creat"able\ (kr?-?"t?-b'l), a. That may be created.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Creative \Cre*a"tive\ (-t?v), a. Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation. [bd]Creative talent.[b8] --W. Irving. The creative force exists in the germ. --Whewell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Creativeness \Crea"tiveness\, n. The quality of being creative.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Credibility \Cred`ibil"ity\ (kr[ecr]d`[icr]b[icr]l"[icr]t[ycr]), n. [Cf. F. cr[82]dibilit[82].] The quality of being credible; credibleness; as, the credibility of facts; the credibility of witnesses.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Credible \Cred"ible\ (kr[ecr]d"[icr]b'l), a. [L. credibilis, fr. credere. See {Creed}.] Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entitled to confidence; trustworthy. Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. --Hooker. A very diligent and observing person, and likewise very sober and credible. --Dampier.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Credibleness \Cred"ibleness\, n. The quality or state of being credible; worthiness of belief; credibility. [R.] --Boyle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Credibly \Cred"i*bly\, adv. In a manner inducing belief; as, I have been credibly informed of the event.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crotaphite \Crot"a*phite\ (kr?t"?-f?t), n. [Gr. [?][?][?][?] the side of the forehead.] (Anat.) The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crotaphitic \Crot`a*phit"ic\ (kr?t`?-f?t"?k), n. (Anat.) Pertaining to the temple; temporal.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Ani \[d8]A"ni\or d8Ano \[d8]A"no\, n. [Native name.] (Zo[94]l.) A black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida ({Crotophaga ani}), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for communistic nesting.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Curative \Cur"a*tive\ (k?r"?-t?v), a. [Cf. F. curatif. See {Cure}, v. t.] Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure. --Arbuthnot.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Katydid \Ka"ty*did`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect ({Cyrtophyllus concavus}) of the family {Locustid[91]}, common in the United States. The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did, whence the name.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Cardiff, AL (town, FIPS 12040) Location: 33.64613 N, 86.92896 W Population (1990): 72 (35 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Cardiff By The S, CA Zip code(s): 92007
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Cardville, ME Zip code(s): 04418
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Cherrywood Village, KY (city, FIPS 14590) Location: 38.26140 N, 85.65475 W Population (1990): 340 (148 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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Cordaville, MA (CDP, FIPS 15340) Location: 42.27184 N, 71.52170 W Population (1990): 1530 (534 housing units) Area: 4.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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Cordova, AK (city, FIPS 17410) Location: 60.54777 N, 145.74760 W Population (1990): 2110 (883 housing units) Area: 12.0 sq km (land), 5.3 sq km (water) Cordova, AL (city, FIPS 17368) Location: 33.76065 N, 87.19276 W Population (1990): 2623 (1175 housing units) Area: 15.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 35550 Cordova, IL (village, FIPS 16366) Location: 41.67804 N, 90.32202 W Population (1990): 638 (247 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61242 Cordova, MD Zip code(s): 21625 Cordova, NE (village, FIPS 10495) Location: 40.71639 N, 97.35085 W Population (1990): 147 (69 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68330 Cordova, SC (town, FIPS 16855) Location: 33.43561 N, 80.92004 W Population (1990): 135 (50 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 29039 Cordova, TN Zip code(s): 38018
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Cardbox for Windows A database handling program, especially useful for scholars and librarians. [Details? Features? Developer? URL?] (1997-05-14)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Cardbus The 32-bit version of the {PCMCIA} (PC Card) {bus}. [Spec?] (1996-08-20)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Certificate Authority (CA or "Trusted Third Party") An entity (typically a company) that issues {digital certificates} to other entities (organisations or individuals) to allow them to prove their identity to others. A Certificate Authority might be an external company such as {VeriSign} that offers digital certificate services or they might be an internal organisation such as a corporate {MIS} department. The Certificate Authority's chief function is to verify the identity of entities and issue digital certificates attesting to that identity. The process uses {public key cryptography} to create a "network of trust". If I want to prove my identity to you, I ask a CA (who you trust to have verified my identity) to encrypt a {hash} of my signed key with their {private key}. Then you can use the CA's {public key} to decrypt the hash and compare it with a hash you calculate yourself. Hashes are used to decrease the amount of data that needs to be transmitted. The hash function must be {cryptographically strong}, e.g. {MD5}. {(http://home.netscape.com/comprod/server_central/support/faq/certificate_faq.html#11)}. (1998-03-30)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
curried function A {function} of N {arguments} that is considered as a function of one argument which returns another function of N-1 arguments. E.g. in {Haskell} we can define: average :: Int -> (Int -> Int) (The parentheses are optional). A {partial application} of average, to one Int, e.g. (average 4), returns a function of type (Int -> Int) which averages its argument with 4. In uncurried languages a function must always be applied to all its arguments but a {partial application} can be represented using a {lambda abstraction}: \ x -> average(4,x) Currying is necessary if {full laziness} is to be applied to functional sub-expressions. It was named after the logician {Haskell Curry} but the 19th-century logician, {Gottlob Frege} was the first to propose it and it was first referred to in ["Uber die Bausteine der mathematischen Logik", M. Schoenfinkel, Mathematische Annalen. Vol 92 (1924)]. {David Turner} said he got the term from {Christopher Strachey} who invented the term "currying" and used it in his lecture notes on programming languages written circa 1967. Strachey also remarked that it ought really to be called "Schoenfinkeling". Stefan Kahrs reported hearing somebody in Germany trying to introduce "scho"nen" for currying and "finkeln" for "uncurrying". The verb "scho"nen" means "to beautify"; "finkeln" isn't a German word, but it suggests "to fiddle". ["Some philosophical aspects of combinatory logic", H. B. Curry, The Kleene Symposium, Eds. J. Barwise, J. Keisler, K. Kunen, North Holland, 1980, pp. 85-101] (2002-07-24)