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A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

Of or pertaining to an ambassador. H. Walpole.

The state, office, or functions of an ambassador.

A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador. Prescott.

Same as Embassage. [Obs. or R.] Luke xiv. 32.

See Embassy, the usual spelling. Helps.

A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. P .A.

er for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.

A very fine sort of Persian silk.

An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.

A stupid fellow. [Obs.] Shak.

Sugar cane, as it

; pl. Bass, and sometimes Basses. Etym: [A corruption of barse.] (Zoöl.)

of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.

A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone.

A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.

Some as Bas-relief.

See Bashaw.

ice. Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget Your piquet parties, and your dear basset. Rowe.

An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.