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In bibliography, a collection of different works, either by one or several authors. Brande & C.

A corollary. Brande & C.

ts police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation. [France] Brande & C.

torian gate (Rom. Antiq.), that one of the four gates in a camp which lay next the enemy. Brande & C.

ed once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat. Brande & C.

Curved convexly or swelled; as, a pulvinated frieze. Brande & C.

Cider brandy. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. Brande & C.

e plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line. Brande & C.

To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added. To rectify a globe, to adjust it in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.

s of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope. Brande & C.

on. Regalia of a church, the privileges granted to it by kings; sometimes, its patrimony. Brande & C.

crease of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation. Jeffrey. Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin. Dryden.

reign by supplication; -- now abolished. It was inferior to the Court of Chancery. [Eng.] Brande & C.

wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak.

which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person. Brande &C.

eign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth. [Spelt also ryal.] Brande & C.

an public entertainment, consisting of music and dancing, -- held generally on fast eves. Brande & C. There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets. Walpole.

A monstrous bird of Arabian mythology. [Written also rock, and rukh.] Brande & C.

which, with other inscriptions, a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt. Brande & C.