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A league; a confederacy; a federal or confederated government. Burke.

ing on a specie basis, but deriving its purchasing power from the declaratory fiat of the government issuing it.

Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue. The fiscal arreangements of government. A. Hamilton.

Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." Milton.

Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.

se; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family. There they shall found Their government, and their great senate choose. Milton.

Form; shape; proportion; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as, a frameof government. She that hath a heart of that fine frame To pay this debt of love but to a brother. Shak. Put your discourse into some frame. Shak.

A particular privilege conferred by grant from a sovereign or a government, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote. Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franch…

Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.

; habitual; persistent. He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government. Swift.

A political party in France, during the minority of Louis XIV., who opposed the government, and made war upon the court party.

stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds.

row aisle across the house, below which sit those who do not vote steadly either with the government or with the opposition.

printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.

One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal.

Government by old men. [R.] Gladstone.

apestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667.

Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.

An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. Walton.

er of property by deed or writing; especially, au appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.