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stoms, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues.

A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak.

Turpitude; vileness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Gall; anger; melancholy. [Obs.] Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell. Spenser.

ed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges.

A censurer or caviler. [Obs.]

time of. For many miles about There 's scarce a bush. Shak. Since, hired for life, thy servile muse sing. prior. To guide the sun's bright chariot for a day. Garth.

The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act. Under pain of foreiture of the said goods. Hakluyt.

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…

The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to free of postage. I have said so much, that, if I had not a frank, I must burn my letter and begin again. Cowper.

The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the same as the American expression civil rights. Abbot.

Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of. He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free of his farm. Dryden.

Privileges; franchises; immunities. Your charter and your caty's freedom. Shak.

A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman. Burrill. Both having been made freemen on the same day. Addison.

A code; a charter; a grant of privileges.

ve, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee. Milton.

royal household, who attended to the furnishing of the king's lodgings and had certain privileges.

od. -- Ground rat. (Zoöl.) See Ground pig (above). -- Ground rent, rent paid for the privilege of building on another man's land. -- Ground robin. (Zoöl.) See Chewink. -- Ground room, a room on the ground floor; a lower room. Tatler. -- Ground sea, the West Indian name for a swell of the ocean, which occurs in cal…

gers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.

A caviler; a wrangler. [Obs.] Baret.