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United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.

An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.

; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing. the felicities of her wonderful reign. Atterbury.

The people called Amazons. [Obs.] "[The reign of] feminye." Chaucer.

who maintained that there would be a fifth universal monarchy, during which Christ would reign on earth a thousand years. -- Fifth wheel, a horizontal wheel or segment above the fore axle of a carriage and beneath the body, forming an extended support to prevent careening.

Freedom from foreign matter or alloy; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor. The fineness of the gold, and chargeful fashion. Shak.

In Turkey and some other Oriental countries, a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign; a royal order or grant; -- generally given for special objects, as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance. [Written also firmaun.]

or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

Foreign. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own. Burrill.

Foreign; alien. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

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…

Strange; foreign. [Old Eng. & Scot.] Chaucer.

place without paying one's debts. -- French pie Etym: [French (here used in sense of "foreign") + pie a magpie (in allusion to its black and white color)] (Zoöl.), the European great spotted woodpecker (Dryobstes major); -- called also wood pie. -- French polish. (a) A preparation for the surface of woodwork, consis…

sting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.

Of or relating to the reigns of the four Georges, kings of Great Britan; as, the Georgian era.

A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation. [Obs.]

The Supreme Being; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the universe; Jehovah. God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John iv. 24.

per. -- Gold stick, the colonel of a regiment of English lifeguards, who attends his sovereign on state occasions; -- so called from the gilt rod presented to him by the sovereign when he receives his commission as colonel of the regiment. [Eng.] -- Gold thread. (a) A thread formed by twisting flatted gold over a thre…

ter grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. Hing. -- Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoev…