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An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.

Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.

To yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion.

Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.

To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.

A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off. [Colloq. U. S.]

enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

The jurisdiction or office of an alcalde; also, the building or chamber in which he conducts the business of his office.

One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may, in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and administrative functions.

The office of an alderman.

The office or rank of an alderman. [R.] B. Jonson.

The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan.

Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] [Eng.]

Serving to drive off fever; antifebrile. -- n.

An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable. Prescott.

as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument Whewell.

Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered. Shipley.

The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon.

The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.