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(North Carolina and Tennessee).] "To procession the lands of such persons as desire it." Burrill.

An officer appointed to procession lands. [Local, U. S. (North Carolina and Tennessee).] Burrill.

ation for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it is made. Chitty. Parsons. Burrill.

One who engages or undertakes; a promiser. Burrill.

The party by whom criminal proceedings are instituted. Blackstone. Burrill. Mozley & W.

g's Bench and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master. [Eng.] Wharton. Burrill.

The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument. Burrill.

the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul. J. Burroughs.

The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. Burrill.

. Pug-nose eel (Zoöl.), a deep-water marine eel (Simenchelys parasiticus) which sometimes burrows into the flesh of the halibut.

To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor. Burrill.

ip. (c) (Law) To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court. Burrill. (d) (Med.) To restore, as a dislocated part, to its place. -- To put off. (a) To lay aside; to discard; as, to put off a robe; to put off mortality. "Put off thy shoes from off thy feet." Ex. iii.

e whole plant. Radish fly (Zoöl.), a small two-winged fly (Anthomyia raphani) whose larvæ burrow in radishes. It resembles the onion fly. -- Rat-tailed radish (Bot.), an herb (Raphanus caudatus) having a long, slender pod, which is sometimes eaten. -- Wild radish (Bot.), the jointed charlock.

To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade (Mil.), to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. -- To raise a check, note, bill of exchange, etc., to increase fraudu…

n with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it. Burrill.

hereditaments; freehold interests in landed property; property in houses and land. Kent. Burrill. -- Real presence (R. C. Ch.), the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist, or the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation. In…

w), a process of contempt on the nonappearance of a defendant, -- non abolished. Wharton. Burrill.

The receiving or harboring a felon knowingly, after the commission of a felony. Burrill.

s demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge. Burrill. Bouvier.

aw, formerly in frequent use, but now abolished or obsolete, both in England and America. Burrill. Warren.