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s of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.

arties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster. Shak.

Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27.

let; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.

Free from the power of love. "In maiden meditation, fancy- free." Shak.

airs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish. As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault. Shak.

A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean.

To invest with a fee or feud; to give or grant a corporeal hereditament to; to enfeoff.

The instrument or deed by which corporeal hereditaments are conveyed. [Obs. in the U.S., Rare in Eng.]

ds or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.

coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.

filio, inserted by the third council of Toledo (a. d. 589) in the clause qui ex Patre procedit (who proceedeth from the Father) of the Niceno- Constantinopolitan Creed (a. d. 381), which makes a creed state that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the Father. Hence, the doctrine itself (not admitted by…

a way unsuitable for the use of others, and then threatening not to take them except on credit. [R.] Goldsmith.

To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable

A wave. [Obs.] "The Mediterranean flote." Shak.

One who foments; one who encourages or instigates; as, a fomenter of sedition.

he accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition.

Foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation. His calm, deliberate forecast better fitted him for the council than the camp. Prescott.

action of a debt due from him to the plaintiff; an attachment of the goods, effects, or credits of a debtor in the hands of a third person; -- called in some States trustee, in others factorizing, and in others garnishee process. Kent. Tomlins. Cowell. -- Foreign bill, a bill drawn in one country, and payable in anoth…

Intended beforehand; premeditated. [Obs.] Spenser.