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Silurian formations of Great Britain; -- so named from Llandeilo in Southern Wales. See Chart of Geology.

Dull; stupid. Shak. A rabble of loggerheaded physicians. Urquhart.

ng below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.

us substance, consisting of a hydrous basic carbonate of magnesium, and used as a mild cathartic.

instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals. Wharton.

s, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. This writ is now obsolete. Wharton.

s a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party. Bouvier. Wharton.

een others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty. Wharton. Cap of maintenance. See under Cap.

ischief (Law), malicious injury to the property of another; -- an offense at common law. Wharton. -- Malicious prosecution or arrest (Law), a wanton prosecution or arrest, by regular process in a civil or criminal proceeding, without probable cause. Bouvier.

One who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory. Wharton.

, and of the records of the chancery, and acts as assistant judge of the court. Bouvier. Wharton. -- Past master, one who has held the office of master in a lodge of Freemasons or in a society similarly organized. -- The old masters, distinguished painters who preceded modern painters; especially, the celebrated pain…

idence (Law), evidence which conduces to the proof or disproof of a relevant hypothesis. Wharton.

ed by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology.

pecies of Melilotus, a genus of leguminous herbs having a vanillalike odor; sweet clover; hart's clover. The blue melilot (Melilotus cærulea) is used in Switzerland to give color and flavor to sapsago cheese.

or up to 70 or 80 degrees; tabulated numbers representing these parts used in projecting charts, and in solving cases in Mercator's sailing.

g, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology.

Fortune telling by physiognomy. [R.] Urquhart.

lso, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript. T. Wharton.

The Miocene period. See Chart of Geology.

A crime less than a felony. Wharton.