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Servile attention; sycophancy. [Obs.] Salads and flesh, such as their haste could get, Served with observance. Chapman. This is not atheism, But court observance. Beau. & Fl.

A privilege granted by the sovereign authority, as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.

That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lam. iii. 45.

ion from the olive, and having a bitter-sweet taste and acid proporties. [Written also olivile.] Gregory.

A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit. Buyer's option, an option allowed to one who contracts to buy stocks at a certain future date and at a certain price, to demand the delivery of the stock (giving one day's notice) at any previo…

The privilege of trying such a thief. Burrill.

ous. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous crimes." Shak. "Outrageous panegyric." Dryden.

f or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges. Count palatine, County palatine. See under Count, and County. -- Palatine hill, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by the palace of the Cæsars. See Palace.

Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Cowper. The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. Byron.

A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

g.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen. The king began to pare a little the privilege of clergy. Bacon.

Servile imitation or repetition. [R.] Coleridge. "The supine parrotry." Fitzed. Hall.

herd's crook, borne as an official emblem by a bishop, abbot, abbess, or other prelate privileged to carry it. See Crook, and Crosier. -- Pastoral Theology, that part of theology which treats of the duties of pastors.

Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.

One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent. Bacon.

the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility.

One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.

The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters. Blackstone.

ng pleaded; capable of being alleged in proof, defense, or vindication; as, a right or privilege pleadable at law. Dryden.

An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. [Obs.] Shak.