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ree seldom found. Rare work, all filled with terror and delight. Cowley. Above the rest I judge one beauty rare. Dryden.

To learn by reading. I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence. Swift.

To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value. Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Rom. iv. 9. Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. Hawthorne.

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

oughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court.

er damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant. Recover arms (Mil. Drill), a command whereby the piece is brought from the…

The act of refusing a judge or challenging that he shall not try the cause, on account of his supposed partiality. Blackstone.

To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby.

A disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to have dassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ which lay in such a case. Blackstone.

One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.

peeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers. Of our tales judge and reportour. Chaucer.

To exhibit to another mind in language; to show; to give one's own impressions and judgement of; to bring before the mind; to set forth; sometimes, to give an account of; to describe. He represented Rizzio's credit with the queen to be the chief and only obstacle to his success in that demand. Robertson. This bank is t…

One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x. 34.

ything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security. And the land had rest fourscore years. Judges iii. 30.

Reproach; reviling. [Obs.] The gracious Judge, without revile, replied. Milton.

One of the three judges of the internal regions; figuratively, a strictly just judge.

God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.

In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously.

The act or practice of robbing; theft. Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves. Shak.

The act of putting on a robe. Robing room, a room where official robes are put on, as by judges, etc.