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To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material. An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal. Swift.

laces make the true definition of style. Swift. It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work. I. Disraeli.

Before the judge, or court; not yet decided; under judicial consideration.

place or region; locally higher; as, the supernal orbs; supernal regions. "That supernal judge." Shak.

The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses. [Eng.]

A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. [Written also swanimote, and sweinmote.] Blackstone.

Share; allotment. [Obs.] The persons who are to be judged . . . shall all appear to receive their symbol. Jer. Taylor.

To judge; to censure. [Obs.]

A tablet; a notebook. Put into your tablebook whatever you judge worthly. Dryden.

temper; a fretful temper. Remember with what mild And gracious temper he both heared and judged. Milton. The consequents of a certain ethical temper. J. H. Newman.

es; a condition brought about by mutual compromises or concessions. [Obs.] However, I forejudge not any probable expedient, any temperament that can be found in things of this nature, so disputable on their side. Milton.

sponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death. Theta function (Math.), one of a group of functions used in developing the properties of elliptic functions.…

To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow. Let them marry to whom they think best. Num. xxxvi. 6.

having an eager desire. Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. Judges iv. 19.

s been deciared illegal, and which had recently been declared illegal even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May,

The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.

o play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver. To judge of trilling notes and tripping feet. Dryden.

A baton, or military staff of command. The marshal's truncheon nor the judges robe. Shak.

to, to depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on. They trusted unto the liers in wait. Judges xx. 36.

To decide as umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute. Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies. South.