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The dignity or jurisdiction of a viscount. Sir B. Burke.

A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book.

(Law), the escape of a prisoner by the express consent of the sheriff. -- Voluntary jurisdiction. (Eng. Eccl. Law) See Contentious jurisdiction, under Contentious. -- Voluntary waste. (Law) See Waste, n., 4.

The office or jurisdiction of a warden.

The office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode.

Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction. [Obs. or Scot.]

nd of all composition pretending to literary standing. It employs a classical or academic diction, and a more condensed and sententious style than Mandarin, and differs also in the doubling and arrangement of words.

wise, out of her choses in action, or out of any property of hers which is under the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, for the support of herself and her children. Burrill.

A curse; a malediction. Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice South.

s. Bacon. I am as a wonder unto many. Ps. lxxi. 7. Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

A collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.

Precisely; exactly. (b) For any consideration. -- Seven wonders of the world. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. -- To go to the world, to be married. [Obs.] "Thus goes every one to the world but I . . . ; I may sit in a corner and cry heighho for a husband!" Shak. -- World's end, the end, or most dist…

One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

The jurisdiction of a zamindar; the land possessed by a zamindar. [Written also zemindary, zemindari.]