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Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction. No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop]. Hooker. Catholicism . . . must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation. Bp. Pearson.

The workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy.

The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy. [Written also smiddy.] Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands. Lonfellow.

Quite new; brand-new; fire-new. "A span-new archbishop's chair." Fuller.

Like a spine in shape; slender. "Spiny grasshoppers sit chirping." Chapman.

ical court, or a court having jurisdiction in ecclesiastical affairs; a court held by a bishop or other ecclesiastic.

c, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities. During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. Blackstone.

The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business. [U. S.]

ht an asylum in Geneva, where they found a state without a king, and a church without a bishop. R. Choate.

e of steel; consisting of steel. "The steely point of Clifford's lance." Shak. Around his shop the steely sparkles flew. Gay.

An anvil; also, a smith shop. See Stithy. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A smith's shop; a smithy; a smithery; a forge. "As foul as Vulcan's stithy." Shak.

laid up so as to form a stock, or hoard. -- Stock in trade, the goods kept for sale by a shopkeeper; the fittings and appliances of a workman. Simmonds. -- Stock list, a list of stocks, or shares, dealt in, of transactions, and of prices. -- Stock lock, a lock inclosed in a wooden case and attached to the face of a…

broidery and jewels, worn on the left shoulder of deacons, and across both shoulders of bishops and priests, pendent on each side nearly to the ground. At Mass, it is worn crossed on the breast by priests. It is used in various sacred functions. Groom of the stole, the first lord of the bedchamber in the royal househol…

A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. J. P. Peters.

Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop. [U.S. & British Colonies]

One who keeps a "store;" a shopkeeper. See 1st Store, 3. [U. S.]

as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts.

beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond. All the bishops subscribed the sentence. Milman.

e suburbs; -- applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of Rome subject to the pope as bishop of Rome. The pope having stretched his authority beyond the bounds of his suburbicarian precincts. Barrow.