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One who forgess with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. Piers Plowman. Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword. Tate.

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.

the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety. Public sobriety is a relative duty. Blackstone.

theoretical writers allege that there was a time when there was no such thing as society. Blackstone.

s. During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. Blackstone.

ncumbent in taking the fruits of his benefice without right, but under a pretended title. Blackstone.

esent blaze. Waller. The making and selling of fireworks, and squibs . . . is punishable. Blackstone.

anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc.

, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record. Blackstone.

a nation. Municipal law is a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. Blackstone. The Puritans in the reign of Mary, driven from their homes, sought an asylum in Geneva, where they found a state without a king, and a church without a bishop. R. Choate.

air. [Eng.] Cf. 3d Mop, 2. Halliwell. Statute book, a record of laws or legislative acts. Blackstone. -- Statute cap, a kind of woolen cap; -- so called because enjoined to be worn by a statute, dated in 1571, in behalf of the trade of cappers. [Obs.] Halliwell. -- Statute fair. See Statute, n., 3, above. -- Statute…

Stock; race; family. Blackstone.

One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wieds the sledge.

The widow is immediate tenant to the heir, by a kind of subinfeudation, or undertenancy. Blackstone.

. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science makes progress in any subject-matter, poetry recedes from it. J. H. Newman.

orning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury. Blackstone.

their successors, vests an absolute property in them so lond as the corporation subsists. Blackstone.

ful title, but remains, after his right has expired, without positive leave of the owner. Blackstone. -- On sufferance, by mere toleration; as, to remain in a house on sufferance.

ents of justice, are distinguished into three kinds -- actions personal, real, and mixed. Blackstone.

end the powers of an officer in certain cases, or to stay proceedings under another writ. Blackstone.