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tices. South. Many were not easy to be governed, nor like to conform themselves to strict rules. Clarendon.

A settling of an estate or property by specific rules.

give heed; to yield to advice; to follow admonition; to obey. Listen to me, and by me be ruled. Tennyson. To listen after, to take an interest in. [Obs.] Soldiers note forts, armories, and magazines; scholars listen after libraries, disputations, and professors. Fuller.

According to the rules of logic; as, a logical argument or inference; the reasoning is logical. Prior.

One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor. But now I was the lord Of this fair mansion. Shak. Man over men He made not lord. Milton.

Dominion; power; authority. They which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them. Mark x. 42.

and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphæa Lotus and N. cærulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.

ivil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it. "All Christian rulers and magistrates." Book of Com. Prayer. Of magistrates some also are supreme, in whom the sovereign power of the state resides; others are subordinate. Blackstone.

Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.

harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious. A malignant and a turbaned Turk. Shak.

The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results. [Written also malepractice.]

to enforce the laws. It is distinguished from military law, the latter being the code of rules for the regulation of the army and navy alone, either in peace or in war.

Dominion; rule; command. [R.] Shak.

The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.

nimal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance.

Generating or containing pus; purulent.

uantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.

e mechanic arts. "These mechanic philosophers." Ray. Mechanic slaves, With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers. Shak.

ution of a problem by any art or contrivance not strictly geometrical, as by means of the ruler and compasses, or other instruments.