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rights, to another person; the act of ceding. A cession of the island of New Orleans. Bancroft.

o hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain. To circumscribe royal power. Bancroft.

loset for a secret interview. He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members. Bancroft. He had been closeted with De Quadra. Froude.

formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.

One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft.

smen, with eyes fixed on America, were all the while competing for European alliances. Bancroft.

ure. Addison. He hath heard of our confederacy. Shak. Virginia promoted a confederacy. Bancroft.

Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory. Bancroft.

from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. Bancroft.

The act or result of curtailing or cutting off. Bancroft.

; to rant. Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act. Bancroft.

A goddess. [Obs.] Croft.

another, or to authority; -- with to. The house, deferring to legal right, acquiesced. Bancroft.

to commit. The delegated administration of the law. Locke. Delegated executive power. Bancroft. The power exercised by the legislature is the people's power, delegated by the people to the legislative. J. B. Finch.

tion; deliberating; as, a deliberative body. A consummate work of deliberative wisdom. Bancroft. The court of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown. Hallam.

power and prosperous crime. Walsh. The vices of the nobility had demoralized the army. Bancroft.

o acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow. The falsehood of denying his opinion. Bancroft. Thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved. Keble. To deny one's self, to decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to practice self-denial. Let him deny himself, and take up his cross. Matt. xvi. 24.…

fore the expiration of one's term; to abscond. The soldiers . . . deserted in numbers. Bancroft.

rvice. Such a resignation would have seemed to his superior a desertion or a reproach. Bancroft.

the main body on special service. Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments. Bancroft.