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The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.

Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action. [R.] "Basilar instincts." H. W. Beecher.

An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that

An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.

Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement. I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 2 Cor. xi. 5.

Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality. "One degree below kings." Addison.

To fall off from the wind; to edge away to leeward; -- said only of inferior craft.

Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.

An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court. [Obs.]

t. [Obs.] So insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors. Fuller. Touch not the cat but a glove. Motto of the Mackintoshes.

Caballine aloes. Caballine aloes, an inferior and impure kind of aloes formerly used in veterinary practice; -- called also horse aloes. -- Caballine spring, the fountain of Hippocrene, on Mount Helicon; - - fabled to have been formed by a stroke from the foot of the winged horse Pegasus.

A species of inferior carpet imported from the Levant. McElrath.

An inferior magistrate or judge among the Mohammedans, usually the judge of a town or village.

west subdivision of the rocks of the Silurian or Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology.

Shorts or inferior flour. [Canadian]

ience, submission to the canons of a canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior cleargy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their supriors. -- Canonical punishments, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. -- Canonical sins (Anc. Church.), those…

An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewerly is made.

To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article. [Obs.] You card your beer, if you guests being to be drunk. -- half small, half strong. Greene.

rt of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts.

Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.