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A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation. Burrill.

A customhouse.

e particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse.

The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering; as, his entrance of the arrival was made the same day.

The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n.,

A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.

A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes. And eke an officer out for to ride, To see her granges and her bernes wide. Chaucer. Nor burnt the grange, nor bussed the milking maid. Tennyson.

charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation. [China] Hoppo men, Chinese customhouse officers.

A customhouse officer who searches ships for unentered goods. [Eng.] [Written also jerguer.]

passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage. -- Landing waiter, a customhouse officer who oversees the landing of goods, etc., from vessels; a landwaiter.

An instrument, devised by Professor Helmholtz, for testing the color perception of the eye, or for comparing different lights, as to their constituent color or their relative whiteness.

escription by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse. Bouvier.

twelve very prominent rings. It is one of the species which produce bezoar. [Written also mhorr.]

A single farmhouse; a steading. [Prov.Eng. & Scot.] Grose. Jamieson.

An instrument devised by Helmholtz for measuring the size of a reflected image on the convex surface of the cornea and lens of the eye, by which their curvature can be ascertained.

ch a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor. -- Port of entry, a harbor where a customhouse is established for the legal entry of merchandise. -- Port toll (Law), a payment made for the privilege of bringing goods into port. -- Port warden, the officer in charge of a port; a harbor master.

A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake.

Arm scye, a cutter's term for the armhole or part of the armhole of the waist of a garnment. [Cant]

amps; also, a machine for stamping ore. -- Stamp note, a stamped certificate from a customhouse officer, which allows goods to be received by the captain of a ship as freight. [Eng.] -- Stamp office, an office for the issue of stamps and the reception of stamp duties.

A farmhouse and offices. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]