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orfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.

To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.

fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.

ntraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't.

A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.

A person of intermediate rank; a commoner.

A rhizopod or moneran. Also used adjectively; as, a myxopod state.

usion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is…

A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer.

One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.

A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff. [Obs.]

ity of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford. Ld. Lytton.

f honor; right to a more honorable place; superior rank; as, barons have precedence of commoners. Which of them [the different desires] has the precedency in determining the will to the next action Locke.

ituting the gentry or lesser nobility. They possessed power of life and death over the commoners, and wore two swords as their distinguishing mark. Their special rights and privileges were abolished with the fall of feudalism in 1871.

A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A summoner; an apparitor; a sompnour. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A summoner. [Obs.]

A summoner. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A summoner. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.