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some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court.

The office of a recorder.

To order a second time.

Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.

An order that aims to limit losses by fixing a figure at which purchases shall be sold or sales bought in, as where stock is bought at 100 and the broker is directed to sell if the market price drops to 98.

A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositæ.

A group intermediate in importance between an order and a subclass.

One who uses, or fights with, a sword; a swordsman; a soldier; a cutthroat. [Obs.] Shak.

To countermand an order for. [R.]

Disorderly. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

A speaker. [Obs.] Withlock.

Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possi…

Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of. Monks abdicant of their orders. Whitlock.

Earlier in order; higher in the same page; hence, in a foregoing page. "That was said above." Dryden.

ess, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abstract terms are the names of orders, genera or species of things, in which there is a combination of similar qualities. -- Abstract numbers (Math.), numbers used without application to things, as 6, 8, 10; but when applied to any thing, as 6 feet, 10 men, th…

To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

Belonging to the order of fishes having spinose fins, as the perch. -- n.

An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.

one who accepts an order or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.