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e entrance or staircase of the cabin. -- Companion ladder (Naut.), the ladder by which officers ascend to, or descend from, the quarter-deck. Totten. -- Companion way (Naut.), a staircase leading to the cabin. -- Knights companions, in certain honorary orders, the members of the lowest grades as distinguished from k…

The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company.

rmal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed (in the latter case, generally under oath); an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity.

Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete. This course of vanity almost complete. Prior.

A report of an officer or agent.

A controller; a public officer whose duty it is to examine certify accounts.

One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.

The office or lodge of a concierge or janitor.

subjugation; victory. In joys of conquest he resigns his breath. Addison. Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country. Prescott.

To set apart to a sacred office; as, to consecrate a bishop. Thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons. Ex. xxix. 9.

An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff.

A high officer in the monarhical establishments of the Middle Ages.

The office or functions of a constable.

r. Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine. Wordsworth. Constituted authorities, the officers of government, collectively, as of a nation, city, town, etc. Bartlett.

A muscle which contracts or closes an orifice, or which compresses an organ; a sphincter.

ing) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice.

That which is constructed or formed; an edifice; a fabric. [Obs.]

ing jurisdiction in several places or over several consula. -- Vice consul, a consular officer holding the place of a consul during the consul's absence or after he has been relieved.

nsul; performing the duties of a consul; as, consular power; consular dignity; consular officers.

The office of a consul. Addison.