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A court of justice.

Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable.

a, a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house to administer justice between the king's domestic servants. Blackstone.

registers the highest degree of temperature attained in a given time, or since its last adjustment.

of his health ! Spenser. For what he [the king] may do is of two kinds; what he may do as just, and what he may do as possible. Bacon. For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: "It might have been." Whittier.

multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.

intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean. The just medium . . . lies between pride and abjection. L'Estrange.

Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy. Just as the melancholic eye Sees fleets and armies in the sky. Prior.

Memory; remembrance. [Obs.] Precious is the memorial of the just. Evelyn.

story, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory. The memory of the just is blessed. Prov. x. 7. That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth. Shak. The Nonconformists . . . have, as a body, always venerated her [Elizabeth's] memory. Macaulay.

to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency. Examples of justice must be made for terror to some; examples of mercy for comfort to others. Bacon.

, a thermometer for recording the lowest temperature since its last adjustment.

An officer of justice. [Obs.] I cry out the on the ministres, quod he, That shoulde keep and rule this cité. Chaucer.

It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.

Unjustly gotten. Spenser.

To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.

A wrong or unjust judgment.

an angle of 45º, for striking lines on stuff to be mitered; also, a square with an arm adjustable to any angle. -- Miter wheels, a pair of bevel gears, of equal diameter, adapted for working together, usually with their axes at right angles.

A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison. Burrill.

ce of a deceased person a month after death. Strype. -- Calendar months, the months as adjusted in the common or Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November, containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February, which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29. -- Lunar month, the period of one revol…