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Snobbish. [R.] E. B. Ramsay.

ntain sorrel. (Bot.) See under Mountain. -- Red sorrel. (Bot.) (a) A malvaceous plant (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) whose acid calyxes and capsules are used in the West Indies for making tarts and acid drinks. (b) A troublesome weed (Rumex Acetosella), also called sheep sorrel. -- Salt of sorrel (Chem.), binoxalate of potass…

Quite new; brand-new; fire-new. "A span-new archbishop's chair." Fuller.

stical court, or a court having jurisdiction in ecclesiastical affairs; a court held by a bishop or other ecclesiastic.

tic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities. During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. Blackstone.

A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike probiscis.

Short and thick; suqabbish.

A want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.

h is parasitic upon the stag, as , which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils.

ught an asylum in Geneva, where they found a state without a king, and a church without a bishop. R. Choate.

embroidery and jewels, worn on the left shoulder of deacons, and across both shoulders of bishops and priests, pendent on each side nearly to the ground. At Mass, it is worn crossed on the breast by priests. It is used in various sacred functions. Groom of the stole, the first lord of the bedchamber in the royal househ…

A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. J. P. Peters.

To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.

A place into which rubbish is put. [Written also stowbord.]

A framework of timber covered with boards to support rubbish; also, a framework of boards to protect miners from falling stones. [Prov. Eng.]

e beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond. All the bishops subscribed the sentence. Milman.

the suburbs; -- applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of Rome subject to the pope as bishop of Rome. The pope having stretched his authority beyond the bounds of his suburbicarian precincts. Barrow.

things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology. He was in the succession to an earldom. Macaulay.

Assisting; assistant; as, a suffragan bishop.

The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses. [Eng.]