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eral adjoining presbyteries. The members are the ministers and a ruling elder from each parish.

rmerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration. Synodals are due, of common right, to the bishop only. Gibson.

An Irishman; -- a term used in contempt. Johnson.

To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.

Tigerish; tigrine. [R.]

A countryman or clown; a boorish person.

A parish officer elected annually to preserve good order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath. [Local, U.S.]

The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.

Hence, assuming superiority; proud. The great and flourishing condition of some of the topping sinners of the world. South.

er. The foregoing doctrine affords us also a touchstone for the trial of spirits. South. Irish touchstone (Min.), basalt, the stone which composes the Giant's Causeway.

To be prosperous; to flourish. Where commerce triumphed on the favoring gales. Trumbull.

A native or inhabitant of Troy. Tim jumped like a Trojan from the bed. Finnegan's Wake (Irish song)

Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.

One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strai…

One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.

The practice of bartering goods; exchange; barter; truck. The truckage of perishing coin. Milton.

hey did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish. Bacon.

A slight flourish on a trumpet; a fanfare. [Obs.] Tucket sonance, the sound of the tucket. [Obs.] Let the trumpets sound The tucket sonance and the note to mount. Shak.

ly of a deep, lively yellow or saffron color, and has a slight aromatic smell, and a bitterish, slightly acrid taste. It is used for a dye, a medicine, a condiment, and a chemical test.

rtificate given to one who prosecutes a felon to conviction, exempting him from certain parish and ward offices.