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The quality or state of being pertinent; justness of relation to the subject or matter in hand; fitness; appositeness; relevancy; suitableness. The fitness and pertinency of the apostle's discourse. Bentley.

The diseased condition of a vine caused by the insect just described.

Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.

A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it. Shak.

A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin.

An accusation or protest on account of an injury. There are three just grounds of war with Spain: one of plaint, two upon defense. Bacon.

re upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.

A place laid out after a model. [Obs.] lf the platform just reflects the order. Pope.

position in which characters are represented by dialogue and action. A play ought to be a just image of human nature. Dryden.

d demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea…

government or those who administer it; to conspire. Shak. The wicked plotteth against the just. Ps. xxxvii. 12.

An adjustable staff formerly attached to the plow beam to determine the depth of the furrow. Piers Plowman.

To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall.

To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink. Pluming her wings among the breezy bowers. W. Irving.

A small stick or rod of steel, formerly used in adjusting the plaits of ruffs. Shak.

n cases of police, as levying taxes, etc.; -- so called in Louisiana. Bouvier. -- Police justice, or Police magistrate, a judge of a police court. -- Police offenses (Law), minor offenses against the order of the community, of which a police court may have final jurisdiction. -- Police station, the headquarters of t…

officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered.

To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book. I am yours, and all that I possess. Shak.

an objectionable way; officious; fussy and positive; meddlesome. "Pragmatical officers of justice." Sir W. Scott. The fellow grew so pragmatical that he took upon him the government of my whole family. Arbuthnot.

re determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases. Wharton.