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A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.

To extend or grow at random. Thomson.

A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. Brande & C.

plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line. Brande & C.

An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.

To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added. To rectify a globe, to adjust it in order to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.

of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope. Brande & C.

ryden. To refresh the memory, to quicken or strengthen it, as by a reference, review, memorandum, or suggestion.

n. Regalia of a church, the privileges granted to it by kings; sometimes, its patrimony. Brande & C.

One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract. If thence he 'scappe, into whatever world, Or unknown region. Milton.…

The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.

ich serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of something to be remembered. And on his breast a bloody cross he bore, The dear remembrance of his dying Lord. Spenser. Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake. Shak.

Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61.

rease of his disgraceful stipend are mentioned with becoming reprobation. Jeffrey. Set a brand of reprobation on clipped poetry and false coin. Dryden.

eign by supplication; -- now abolished. It was inferior to the Court of Chancery. [Eng.] Brande & C.

Any grand musical composition, performed in honor of a deceased person.

Resolving, or explaining; as, the Resolute Doctor Durand. [Obs.]

reaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak.

hich does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person. Brande &C.

ign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth. [Spelt also ryal.] Brande & C.