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intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke.

To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.

part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.

Divinely sovereign or supreme. [R.] He [Jesus] is the thearchic Intelligence. Milman.

Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.

unting (Emberiza militaria). [Prov. Eng.] -- Thistle crown, a gold coin of England of the reign of James I., worth four shillings. -- Thistle finch (Zoöl.), the goldfinch; -- so called from its fondness for thistle seeds. [Prov. Eng.] -- Thistle funnel, a funnel having a bulging body and flaring mouth.…

the site of obstruction; -- distinguished from embolism, which is produced by a clot or foreign body brought from a distance. -- Throm*bot"ic, a.

Hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the one who occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign authority; an exalted or dignified personage. Only in the throne will I be greater than thou. Gen. xli. 40. To mold a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne. Tennyson.

To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter. A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors. I. Watts.

To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged…

class, or at the top of the school. And wears upon hisbaby brow the round And top of sovereignty. Shak.

s highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourly trample on their sovereign's head. Shak.

A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.

ying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.

Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Foreign. [Obs.] Holinshed.

nvolving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless. Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak. The treacherous smile, a mask for secret hate. Cowper.

A sovereign remedy; a cure. [Obs.] Christ which is to every harm treacle. Chaucer .

te to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery. The treason of the murthering in the bed. Chaucer.

easury, the board to which is intrusted the management of all matters relating to the sovereign's civil list or other revenues. [Eng.] Brande & C. -- Treasury bench, the first row of seats on the right hand of the Speaker in the House of Commons; -- so called because occupied by the first lord of the treasury and chie…