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out of the estate of a deceased person, or out of the estate of an insolvent. Wharton. Burrill. -- Privileged witnesses (Law) witnesses who are not obliged to testify as to certain things, as lawyers in relation to their dealings with their clients, and officers of state as to state secrets; also, by statute, clergyme…

eign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other persons chosen by the king or queen. Burrill. -- Privy councilor, a member of the privy council. -- Privy purse, moneys set apart for the personal use of the monarch; also, the title of the person having charge of these moneys. [Eng.] Macaulay. -- Privy seal or signe…

ate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved. Bouvier. Burrill.

mmission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having been suspended. Tomlins. Burrill.

hate of copper. -- Final process (Practice), a writ of execution in an action at law. Burrill. -- In process, in the condition of advance, accomplishment, transaction, or the like; begun, and not completed. -- Jury process (Law), the process by which a jury is summoned in a cause, and by which their attendance is en…

orth Carolina and Tennessee).] "To procession the lands of such persons as desire it." Burrill.

officer appointed to procession lands. [Local, U. S. (North Carolina and Tennessee).] Burrill.

Shining forth; brilliant; effulgent. [Obs.] "Profulgent in preciousness." Chaucer.

Any one of several species of very brilliant birds belonging to Promerops, Epimarchus, and allied genera, closely related to the paradise birds, and mostly native of New Guinea. They have a long curved beak and a long graduated tail.

on for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it is made. Chitty. Parsons. Burrill.

One who engages or undertakes; a promiser. Burrill.

The party by whom criminal proceedings are instituted. Blackstone. Burrill. Mozley & W.

Bench and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master. [Eng.] Wharton. Burrill.

The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument. Burrill.

The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. Burrill.

Ashes of barilla. Ure.

One of the points sometimes drilled as guides for cutting away superfluous stone.

tions. Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, Louder and louder purl the falling rills. Pope.

signifying of a purple or purple-red color. Specif. (Chem.), used in designating certain brilliant purple-red compounds of cobaltic chloride and ammonia, similar to the roseocobaltic compounds. See Cobaltic.

To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party; to act as a prosecutor. Burrill.