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Prelatical. Beaconsfield.

taken to be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.

ntest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist. Beaconsfield. "A rubber of cribbage." Dickens.

A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield.

oceans. I. Taylor. The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven. Beaconsfield.

Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.

life. Any education that confined itself to sedentary pursuits was essentially imperfect. Beaconsfield.

confident; self-reliance. A feeling of self-confidence which supported and sustained him. Beaconsfield.

Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting or deceiving. Beaconsfield.

person; somber reflections. The dinner was silent and somber; happily it was also short. Beaconsfield.

field. Dryden. On a principal table a desk was open and many papers [were] strewn about. Beaconsfield.

o walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner. A man who swaggers about London clubs. Beaconsfield.

Money. [Cant] Beaconsfield. Block tin (Metal.), commercial tin, cast into blocks, and partially refined, but containing small quantities of various impurities, as copper, lead, iron, arsenic, etc.; solid tin as distinguished from tin plate; -- called also bar tin. -- Butter of tin. (Old Chem.) See Fuming liquor of Lib…

London for promoting commerce and navigation, by licensing pilots, ordering and erecting beacons, and the like. -- Trinity Sunday, the Sunday next after Whitsunday; -- so called from the feast held on that day in honor of the Holy Trinity. -- Trinity term. (Law) See the Note under Term, n., 5.

ear very low. Sir W. Scott. The family . . . wore out in the earlier part of the century. Beaconsfield. To wear off, to pass away by degrees; as, the follies of youth wear off with age. -- To wear on, to pass on; as, time wears on. G. Eliot. -- To wear weary, to become weary, as by wear, long occupation, tedious empl…

A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip. Beaconsfield.