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The station or dignity of an archbishop; archiepiscopacy. Fuller.

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops. Pinkerton.

Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.

A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

A supernatural being supposed to warn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice.

A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.

Same as Bothy. [Scot.]

A namber of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.

iss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of frust. They have cashiered several of their followers. Addison. He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard. Macaulay.

A check drawn by a bank upon its own funds, signed by the cashier.

One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs. [R.] Burke.

See Chivachie. [Obs.]

The principal part; the most valuable portion. The chief of the things which should be utterly destroyed.1. Sam. xv. 21

The presiding judge of the court of exchequer.

cky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare.

The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief Justice of the United States, the presiding judge of the Supreme Court, a…

The office of chief justice. Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes. The Century.

A tribute by the head; a capitation tax. [Written also chevage and chivage.] [Obs.]

First or foremost; chief; principal. [Archaic] "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.