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itting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury. Blackstone. Wharton. Encyc. Brit.

st, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge. While I descend . . . to my associate powers. Milton.

Any step wrongly innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge.

ient to entitle to credit. The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges. Burke.

termination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant. To review The wrongful sentence, and award a new. Dryden.

One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge.

The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied. Judges x. 6.

The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.

iff's action absolutely and entirely. -- Trial at bar (Eng. Law), a trial before all the judges of one the superior courts of Westminster, or before a quorum representing the full court.

Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of the barmote. [Eng.]

ns, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port. -- Baron of the exchequer, the judges of the Court of Exchequer, one of the three ancient courts of England, now abolished.

The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment. Wharton.

ord. Bacon. She was . . . found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge. Latimer.

peated blaows; to knock vigorously or loudly. The men of the city . . . beat at the door. Judges. xix. 22.

To adjudge; to assign by authority. The second was to Triamond behight. Spenser.

The seat where judges sit in court. To pluck down justice from your awful bench. Shak.

A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant.

At or during pleasure. For our English judges there never was . . . any bene placito as their tenure. F. Harrison.

two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations.

ied, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge thyself on all those who thus continually blaspheme thy great and all-glorious name Dr. W. Beveridge.