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oman Catholic, Episcopal, and certain other churches, in some of their ministrations. Surplice fees (Eccl.), fees paid to the English clergy for occasional duties.

Wearing a surplice.

An extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.

To wit; namely; -- often abbreviated to viz.

The act or state of being an accomplice. [R.]

pen-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.

Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.

To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.

License; indulgence. [Obs.] Locke.

The European shad (Clupea alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Clupea sapidissima). See Shad.

A peculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated wheel at each end; -- found in freshwater sponges.

A group of insects which includes the lice.

Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.

nging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.

An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver. See Approvement. Tomlins. Bouvier.

One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices. Blount. Burrill.

A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar. Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.…

ssion of power. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness. Washington.

The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness. Goldsmith.