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A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.

A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties. Swift.

Stockfish; -- formerly so called in customhouses.

connects all the tones of a piece, we may, with Fétis, term the principle of tonality. Helmholtz.

A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.

The theory, advanced by Thomson (Lord Kelvin) on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid. Various properties of such atoms (vortex atoms) can be mathe…

To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.

The act of placing goods in a warehouse, or in a customhouse store. Warehousing system, an arrangement for lodging imported articles in the customhouse stores, without payment of duties until they are taken out for home consumption. If reëxported, they are not charged with a duty. See Bonded warehouse, under Bonded, a.…

[Obs.] Shak. Bench warrant. (Law) See in the Vocabulary. -- Dock warrant (Com.), a customhouse license or authority. -- General warrant. (Law) See under General. -- Land warrant. See under Land. -- Search warrant. (Law) See under Search, n. -- Warrant of attorney (Law), written authority given by one person to an…

(a) The one-horned, or Indian, rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Indicus). See Rhinoceros. (b) The umhofo. -- White ribbon, the distinctive badge of certain organizations for the promotion of temperance or of moral purity; as, the White-ribbon Army. -- White rope (Naut.), untarred hemp rope. -- White rot. (Bot.) (a) Either of…

d or is on the verge of decomposition; loosely, an olive defective because of bruises, wormholes, or the like.