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A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like.

Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicat…

The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.

Liberty; permission; allowance. Thou mayst be no longer steward. Luke xvi. 2.

rly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in. Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt 2 Kings xiv. 10. The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them. Locke. To meddle and make, to intrude one's self into an…

Missile. "The missive weapons fly." Dryden. Letters missive, letters conveying the permission, comand, or advice of a superior authority, as a sovereign. They are addressed and sent to some certain person or persons, and are distinguished from letters patent, which are addressed to the public.

Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass. A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy. Kent.

Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water. Caution in granting passports to Ireland. Clarendon.

Sufferance; permission. [Obs.] Hooker. They stay upon your patience. Shak.

To grant permission; to allow.

The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. Milton.

One to whom a permission or permit is given.

See Permission.

Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.

One who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the work of an author without permission. Pirate perch (Zoöl.), a fresh-water percoid fish of the United States (Aphredoderus Sayanus). It is of a dark olive color, speckled with blackish spots.

Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something. [Obs.] ller.

rs used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to allege facts not in the record.

lly. Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius for traveling into Egypt without his permission. Arbuthnot.

erse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like. Shak.

To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence. I am accursed to rob in that thief's company. Shak.