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or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. -- Court guide, a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. -- Court hand, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. Shak. -- Court lands (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, f…

as the cure souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assist a rector or vicar Hook. All this the good old man performed alone, He spared no pains, for curate he had none. Dryden.

Pertaining to a dean or deanery. His rectorial as well as decanal residence. Churton. Decanal side, the side of the choir on which the dean's tall is placed. -- Decanal stall, the stall allotted to the dean in the choir, on the right or south side of the chancel. Shipley.

One who directs; a director. Directer plane (Geom.), the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.

The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.

One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower. Absolute lord and disposer of all things. Barrow.

An erector; one who raises or builds.

rnal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula. Incomplete fistula (Med.), a fistula open at one end only.

One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director. [U.S.]

One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator. He will be our guide, even unto death. Ps. xlviii. 14.

A guide; a director. Shak.

One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director. The helms o' the State, who care for you like fathers. Shak.

Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession. -- n.

A French fop or dandy of the time of the Directory; hence, any fop.

A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.

A rector of a German university.

One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater. A skillful manager of the rabble. South.

A director; one who gives a mandate or order. Ayliffe.

Containing a command; preceptive; directory.

d of a household. (f) The male head of a school or college. (g) A male teacher. (h) The director of a number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast. (i) The owner of a docile brute, -- especially a dog or horse. (j) The controller of a familiar spirit or other supernatural being.