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To destroy. [Obs.] Tusser.

Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.

One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.

A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.

Troy weight. Troy weight, the weight which gold and silver, jewels, and the like, are weighed. It was so named from Troyes, in France, where it was first adopted in Europe. The troy ounce is supposed to have been brought from Cairo during the crusades. In this weight the pound is divided into 12 ounces, the ounce into…

See Troy ounce, under Troy weight, above, and under Ounce.

Indestructible.

in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India.

The dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy.

Viceroyalty.

The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.

To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

, an abjuration of heresy. Oath of abjuration, an oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender. Brande & C.

To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. [Archaic] And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.

The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.

y, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives. They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power. Stubbs.

ening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either al…

To impair; to destroy. [Obs.] Hacket.

A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants. [Archaic] Bacon.