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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 office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant.

A commissioned officer in the army, next below a captain.

Release; remission; ease; relief. [Obs.] "Of penance had a lisse." Chaucer.

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

To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way. He hath lost his fellows. Shak

Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.

ently; a place of lounging. She went with Lady Stock to a bookseller's whose shop lounge. Miss Edgeworth.

Submissive; humble. "Low reverence." Milton.

cting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.

French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. Goldsmith.

to the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter. [U. S.]

Admissible lawfully into the mail. [U.S.]

The person who makes a promissory note.

One who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory. Wharton.

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept. This dream all-powerful Juno; I bear Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear. Dryden.

. This charming widow Beaumont is a nanoeuvrer. We can't well make an English word of it. Miss Edgeworth.

y developed by G. Marconi, an Italian physicist, in which Hertzian waves are used in transmission and a coherer is used as the receiving instrument.

e barometer. See under Barometer. -- Marine corps, a corps formed of the officers, noncommissioned officers, privates, and musicants of marines. -- Marine engine (Mech.), a steam engine for propelling a vessel. -- Marine glue. See under Glue. -- Marine insurance, insurance against the perils of the sea, including a…