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Slightly withdrawn from view or knowledge; as, a latescent meaning. Sir W. Hamilton.

to the affairs of the sea, such as seamen, ships, shipping, navigation, and the like. Bouvier. -- Mariotte's law. See Boyle's law (above). -- Martial law.See under Martial. -- Military law, a branch of the general municipal law, consisting of rules ordained for the government of the military force of a state in pea…

To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue. Bouvier.

d intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead. -- Deep-sea lead, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Hand lead, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water. -- Krems lead, Kremnitz lead Etym: [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in…

ules of law as distinguished from the rules of equity; as, legal estate; legal assets. Bouvier. Burrill. Legal cap. See under Cap. -- Legal tender. (a) The act of tendering in the performance of a contract or satisfaction of a claim that which the law prescribes or permits, and at such time and place as the law prescr…

Fit to be levied; capable of being assessed and collected; as, sums leviable by course of law. Bacon.

That which is levied, as an army, force, tribute, etc. " The Irish levies." Macaulay.

t clerks their little wisdom show To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. Sit. J. Davies.

To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.

entire county to any; much less did he grant . . . any extraordinary liberties. Sir J. Davies.

isappearance of either pole. (c) Diurnal or parallactic libration, that which brings into view on the upper limb, at rising and setting, some parts not in the average visible hemisphere.

Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity. The duke yet would have dark deeds darkly answered; he would never bring them to light. Shak.

ense less common than enlighten.] Lighten my spirit with one clear heavenly ray. Sir J. Davies.

Like, a. [Colloq.] He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden. Walpole. To like of, to be pleased with. [Obs.] Massinger.

A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit.

A restriction of power; as, a constitutional limitation. Wharton. Bouvier. To know one's own limitations, to know the reach and limits of one's abilities. A. R. Wallace.

Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited. Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called on to contribute beyond the amount of his shares. [Eng.] Mozley & W.…

Having no limits; unbounded; boundless. Davies (Wit's Pilgr.).

In a linguistic manner; from the point of view of a linguist. Tylor.

ons. Literal contract (Law), contract of which the whole evidence is given in writing. Bouvier. -- Literal equation (Math.), an equation in which known quantities are expressed either wholly or in part by means of letters; -- distinguished from a numerical equation.