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ank of brigadier general and is the chief officer in the quartermaster's department; in England, an officer of high rank stationed at the War Office having similar duties; also, a staff officer, usually a general officer, accompanying each complete army in the field. -- Quartermaster sergeant. See Sergeant.…

A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots. In faith, and by the heaven's quene. Chaucer.

g, scarlet queening, and early queening. An apple called the queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.

ing in the form of a raceme; as, (Bot.) racemose berries or flowers; (Anat.) the racemose glands, in which the ducts are branched and clustered like a raceme. Gray.

rchment in which the Scottish nobility and gentry subscribed allegiance to Edward I. of England, A. D. 1296. [Also written ragman-roll.]

The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.

A cyst formed under the tongue by obstruction of the duct of the submaxillary gland.

One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.

sed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.

ine Articles and the Declaration of Assent, -- required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.

s of an action at law, formerly in frequent use, but now abolished or obsolete, both in England and America. Burrill. Warren.

One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist. All that are recusants of holy rites. Holyday.

rd of the pains of hell." Chaucer. -- Court of regard, a forest court formerly held in England every third year for the lawing, or expeditation, of dogs, to prevent them from running after deer; -- called also survey of dogs. Blackstone.

State of remaining; stay. [Obs.] Which often, since my here remain in England, I 've seen him do. Shak.

A term applied in England to several officers, having various functions, their duty originally being to bring certain matters to the attention of the proper persons at the proper time. "The remembrancer of the lord treasurer in the exchequer." Bacon.

Med.), a concretion formed in the excretory passages of the kidney. -- Renal capsules or glands, the suprarenal capsules. See under Capsule. -- Renal casts, Renal colic. (Med.) See under Cast, and Colic.

ith attention; hence, careful; wary; considerate. [Obs.] If you look upon the church of England with a respective eye, you can not . . . refuse this charge. A

rplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities. [Eng.]

A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.

ution passed, in 1870, by both houses of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, England. Both English and American revisers were employed on the work. It was first published in a complete form in 1885, and is a revised form of the Authorized Version. See Authorized Version, under Authorized.…