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-- Tower mustard (Bot.), the cruciferous plant Arabis perfoliata. -- Tower of London, a collection of buildings in the eastern part of London, formerly containing a state prison, and now used as an arsenal and repository of various objects of public interest.

of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

short treatise, especially on practical religion. The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared. Swift. Tracts for the Times. See Tractarian.

e occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.

Traditional. The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations. Buckminster.

A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.

A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty. We have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley, and of oil and of honey. Jer. xli. 8.

he same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; one who has charge of collected funds; as, the treasurer of a society or corporation. Lord high treasurer of England, formerly, the third great officer of the crown. His office is now executed by five persons styled the lords commissioners of the treas…

ray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.

Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively. No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey.

Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united. The trio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest. Dickens.

A collection or combination of three of a kind; three united.

The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.

A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude. That which should accompany old age --As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends --I must not look to have. Shak.

The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillæ, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.

The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.

The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.

ly; to palm off. Authors have been trumped upon us. C. Leslie. To trump up, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to fabricate; as, to trump up a charge.

The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively. Weale.

The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.