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Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used opprobriously of acts of judicial interpretation considered as doing this.…

money merchant was so proud of his trust that he went juking and tossing of his head. L' Estrange.

rs, adopted in the Julian calendar, and in use until superseded by the Gregorian year, as established in the reformed or Gregorian calendar.

A chapel; hence, the choir or orchestra of a prince's chapel; now, a musical establishment, usually orchestral. Grove.

To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain. If we lose the field, We can not keep the town. Shak. That I may know what keeps me here with you. Dryden. If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are considering, that wo…

To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox. The dog kenneled in a hollow tree. L'Estrange.

s, made by popes of another kidney. Barrow. Millions in the world of this man's kidney. L'Estrange. Your poets, spendthrifts, and other fools of that kidney, pretend, forsooth, to crack their jokes on prudence. Burns.

To seize with the teeth; to gnaw. "Knabbing crusts." [Obs.] L'Estrange.

A small due, in meal, established by usage, which is paid to the under miller. [Scot.]

To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. [Colloq.] I'll lace your coat for ye. L'Estrange.

An instrument for estimating the purity or richness of milk, as a measuring glass, a specific gravity bulb, or other apparatus.

An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.

The state of being a laird; an estate; landed property. [Scot.] Ramsay.

earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract. Go view the land, even Jericho. Josh. ii. 1. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith.

Having an estate in land. The House of Commons must consist, for the most part, of landed men. Addison.

A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.

A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.

ack is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the "plover's eggs" of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.

The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well. L'Estrange.

milarly classed or considered, in time, place, or order of succession; following all the rest; final; hindmost; farthest; as, the last year of a century; the last man in a line of soldiers; the last page in a book; his last chance. Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of…