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To grant permission; to allow.

The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave. Milton.

One to whom a permission or permit is given.

See Permission.

-- Petty officer, a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc., corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army.

ios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.

An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas.

Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something. [Obs.] ller.

er showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him.

Full; complete. [Obs.] "Plein remission." Chaucer. -- Plein"ly, adv.

subject should be plenary or full. I. Watts. Plenary indulgence (R. C. Ch.), an entire remission of temporal punishment due to, or canonical penance for, all sins. -- Plenary inspiration. (Theol.) See under Inspiration.

The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed. [Obs.] Jonson.

The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state Police commissioner, a civil officer, usually one of a board, commissioned to regulate and control the appointment, duties, and discipline of the police. -- Police constable, or Police officer, a policeman. -- Police court, a minor court to try persons brought before i…

The emission of semen, or sperm, at other times than in sexual intercourse. Dunglison.

sitive, a. Positiveness, pedantry, and ill manners. Swift. The positiveness of sins of commission lies both in the habitude of the will and in the executed act too; the positiveness of sins of omission is in the habitude of the will only. Norris.

A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript.

name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse.

ts; postal authorities. Postal card, or Post card, a card sold by the government for transmission through the mails, at a lower rate of postage than a sealed letter. The message is written on one side of the card, and the direction on the other. -- Postal money order. See Money order, under Money. -- Postal note, an…

A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.

A stream, or something like a stream; a flood. [Colloq.] "A pour of rain." Miss Ferrier.