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An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon. [Eng.] Crabb.

ath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.

The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship. Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till this funereal web my labors end. Pope.

To give notice to, or command to appear, as in court; to cite by authority; as, to summon witnesses.

authority; specifically, a petty officer formerly employed to summon persons to appear in court; an apparitor.

A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like.

as, a rival supplants another in the favor of a mistress or a prince. Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend. Bp. Fell.

e, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Prov. xi. 15.

scription of any portion of country, or of a road or line through it. Survey of dogs. See Court of regard, under Regard. -- Trigonometrical survey, a survey of a portion of country by measuring a single base, and connecting it with various points in the tract surveyed by a series of triangles, the angles of which are…

ecution of; to admit as valid; to sanction; to continue; not to dismiss or abate; as, the court sustained the action or suit.

A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. [Written also swanimote, and sweinmote.] Blackstone.

taining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain. De Quincey.

presence of the severeign, formerly granted to certain ladies of high rank at the French court.

th, or as with, a tag or tags. He learned to make long-tagged thread laces. Macaulay. His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with some fawning word. Dryden.

Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. Blount. Blackstone. (b) syntactically sing.

awdry feathers; tawdry colors. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers. Spectator.

assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.

That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff of defendant in a suit; as, taxable costs. -- Tax"a*ble*ness, n. -- Tax"a*bly, adv.

ege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto. Burrill.

"di*ous*ness, n. I see a man's life is a tedious one. Shak. I would not be tedious to the court. Bunyan.