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The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. W. Guthrie.

A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church. [Poet.] Such to this British Isle, her Christian fanes. Wordsworth.

end; a fold; a curve. Varying with the flexures of the valley through which it meandered. British Quart. Rev.

. -- Foreign office, that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.

A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat.

A small British fish (Motella argenteola) of the Cod family.

mber. Farrow. Galloper gun, a light gun, supported on a galloper, -- formerly attached to British infantry regiments.

A kind of internal-combustion engine; -- in British countries called usually petrol engine.

aper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the British government, and containing legal and state notices.

Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble. British society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle, or simple. Johnson's Cyc. The studies wherein our noble and gentle youth ought to bestow their time. Milton.

British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.

A strongly fortified town on the south coast of Spain, held by the British since 1704; hence, an impregnable stronghold.

The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; -- called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge.

bove. -- Goose tongue (Bot.), a composite plant (Achillea ptarmica), growing wild in the British islands. -- Sea goose. (Zoöl.) See Phalarope. -- Solan goose. (Zoöl.) See Gannet.

A small British marine fish (Motella tricirrata); -- called also whistler and three-bearded rockling. [Prov. Eng.]

A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred…

s, a grenadier of the guard of Napoleon I. one of the regiment of Grenadier Guards of the British army, etc.

A rubber overshoe. [Local, U. S.] Black gum, Blue gum, British gum, etc. See under Black, Blue, etc. -- Gum Acaroidea, the resinous gum of the Australian grass tree (Xanlhorrhoea). -- Gum animal (Zoöl.), the galago of West Africa; -- so called because it feeds on gums. See Galago. -- Gum animi or animé. See Animé.…

An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.

A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America.