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A siliceous variety of calcite, or carbonate of lime, having a silvery-white, pearly luster, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.

A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent.

A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.

en, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman. "Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges. " Prescott.

An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

Disposal; control; license. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.

To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.

A magistrate or policeman. [Slang, Eng.]

A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.

uch as. [Obs. or Colloq.] And being you have Declined his means, you have increased his malice. Beau. & Fl.

(1886 --93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim of the Unit…

ed of full information, may be provisionally landed for examination. -- Bill of store, a license granted at the customhouse to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for a voyage, custom free. Wharton. -- Bills payable (pl.), the outstanding unpaid notes or acceptances made and issued by an i…

A club; esp., a policeman's club.

Obs.] Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger. Bacon. I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way. Reliq. Wot.

A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.

One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.