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The office or rank of an alderman. [R.] B. Jonson.

people. Acts x. 2. Alms are but the vehicles of prayer. Dryden. Tenure by free alms. See Frankalmoign. Blackstone.

shall not live by bread alone. Luke iv. 4. The citizens alone should be at the expense. Franklin.

A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.

Height of rank or excellence; superiority. Swift.

A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

To convert into English; to anglicize. Franklin. Darwin.

A narrow stripe of purple worn by the equites on each side of the tunic as a sign of rank.

A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises.

Openness; frankness. [Archaic]

The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among, "the gods;" deification.

nsidered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. [Obs.] Blackstone.

decision; an arbitrary punishment. It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so. Jer. Taylor. Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things. Landor.

In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with independent authority. Blackstone.

(in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect.

One of the aristocracy or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble.

In a row, line, or rank; successively; in order. Shak. And twenty, rank in rank, they rode arow. Dryden.

A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.

ms in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption. I hate not you for her proud arrogance…

Making, or having the disposition to make, exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons. Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate. Shak.