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Good will; good fellowship; agreement. [Scot.]

w] -- To pick a bone with, to quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over a bone; to settle a disagreement. [Colloq.]

itant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone.

A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.

The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.

The quality of being capital; preeminence. [R.]

To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree. [Obs.] There capitulates with the king . . . to take to wife his daughter Mary. Heylin. There is no reason why the reducing of any agreement to certain heads or capitula should not be called to capitulate. Trench.…

A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement. With special capitulation that neither the Scots nor the French shall refortify. Bp. Burnet.

An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners. Wilhelm.

A freeman of the lowest class; one not a thane or of the servile classes; a churl.

personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit. See Maintenance.

An organized branch of some society or fraternity as of the Freemasons. Robertson.

an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.

A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact.

One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises. That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. G. Eliot.

ly closed in a hand-to-hand contest. Prescott. To close on or upon, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. "Would induce France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage." Sir W. Temple. -- To close with. (a) To accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the ter…

Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas. Locke.

Exact correspondence in nature, character, result, circumstances, etc.; concurrence; agreement. The very concurrence and coincidence of ao many evidences . . . carries a great weight. Sir M. Hale. Those who discourse . . . of the nature of truth . . . affirm a perfect coincidence between truth and goodness. South.…

To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement. I must collage it, word, with the original Hebrew. Coleridge.

A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning. The foxe, maister of collusion. Spenser. That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ig…