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; heedfulness. To this difference it is right that advertence should be had in regulating taxation. J. S. Mill.

unds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.

To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke. Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people. Clarendon.

has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. Locke. For much I dread due payment by the Greeks Of yesterday's arrear. Cowper. I have a large arrear of letters to write. J. D. Forbes. In arrear or In arrears, behind; backward; behindhand; in debt.

s. Smollett. The mildness and precision of their laws ascertained the rule and measure of taxation. Gibbon.

To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

Liable to be assessed or taxed; as, assessable property.

sessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation. Bouvier.

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.

(M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana or Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

dition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style. This gives to their syntax a peculiar character of simplicity and baldness. W. D. Whitney.

A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.

e collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax. Close borough, or Pocket borough, a borough having the right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination is in the hands of a single person. -- Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the pa…

Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.

. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries. To open the budget, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government.…

To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes. My burdened heart would break. Shak.

Burdensome. [Obs.] "Burdenous taxations." Shak.

al statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property.

Of so much per head; as, a capitatim tax; a capitatim grant.