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A joint legatee.

A coat with short flaps.

An Australian parrot (Calopsitta Novæ-Hollandiæ); -- so called from its note.

a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together. Commitee of the whole [house], a committee, embracing all the members present, into which a legislative or deliberative body sometimes resolves itself, for the purpose of considering a particular measure under the operation of differen…

A member of a committee.

A joint trustee.

The person in whose favor a covenant is made.

Cast steel made by fusing in crucibles crude or scrap steel, wrought iron, and other ingredients and fluxes.

See Damask steel, under Damask.

One to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor. Blackstone.

One to whom a thing is dedicated; -- correlative to dedicator.

us duties and ceremonies; a bigot. While Father Le Blanc was very devout he was not a devotee. A. S. Hardy.

See Dainty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute. Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs. Milton.

One who disesteems. Boyle.

Very steep. [Obs.] Florio.

Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.

See Octodecimo.

Next in order after the seventeenth.

of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence. Bp. Gardiner. Famous men, -- whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly l…