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Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Heb.…

anner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion. Udall. And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient. Tennyson.

To revile or abuse in scurrilous language. Southey.

To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. So Dagon shall be magnified, and God, Besides whom is no god, compared with idols, Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and aven…

or delude; to cheat. To play her pranks, and bob the fool, The shrewish wife began. Turbervile.

A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter. Bouvier.

The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a member to Parliament.

A privilege or allowance of necessaries.

A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

t. -- Breach of peace, disorderly conduct, disturbing the public peace. -- Breach of privilege, an act or default in violation of the privilege or either house of Parliament, of Congress, or of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false swearing before a committee. Mozley. Abbott. - Breach of promise, violation…

A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].

easily broken. [Obs. or Prov.] Spenser. As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass. Turbervile.

Mean; servile. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The body. [Obs.] Shak. My liver leaped within my bulk. Turbervile. Barrel bulk. See under Barrel. -- To break bulk (Naut.), to begin to unload or more the cargo. -- In bulk, in a mass; loose; not inclosed in separate packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape that any desired quantity may be taken or sold…

The state of privilege of a burgess. South.

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

The state or privileges of a burgher.

or powerful ruler. See Kaiser, Kesar. Malborough anticipated the day when he would be servilely flattered and courted by Cæsar on one side and by Louis the Great on the other. Macaulay.

The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. [Brokers' Cant]