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Maintenance. [Obs.] Abp. Sancroft.

See Macrocosm. Croft.

f. The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance. Bancroft.

Designed to objurgate or chide; containing or expressing reproof; culpatory. Bancroft. The objurgatory question of the Pharisees. Paley.

e. Swift. He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries. Bancroft.

A croft, or small field; a paddock. [Prov. Eng.]

An inferior tenant; one who rents a pendicle or croft. [Scot.] Jamieson.

general passion. [R.] A little time be allowed for the madness of popularity to cease. Bancroft.

One who rides over a post road to carry the mails. Bancroft.

es. Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket. Bancroft.

smen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police. Bancroft.

of violent crimes. [U.S.] A few stood neutral, or declared in favor of the Regulators. Bancroft.

A little king. [Archaic] Heylin. Bancroft.

ble. He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind. Bancroft.

same as Sannup. Bancroft.

To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display. [Obs.] Abp. Sancroft.

so inherited. The kingdom of Naples . . . was constituted a secundo-geniture of Spain. Bancroft.

thers; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty (Law), an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in interest with any other person; -- distinguished from joint tenancy, coparcenary, and common. Blackstone.…

ered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system. Bancroft. Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. Otway. But thy fire Shall be more tempered, and thy hope far higher. Byron. She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about h…

states might rest on equity, the Indian title to lands was in all cases to be quieted. Bancroft.