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To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll. [Law.] Charles Reade.

ral; as, their majesties attended the concert. In all the public writs which he [Emperor Charles V.] now issued as King of Spain, he assumed the title of Majesty, and required it from his subjects as a mark of respect. Before that time all the monarchs of Europe were satisfied with the appellation of Highness or Grace.…

One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.

pon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife. Milton.

Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.

rsity, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from the methodical strictness of members of the club in all religious duties.

Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake. Arbuthnot.

Fond of woman. [R.] Charles Reade.

formerly Sinapis), as white mustard (B. alba), black mustard (B. Nigra), wild mustard or charlock (B. Sinapistrum).

A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous grow…

A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne. Sir W. Scott.

of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it. -- Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer. -- Shaking palsy, paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a pe…

tainment of which dumb acting as well as burlesque dialogue, music, and dancing by Clown, Harlequin, etc., are features.

One who adhered to the Parliament, in opposition to King Charles I. Walpole.

One of the adherents of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91) in his advocacy of home rule for Ireland.

me person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines. Madder . . . in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity. Mortimer.

The body of peers; the nobility, collectively. When Charlemain with all his peerage fell. Milton.

(Eng. Hist.), the parliamentary declaration of the rights of the people, assented to by Charles I.

Same as Charles's Wain. Ice plow, a plow used for cutting ice on rivers, ponds, etc., into cakes suitable for storing. [U. S.] -- Mackerel plow. See under Mackerel. -- Plow alms, a penny formerly paid by every plowland to the church. Cowell. -- Plow beam, that part of the frame of a plow to which the draught is appli…

or commentary on a passage of Scripture; as, the first postils were composed by order of Charlemagne.