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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.

f 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.

o circumscribe; to restrain; to confine. Where full measure only bounds excess. Milton. Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds. Dryden.

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

-- 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 of…

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

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.

A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.

The treasury of a college or monastery.

A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students. And the major Oxford kept the buttery bar. E. Hall.

gislative assemblly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.

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]

The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.

forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.

he University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856. Your caputs and heads of colleges. Lamb. Caput mortuum (. Etym: [L., dead head.] (Old Chem.) The residuum after distillation or sublimation; hence, worthless residue.

Ch.) One of the ecclesiastical prince who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college. The clerics of the supreme Chair are called Cardinals, as undoubtedly adhering more nearly to the hinge by which all things are moved. Pope Leo IX.

isoners, or in carrying propositions to an enemy; a ship beating a flag of truce and privileged from capture.