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A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mourning, etc.).

An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.

Same as Hemostatic.

Laws relating to the equilibrium of the blood in the blood vessels.

A manufacturer of iron, or large dealer therein. Bp. Hurd.

A temporary mast, in place of one that has been carried away, or broken.

The principal mast in a ship or other vessel.

The master or superintendent of a mint. Also used figuratively.

The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.

Applied to a signature when the body of the instrument is in another's handwriting. Burrill.

A collection of names and terms; a dictionary; specif., a collection of Greek names, with explanatory notes, made by Julius Pollux about A.D.180.

To furnish (a vessel) with too long or too heavy a mast or masts.

To overpower; to subdue; to vanquish; to govern.

Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper. Dunglison.

Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.

Of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a play upon words.

One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.

In Great Britain, an officer of the Treasury who makes all payments and disbursements, civil as well as military. He is a member of the ministry, but not of the cabinet.

Of or pertaining to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone, periotic.

The condition of having more than two mammæ, or breasts.