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An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster…

ner, a civil officer, usually one of a board, commissioned to regulate and control the appointment, duties, and discipline of the police. -- Police constable, or Police officer, a policeman. -- Police court, a minor court to try persons brought before it by the police. -- Police inspector, an officer of police ranki…

Perfumed ointment; esp., a fragrant unguent for the hair; pomatum; -- originally made from apples.

An ointment or pomatum made of black poplar buds. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws. In laws, that which is natural bindeth universally; that which is positive, not so. Hooker.

to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment. Wharton.

The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts. Burrill.

An ointment used in farriery.

A meeting by appointment. Sprat.

A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices. Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import.

t or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials. [Polit. Cant, U. S.]

Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret. Goat's rue. See under Goat. -- Rue anemone, a pretty springtime flower (Thalictrum anemonides) common in the United States. -- Wall rue, a little fern (Asplenium Ruta-muraria) common on walls in Europe.

An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment. Chaucer.

To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment. [Polit. Cant]

or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great a sorrow suffereth now Arcite! Chaucer. The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.…

Selection or appointment by lot. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

lic office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.

ling into error or vice. We must labor so as to stand with godliness, according to his appointment. Latimer.

An outcry; a loud call; a clamor. [Obs.] Spenser. To set steven, to make an appointment. [Obs.] They setten steven for to meet To playen at the dice. Chaucer.

To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment.