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A sword or other mark of the profession of arms; in general, a mark of dignity. Let there be deducted, out of our main potation, Five marks in hatchments to adorn this thigh. Beau. & Fl.

One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church." Addis & Arnold.

A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [U. S.] -- Ho"bo*ism (#), n.

eiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign.

A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars. S. Longfellow.

A professional rider and trainer of race horses.

crisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action. Hypocritical professions of friendship and of pacific intentions were not spared. Macaulay. -- Hyp`o*crit"ic*al*ly, adv.

pertaining. All chances incident to man's frail life. Milton. The studies incident to his profession. Milward.

ty, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as…

lowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard. What men call policy and knowledge of the world, is commonly no other thing than dissimulation and insincerity. Blair.

o interferes wrongfully or officiously. The untrained man, . . . the interloper as to the professions. I. Taylor.

A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction.

A professional rider of horses in races. Addison.

ic journal, or one whose business it to write for a public journal; an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical. Addison.

to conduct or contribute to a public journal; to follow the profession of a journalist.

The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice. The honor of the judges in their judicature is the king's honor. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to a jurist, to the legal profession, or to jurisprudence. [R.] "Juristic ancestry." Lowell.

A professional mourner who wails at a funeral. [Ireland]

Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.

he British Parliament who have held high judicial office, or have been noted in the legal profession. -- Law merchant, or Commercial law, a system of rules by which trade and commerce are regulated; -- deduced from the custom of merchants, and regulated by judicial decisions, as also by enactments of legislatures. --…