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The science which treats of minerals with special reference to their origin.

Originating in the character of the germ, or at the first commencement of an individual; -- said of peculiarities of structure, character, etc.

The office, jurisdiction, or duty, of a pastor; pastorate.

Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.

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

Same as Wharfage. Smart.

The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. Wharton.

The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper.

Pressure.

, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt. "The fogging proctorage of money." Milton.

Consisting of forty; forty years old.

An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.

The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter.

Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.

Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.

A quarterly allowance.

To encourage again.

, mostly perennial herbs growing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions. Burnet saxifrage, a European umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella Saxifraga). -- Golden saxifrage, a low half-sacculent herb (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium) growing in rivulets in Europe; also, C. Americanum, common in the United States. See also…

Refuse water after scouring.

ck rather less in coin than has been received in bullion, and is called "levying a seigniorage"), the coin will rise to the extent of the seigniorage above the value of the bullion. J. S. Mill.