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on, as a future event or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective benefit. Points on which the promises, at the time of ordination, had no prospective bearing. W. Jay.

Formerly, a chief clerk in the Court of King's Bench and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master. [Eng.] Wharton. Burrill.

To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor. Prescott.

A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.

One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See Provision, 5. P. Plowman.

Benefit; profit; good; advantage. [Obs.] That shall be for your hele and for your prow. Chaucer.

To procure; to get. I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. Sir W. Scot.

stius hoped to put me off with an harangue. Boyle. We might put him off with this answer. Bentley.

otigris, quagga). The upper parts are reddish brown, becoming paler behind and behind and beneath, with dark stripes on the face, neck, and fore part of the body.

igeon. -- Queen regent, or Queen regnant, a queen reigning in her own right. -- Queen's Bench. See King's Bench. -- Queen's counsel, Queen's evidence. See King's counsel, King's evidence, under King. -- Queen's delight (Bot.), an American plant (Stillinqia sylvatica) of the Spurge family, having an herbaceous stem…

A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type. [Written also chinone, kinone.]

A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme.

An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.

An instrument for bending a bow.

A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction.

Rankly; stoutly; violently. [Obs.] That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell. Fairfax.

To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity. [Written also ravin, and ravine.] Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. Gen. xlix. 27.

nt, -- required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.

harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions. Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate Milton.

, or customs duties. Blount. Rebated cross, a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot.