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Administration of justice. The supreme court of judicatory. Clarendon.

An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.

Distance.[Obs.] He had marched to the length of Exeter. Clarendon. At length. (a) At or in the full extent; without abbreviation; as, let the name be inserted at length. (b) At the end or conclusion; after a long period. See Syn. of At last, under Last. -- At arm's length. See under Arm.

Thoughtless; heedless; volatile; unsteady; fickle; loose. "Light- headed, weak men." Clarendon. -- Light"-head`ed*ness, n.

South. Many were not easy to be governed, nor like to conform themselves to strict rules. Clarendon.

o a superior, or to duty, love, etc. He had such loyalty to the king as the law required. Clarendon. Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those Amazons his love still craved, To his one love his loyalty he saved. Spenser.

e to be gained in marriage. "She . . . was looked upon as the richest match of the West." Clarendon.

h Sir William Balfour, exceeded in horse, but were, upon the whole matter, equal in foot. Clarendon.

nd what wrong measures he had taken in the conferring that trust, and lamented his error. Clarendon.

A gloomy state of mind; melancholy. Clarendon.

devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart. [Poetic] Clarendon.

arches fall. Prior. If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have moldered to nothing. Clarendon.

Moonlight. [R.] Clarendon.

evil name upon a virgin. Deut. xxii. 19. The king's army ...had left no good name behind. Clarendon.

Newcastle, being pressed on both sides, was necessitated to draw all his army into York. Clarendon.

necessity and state of times. Shak. The extreme poverty and necessity his majesty was in. Clarendon.

tion of persons to places being . . . a flower of his crown, he would reserve to himself. Clarendon.

The office of a nuncio. Clarendon.

All wickedness will be most odious." Sprat. He rendered himself odious to the Parliament. Clarendon.

ner of their impeachment they could not but conceive did oppugn the rights of Parliament. Clarendon.