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during pleasure. For our English judges there never was . . . any bene placito as their tenure. F. Harrison.

One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.

enous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.

A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.

The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.

The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which…

The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha. The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost…

Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.

Manured with bone; as, boned land.

The manuring of land with bones.

ts and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.

The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage.

To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. Dryden. Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. Everett.

Nurture; education; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's charge. Shak.

to subdue; to restrain; to reduce to obedience. -- To bring up. (a) To carry upward; to nurse; to rear; to educate.

An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.

An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii), somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.

A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft. Burrill.

below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.

An ancient Spanish land tenure similar to the English knight's fee; hence, in Spain and countries settled by the Spanish, a land measure of varying size. In Cuba it is about 33 acres; in Porto Rico, about 194 acres; in the Southwestern United States, about 108 acres.