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A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.

gonist with all his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches. Language . . . affluent in expression. H. Reed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]

Utterance abroad; publicity; vent. You gave it air before me. Dryden.

Lately; of late. [Archaic] There hath been alate such tales spread abroad. Latimer.

The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.

carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South Ameri…

A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.

The lantern shown at night by a vessel at anchor. International rules of the road require vessels at anchor to carry from sunset to sunrise a single white light forward if under 150 feet in length, and if longer, two such lights, one near the stern and one forward.

A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

es, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense.

An elephant goad with a sharp spike and hook, resembling a short-handled boat hook. [India] Kipling.

A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle. [Written also anelace.]

The science of the human species as to geographical distribution and environment. Broadly, it includes industrial, commercial, and political geography, and that part of ethnology which deals with distribution and physical environment. -- An`thro*po*ge*og"ra*pher (#), n. -- An`thro*po*ge`o*graph"ic*al (#), a.…

One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Written also anoura.]

Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Also written anourous.]

Having a round, broad face, like an apple. "Apple-faced children." Dickens.

The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.