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f Anjou, in 1448; and the third by the Sultan Selim III., in 1801, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services. Brande & C.

e balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign. Prescott.

A royal headdress or cap of sovereignty, worn by emperors, kings, princes, etc.

The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. Burrill.

A member of a curia, esp. of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.

med. [Archaic] A sable stole of cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Milton. By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed. Pope.

om our eyes. Trench. Deceptive cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or in some foreign key, postponing the final close.

anity, or dress. Pope. Two and a half per cent should be deducted out of the pay of the foreign troops. Bp. Burnet. We deduct from the computation of our years that part of our time which is spent in . . . infancy. Norris.

Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument.

in of France; as, the Delphin classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini).

ed; a letting down; a lowering; dejection. "Demission of mind." Hammond. Demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange.

zing themselves, or, in other words, of publicly renouncing their allegiance to their sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his enemy. Prescott.

mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

One admitted to residence in a foreign country. Ye gods, Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. Dryden.

The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.

The act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.

A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign. Irresponsible power in human hands so naturally leads to it, that cruelty has become associated with despot and tyrant. C. J. Smith.

Regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.

as a superior; to command; to impose conditions (on). Who presumed to dictate to the sovereign. Macaulay.

distinction; characteristic quality; specific attribute. The marks and differences of sovereignty. Davies.