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Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain.

Civility or polite attention to ladies; in a bed sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue.

Courtesy; civility; complaisance. [Obs.] To show us so much gentry and good will. Shak.

That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty. Disease germ (Biol.), a name applied to certain tiny bacterial organisms or their spores, such as Anthrax bacillus and the Micrococcus of fowl cholera, which have been demonstrated to be the cause of certain diseases. See Germ the…

Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority.

A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically. [Obs.] With you, goodman boy, an you please. Shak.

Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.

One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person. Chesterfield.

he exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military. He Mars deposed, and arms to gowns made yield. Dryden.

gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.

an organized voluntary association of men who served in the Union army or navy during the civil war in the United States. The order has chapters, called Posts, throughout the country. -- Grand cross. (a) The highest rank of knighthood in the Order of the Bath. (b) A knight grand cross. -- Grand cordon, the cordon or…

ry XIII. in 1582, including the method of adjusting the leap years so as to harmonize the civil year with the solar, and also the regulation of the time of Easter and the movable feasts by means of epochs. See Gregorian year (below). -- Gregorian chant (Mus.), plain song, or canto fermo, a kind of unisonous music, acc…

Of or pert. to Hallstatt, Austria, or the Hallstatt civilization. -- Hallstatt, or Hallstattian, civilization, a prehistoric civilization of central Europe, variously dated at from 1000 to 1500 b. c. and usually associated with the Celtic or Alpine race. It was characterized by expert use of bronze, a knowledge of iron…

Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South.

Friendly; civil; gentle; kind. [Obs.] Chaucer.

arousal. [Slang] -- High treason, treason against the sovereign or the state, the highest civil offense. See Treason.

r with the Egyptians and Assyrians. Especially in the north they developed a considerable civilization, of which numerous monuments and inscriptions are extant. Authorities are not agreed as to their race. While several attempts have been made to decipher the Hittite characters, little progress has yet been made.…

A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large. [New Eng.] Bartlett.

ten with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. [Collog.] The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. Darwin.