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A coachman; a driver; especially, one who drives furiously. [Colloq.]

A religious war against infidels or Mohammedan heretics; also, any bitter war or crusade for a principle or belief.

A long outer garment worn by both sexes of Mohammedans of the better class.

Justiceship. B. Jonson.

That part of the army, in Germany and Austria, which has completed the usual military service and is exempt from duty in time of peace, except that it is called out occasionally for drill.

The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste. Balfour.

Held by lease.

A tenant under a lease. -- Lease"hold`ing, a. & n.

The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkühn.

A concave metallic mirror attached to the object-glass end of a microscope, to throw down light on opaque objects; a reflector.

Land held by a life estate.

Likelihood. [Obs.] South.

A dog used in hunting the wild boar; a leamer. Spenser.

A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver. Ezek. xlv. 12.

A silver coin of Turkey formerly rated at twenty, but since 1880 at nineteen, piasters (about 83 cents).

A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.

To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand. Locke.

A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.

By, or with, misapprehension.

To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.