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A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate. [Russia] Brande & C.

A tax levied in money or kind at the gate of a French city on articles brought within the walls. [Written also octroy.]

Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law. Macaulay.

action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.

To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to overdo one's strength.

A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone.

Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.

tuting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.

A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways. Bouvier.

ii. 28. Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Matt. xviii. 26. If they pay this tax, they starve. Tennyson.

A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe- conduct and protection. [Obs.] Spelman.

Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance. "A penitentiary tax." Abp. Bramhall.

of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.

uctioneer in a mock auction. [Cant, U.S.] -- Peter pence, or Peter's pence. (a) An annual tax or tribute, formerly paid by the English people to the pope, being a penny for every house, payable on Lammas or St.Peter's day; -- called also Rome scot, and hearth money. (b) In modern times, a voluntary contribution made by…

A combining form from Gr. a leaf; as, phyllopod, phyllotaxy.

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

of officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police, as levying taxes, etc.; -- so called in Louisiana. Bouvier. -- Police justice, or Police magistrate, a judge of a police court. -- Police offenses (Law), minor offenses against the order of the community, of which a police court may have f…

ick (Mining), a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar. -- Poll tax, a tax levied by the head, or poll; a capitation tax.

A head or poll tax; hence, extortion. [Obs.] Foxe.