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ple; one having no rank of nobility. All below them [the peers] even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam.

A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.

amation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form. I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia. Rev. xix. 1.

hose of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner. Brande & C.

n the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right. Common appendant, a right belonging to the owners or occupiers of arable land to put commonable beasts upon the waste land in the manor where they dwell. -- Common appurtenant, a similar righ…

To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.

nal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unidentified.

contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't.

A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.

A person of intermediate rank; a commoner.

allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This…

A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer.

One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.

ersity of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford. Ld. Lytton.

e of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior rank; as, barons have precedence of commoners. Which of them [the different desires] has the precedency in determining the will to the next action Locke.

nstituting the gentry or lesser nobility. They possessed power of life and death over the commoners, and wore two swords as their distinguishing mark. Their special rights and privileges were abolished with the fall of feudalism in 1871.

The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.

The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.

acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.