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To frighten; to worry. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] T. Brown.

See Galligaskins.

In a conjugal manner; matrimonially; connubially.

Thriftily; prudently.

In a illegal manner; unlawfully.

In a legal manner.

th profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. Nature not bounteous now, but lavish grows; Our paths with flowers she prodigally strows. Dryden.

In a regal or royal manner.

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.

Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact.

Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested.

Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.

The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.

self to receive the property and pay the consideration. A contract is a bargain that is legally binding. Wharton.

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate. The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone.

A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.

The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another. Wharton.

a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. -- Canonical letters, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a dishop to traveling clergymam or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the cammunion, and to distinguish them…