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pl. of Louse.

That can be licensed.

in business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors. To have a license and a leave at London to dwell. P. Plowman.

Having a license; permitted or authorized by license; as, a licensed victualer; a licensed traffic. Licensed victualer, one who has a license to keep an in or eating house; esp., a victualer who has a license to sell intoxicating liquors.

The person to whom a license is given.

One who gives a license; as, a licenser of the press.

A licensing. [R.]

One who has a license to exercise a profession; as, a licentiate in medicine or theology. The college of physicians, in July, 1687, published an edict, requiring all the fellows, candidates, and licentiates, to give gratuitous advice to the neighboring poor. Johnson.

Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press. A wit that no licentious pertness knows. Savage.

A cooperator. [R.] Success unto our valiant general, And happiness to his accomplices! Shak.

The state of being an accomplice. [R.] Sir H. Taylor.

The European shad (Clupea vulgaris); allice shad. See Alose.

In English; in the English manner; as, Livorno, Anglice Leghorn.

The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.

Consisting of, or containing calcareous and siliceous earths.

See Chalice.

A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

Having a calyx or cup; cupshaped. "Chaliced flowers." Shak.

One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.

A kind of haircloth undergarment. Southey.