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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.

To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.

License; indulgence. [Obs.] Locke.

A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent.

A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.

An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

Disposal; control; license. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.

(1886 --93) between Great Britain and the United States as to the right of Canadians not licensed by the United States to carry on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim of the Unit…

ed of full information, may be provisionally landed for examination. -- Bill of store, a license granted at the customhouse to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for a voyage, custom free. Wharton. -- Bills payable (pl.), the outstanding unpaid notes or acceptances made and issued by an i…

One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels. [China] S. W. Williams.

A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. Simmonds.

were the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts and offices having jurisdiction of marriage licenses, divorces, registration of wills, etc. -- To be on short commons, to have small allowance of food. [Colloq.]

A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.

A company licensed for the purpose of carrying out improvements, by means of loans and advances upon real securities. ]

One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. Shak.