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Wist not; knew not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

c affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state. For forms of government let fools contest: Whate'er is best administered is best. Pope.

Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.

A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot,

A refractory material consisting of crushed or ground siliceous stone, mixed with fire clay; -- used for lining Bessemer converters; also used for macadamizing roads.

r or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument. Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua. Ex. xxiv. 13. I chose Camillo for the minister, to poison My friend Polixenes. Shak.

Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant. Enlightening spirits and ministerial flames. Prior.

A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.

In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister.

See Ministry. Milton.

hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right. "Here on his sinister cheek." Shak. My mother's blood Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister Bounds in my father's Shak.

Left-handed; hence, unlucky. [Obs.] Lovelace.

In a sinister manner. Wood.

To be subservient; to be useful. [Obs.] "Our passions . . . subminister to the best and worst purposes." L'EStrange.

To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A large and delicious pear or Flemish origin.

Takes away. [Obs.] Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt. Latimn.

To use or apply; to administer. Camden.

A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. Encyc. Brit.