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Reign; rule. [India]

Same as Rajah.

A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person of importance in the agricultural districts. [India]

The office or dignity of a rajah.

d, or royal and military, caste; a Kshatriya; especially, an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana, in northern central India.

Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also chapareras or colloq. chaps. [Sp. Amer.]

e proper authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not legally required. "An extrajudicial opinion." Hallam. -- Ex`tra*ju*di"cial*ly, adv.

A conveyance, as by deed, effected by the act of the parties and not involving, as in the fine and recovery, judicial proceedings.

A sovereign prince in India; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.

To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms. [R.] Sir I. Newton.

The act of trajecting; a throwing or casting through or across; also, emission. Boyle.

The curve which a body describes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.

See Treget, Tregetour, and Tregetry. [Obs.]

To become barbarous. The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey.

Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air. A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, and ferules, and the black hole. H. Spencer.…

The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha. The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost…

Same as Chaparajos. [Sp. Amer.]

relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted. Wharton. Confession and avoidance (Law), a mode of pleading in which the party confesses the facts as stated by his adversary, but alleges some new matter by way of avoiding the l…

One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan.

owder and a light (short) bullet, giving a high initial velocity and consequently a flat trajectory. It is usually of moderately large caliber.