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t, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income. Do not anticipate your revenues and live upon air till you know what you are worth. Gray.

Not furnished with a revenue. [R.] Milton.

ing actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts. [Cant] The accounts of revenues supplied . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, "actuals," but only Egyptian budget estimates. Fortnightly Review.

otality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.

In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues.

eptacle or receiver. [Obs.] It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud. Jer. Taylor. Audit ale, a kind of ale, brewed at the English universities, orig. for the day of audit. -- Audit house, Audit room, an appendage to a cathedral, for the transaction of its business.…

h. Augmentation court (Eng. Hist.), a court erected by Stat. 27 Hen. VIII., to augment to revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved. Encyc. Brit.

Merely; only. R. For now his son is duke. W. Barely in title, not in revenue. Shak.

stical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.

ntaining a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc.

imensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.

Of or pertaining to finance and public revenue.

The science of finance or public revenue.

n a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.

[Obs.] He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them. Holland.

The possession or revenue of a chapel. Johnson.

Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder.

An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue. [India] J. Mill.

England, a dean), as Westminster Abbey. (b) An association of churches, possessing common revenues and administered under the joint pastorate of several ministers; as, the Reformed (Dutch) Collegiate Church of New York.

Income or revenue. "What are thy comings in" Shak.