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A money of account in Persia, whose value varies greatly at different times and places. Its average value may be reckoned at about two and a half dollars.

Custom; habitual use. [Obs.] Boyle.

Divination by means of barley meal. Knowles.

The act of telling fortunes with cards.

Divination by written paper or by cards.

See Kleptomania.

Divination by the use of a mirror.

A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility. Wharton.

A person affected with kleptomania.

Of or pertaining to the Turks; as, the Ottoman power or empire.

See Accustomance. [Obs.]

The governor of a province of the Ottoman empire, next in dignity to the grand vizier.

her [his disgraced slave] to court, together with her pretty by-blow, the present Padre Ottomano. Evelyn.

Formerly, one of the administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- now called a vilayet.

See Kleptomania.

See Ottoman.

An Ottoman. [R.] Shak.

The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire, officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered.

A piece of furniture like an ottoman, generally circular and affording cushion seats on all sides.

In Persia, the sum of 50 tomans. Light purse, or Empty purse, poverty or want of resources. -- Long purse, or Heavy purse, wealth; riches. -- Purse crab (Zoöl.), any land crab of the genus Birgus, allied to the hermit crabs. They sometimes weigh twenty pounds or more, and are very strong, being able to crack cocoanut…