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A tyrant. [Obs.] Lordly love is such a tyran fell. Spenser.

A female tyrant. [Obs.] "That proud tyranness." Spenser. Akenside.

Of or pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; unjustly severe in government; absolute; imperious; despotic; cruel; arbitrary; as, a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government. "A power tyrannical." Shak. Our sects a more tyrannic power assume. Roscommon. The oppressor ruled tyrannic where he durst.…

Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant. Booth.

The act of killing a tyrant. Hume.

Like a tyrant; tyrannical. [Obs.] "The proud tyrannish Roman." Gower.

To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over…

Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic. Sir P. Sidney. -- Tyr"an*nous*ly, adv.

The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government. "Sir," would he [Seneca] say, "an emperor mote need…

hich the purposes of government do not require; a cruel master; an oppressor. "This false tyrant, this Nero." Chaucer. Love, to a yielding heart, is a king, but to a resisting, is a tyrant. Sir P. Sidney.

That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing. The vexatious tyranny of the individual despot meets its analogue in the insolent tyranny of the many. I. Taylor.

The quality of being arbitrary; despoticalness; tyranny. Bp. Hall.

Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or government. Dryden. Arbitrary constant, Arbitrary function (Math.), a quantity of function that is introduced into the solution of a problem, and to which any value or form may at will be given, so that the solu…

To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim. Cowper.

terous insect (Braula cæca) parasitic on hive bees. -- Bee martin (Zoöl.), the kingbird (Tyrannus Carolinensis) which occasionally feeds on bees. -- Bee moth (Zoöl.), a moth (Galleria cereana) whose larvæ feed on honeycomb, occasioning great damage in beehives. -- Bee wolf (Zoöl.), the larva of the bee beetle. See I…

To elude, or evade by craft; to foil. [Obs.] When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage. Shak.

orine, or of sulphurous acid. Ure. Immortal liberty, whose look sublime Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying clime. Smollett.

To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister. This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue. Shak.

y; to play the bully; to storm; to rage. Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants. Burke.

eir natural straightness. Milton. The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny. Prescott.