Category: C

A knowing or skillful counsellor

The title of the empress of Russia.

Additional; heaping up; Increasing; forming an aggregate. The word signifies that two things are to be added together, instead of one being a repetition or in substitution of the other. People v.

A woman who has been appointed to the office of curator; a female guardian. Cross’ Curatrlx v. Cross’ Legatees, 4 Giat. (Va.) 257.

A court held by the sheriff of Chester, in a place there called the “Pendice” or “Pentice;” probably it was so called from being originally held under a pent-house, or open shed

Such as are paid periodically, or from time to time as the services are rendered or the work is performed ; more particularly, wages for the current period, hence not including such

A term used in Hiiulostan for the discount or allowance made in the exchange of rupees, in contradistinction to ball a, which is the sum deducted. Enc. Loud.

Custom shall be taken [is to be construed] strictly. Jenk. Cent. 83.

One who steals by the method of cutting purses; a common practice when men wore their purses at their girdles, as was once the custom. Wharton.

The title of the eldest son of the czar and czarina.