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Beacon
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BeaconA signal erected as a sea mark for the use of mariners; also, to give warning of the approach of an enemy.
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Mark
This term has several acceptations: 1) It is a sign traced on paper or parchment, which stands in the place of a signature, usually made by persons who cannot write. 2) It is the sign, writing or ticket put upon manufactured goods to distinguish them from others.3) Mark or marc, denotes a weight used in several parts of Europe, and for several commodities, especially gold and silver. When gold and silver are sold by the mark, it is divided into twenty-four carats. 4) Mark is also in England a money of accounts, and in some other countries a coin.
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Beach
The sea shore.
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Battery
Latin batuere, to beat. The unlawful beating of another. Any unlawful touching of person of another, either by the agressor or by any person or thing set in motion by him. The least touching of another's person willfully, or in anger, is a battery. The law cannot draw the line between different degrees of violence, and therefore prohibits the first and lowest stage of it - every man's person being sacred and no other having a right to meddle with it in the slightest manner.
Batture
An elevation of the bed of a river under the surface of the water; but it is sometimes used to signify the same elevation when it has risen above the surface.
Bawdy-house
Criminal law. A house of ill-fame, kept for the resort and unlawful commerce of lewd people of both sexes.
Bay
Is an enclosure to keep in the water for the supply of a mill or other contrivance, so that the water may be able to, drive the wheels of such mill.
Beach
The sea shore.
Beacon
Beadle
A messenger or apparitor of a court, who cites persons to appear to what is alleged against them, is so called.
Bearer
One who bears or carries a thing.
Bearers
English Criminal law. Such as bear down or oppress others; maintainers
Beau pleader
English law. Fair pleading.
Beaufort wind force scale
A table describing wind forces in numbers (from 1 to 17), ranging from calm to hurricane conditions and providing specifications for each such wind force at sea and on land, giving equivalent mean speeds in knots, statute miles per hour, meters per second and mean wind force in pounds per square foot at standard density.
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Mark
This term has several acceptations: 1) It is a sign traced on paper or parchment, which stands in the place of a signature, usually made by persons who cannot write. 2) It is the sign, writing or ticket put upon manufactured goods to distinguish them from others.3) Mark or marc, denotes a weight used in several parts of Europe, and for several commodities, especially gold and silver. When gold and silver are sold by the mark, it is divided into twenty-four carats. 4) Mark is also in England a money of accounts, and in some other countries a coin.
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Beach
The sea shore.
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Battery
Latin batuere, to beat. The unlawful beating of another. Any unlawful touching of person of another, either by the agressor or by any person or thing set in motion by him. The least touching of another's person willfully, or in anger, is a battery. The law cannot draw the line between different degrees of violence, and therefore prohibits the first and lowest stage of it - every man's person being sacred and no other having a right to meddle with it in the slightest manner.
Batture
An elevation of the bed of a river under the surface of the water; but it is sometimes used to signify the same elevation when it has risen above the surface.
Bawdy-house
Criminal law. A house of ill-fame, kept for the resort and unlawful commerce of lewd people of both sexes.
Bay
Is an enclosure to keep in the water for the supply of a mill or other contrivance, so that the water may be able to, drive the wheels of such mill.
Beach
The sea shore.
Beacon
Beadle
A messenger or apparitor of a court, who cites persons to appear to what is alleged against them, is so called.
Bearer
One who bears or carries a thing.
Bearers
English Criminal law. Such as bear down or oppress others; maintainers
Beau pleader
English law. Fair pleading.
Beaufort wind force scale
A table describing wind forces in numbers (from 1 to 17), ranging from calm to hurricane conditions and providing specifications for each such wind force at sea and on land, giving equivalent mean speeds in knots, statute miles per hour, meters per second and mean wind force in pounds per square foot at standard density.
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