CPage 458
- English Word Court Definition The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
- English Word Court Definition The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.
- English Word Court Definition A tribunal established for the administration of justice.
- English Word Court Definition The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
- English Word Court Definition The session of a judicial assembly.
- English Word Court Definition Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
- English Word Court Definition A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
- English Word Court Definition To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.
- English Word Court Definition To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.
- English Word Court Definition To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.
- English Word Court Definition To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
- English Word Court Definition To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.
- English Word Court tennis Definition See under Tennis.
- English Word Court-baron Definition An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.
- English Word Court-craft Definition The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.
- English Word Court-cupboard Definition A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions.
- English Word Court-leet Definition A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet.
- English Word Court-martial Definition A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
- English Word Court-martial Definition To subject to trial by a court-martial.
- English Word Court-martialed Definition of Court-martial
- English Word Court-martialing Definition of Court-martial
- English Word Court-plaster Definition Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.
- English Word Courtbred Definition Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
- English Word Courted Definition of Court
- English Word Courtehouse Definition A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings.
- English Word Courtehouse Definition A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States.
- English Word Courteous Definition Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant.
- English Word Courteously Definition In a courteous manner.
- English Word Courteousness Definition The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
- English Word Courtepy Definition A short coat of coarse cloth.