Beau - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: beauBeau-pleader
Beau-pleader (to plead fairly), an obsolete writ upon the Statute of Malbridge (52 Hen. 3, c. 11), which enacted that neither in the circuits of the justices, nor in counties, hundreds, or courts-baron, any fines should be taken for fair pleading, i.e., for not pleading fairly or aptly to the purpose; upon this statute, them, this writ was ordained, addressed to the sheriff, bailiff, or him who shall demand such fine, prohibiting him to demand it; an alias, pluries, and attachment followed, Nat. Br. 596. It used to be had as well in respect of vicious as fair pleading by way of amendment-2 Inst. 122....
Beauish
Like a beau characteristic of a beau foppish fine...
Beauship
The state of being a beau the personality of a beau...
Beau
A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion a dandy...
Beau ideal
A conception or image of consummate beauty moral or physical formed in the mind free from all the deformities defects and blemishes seen in actual existence an ideal or faultless standard or model...
Beau monde
The fashionable world people of fashion and gayety...
Beaux
pl of Beau...
Gallivant
To play the beau to wait upon the ladies also to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan...
Otto cycle
A four stroke cycle for internal combustion engines consisting of the following operations First stroke suction into cylinder of explosive charge as of gas and air second stroke compression ignition and explosion of this charge third stroke the working stroke expansion of the gases fourth stroke expulsion of the products of combustion from the cylinder This is the cycle invented by Beau de Rochas in 1862 and applied by Dr Otto in 1877 in the Otto Crossley gas engine the first commercially successful internal combustion engine made...
Polled
Deprived of a poll or of something belonging to the poll Specifically a Lopped said of trees having their tops cut off b Cropped hence bald said of a person ldquoThe polled bachelorrdquo Beau amp Fl c Having cast the antlers said of a stag d Without horns as polled cattle polled sheep...
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