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great seal
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Great seal
(gcide) | Great \Great\ (gr[=a]t), a. [Compar. Greater; superl.
Greatest.] [OE. gret, great, AS. gre['a]t; akin to OS. &
LG. gr[=o]t, D. groot, OHG. gr[=o]z, G. gross. Cf. Groat
the coin.]
1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous;
expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great
house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.
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2. Large in number; numerous; as, a great company, multitude,
series, etc.
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3. Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time;
as, a great while; a great interval.
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4. Superior; admirable; commanding; -- applied to thoughts,
actions, and feelings.
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5. Endowed with extraordinary powers; uncommonly gifted; able
to accomplish vast results; strong; powerful; mighty;
noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher,
etc.
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6. Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent;
distinguished; foremost; principal; as, great men; the
great seal; the great marshal, etc.
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He doth object I am too great of birth. --Shak.
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7. Entitled to earnest consideration; weighty; important; as,
a great argument, truth, or principle.
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8. Pregnant; big (with young).
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The ewes great with young. --Ps. lxxviii.
71.
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9. More than ordinary in degree; very considerable in degree;
as, to use great caution; to be in great pain.
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We have all
Great cause to give great thanks. --Shak.
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10. (Genealogy) Older, younger, or more remote, by single
generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one
degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as,
great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's
father), great-grandson, etc.
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Great bear (Astron.), the constellation Ursa Major.
Great cattle (Law), all manner of cattle except sheep and
yearlings. --Wharton.
Great charter (Eng. Hist.), Magna Charta.
Great circle of a sphere, a circle the plane of which
passes through the center of the sphere.
Great circle sailing, the process or art of conducting a
ship on a great circle of the globe or on the shortest arc
between two places.
Great go, the final examination for a degree at the
University of Oxford, England; -- called also greats.
--T. Hughes.
Great guns. (Naut.) See under Gun.
The Great Lakes the large fresh-water lakes (Lakes
Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario) which lie on
the northern borders of the United States.
Great master. Same as Grand master, under Grand.
Great organ (Mus.), the largest and loudest of the three
parts of a grand organ (the others being the choir organ
and the swell, and sometimes the pedal organ or foot
keys), It is played upon by a separate keyboard, which has
the middle position.
The great powers (of Europe), in modern diplomacy, Great
Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, and Italy.
Great primer. See under Type.
Great scale (Mus.), the complete scale; -- employed to
designate the entire series of musical sounds from lowest
to highest.
Great sea, the Mediterranean sea. In Chaucer both the Black
and the Mediterranean seas are so called.
Great seal.
(a) The principal seal of a kingdom or state.
(b) In Great Britain, the lord chancellor (who is
custodian of this seal); also, his office.
Great tithes. See under Tithes.
The great, the eminent, distinguished, or powerful.
The Great Spirit, among the North American Indians, their
chief or principal deity.
To be great (with one), to be intimate or familiar (with
him). --Bacon.
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Great seal
(gcide) | Seal \Seal\, n. [OE. seel, OF. seel, F. sceau, fr. L. sigillum a
little figure or image, a seal, dim. of signum a mark, sign,
figure, or image. See Sign, n., and cf. Sigil.]
1. An engraved or inscribed stamp, used for marking an
impression in wax or other soft substance, to be attached
to a document, or otherwise used by way of authentication
or security.
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2. Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an
instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to
give a deed under hand and seal.
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Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond
Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud.
--Shak.
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3. That which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed
on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it.
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4. That which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which
authenticates; that which secures; assurance. "Under the
seal of silence." --Milton.
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Like a red seal is the setting sun
On the good and the evil men have done.
--Longfellow.
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5. An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of
gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe
dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a
deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a
draintrap.
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Great seal. See under Great.
Privy seal. See under Privy, a.
Seal lock, a lock in which the keyhole is covered by a seal
in such a way that the lock can not be opened without
rupturing the seal.
Seal manual. See under Manual, a.
Seal ring, a ring having a seal engraved on it, or
ornamented with a device resembling a seal; a signet ring.
--Shak.
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great seal
(wn) | great seal
n 1: the principal seal of a government, symbolizing authority
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Keeper of the great seal
(gcide) | Keeper \Keep"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which,
holds or has possession of anything.
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2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a
prison and the charge of prisoners.
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3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
anything; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of
a gate, etc.; the keeper of attached property; hence, one
who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver.
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The Lord is thy keeper. --Ps. cxxi. 6.
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4. One who remains or keeps in a place or position.
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Discreet; chaste; keepers at home. --Titus ii. 5.
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5. A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object
in place; as:
(a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock
protrudes, when shot.
(b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger.
(c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end
of the strap.
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6. A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good
keeper. Hence: Anything perishable that remains in good
condition longer than usual. -- Downing.
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7. An iron bar that is placed on the poles of a horseshoe
magnet, and held in place there by the magnetic force, to
preserve the strength of the magnet when not in use.
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Keeper of the forest (O. Eng. Law), an officer who had the
principal government of all things relating to the forest.
Keeper of the great seal, a high officer of state, who has
custody of the great seal. The office is now united with
that of lord chancellor. [Eng.]
Keeper of the King's conscience, the lord chancellor; -- a
name given when the chancellor was an ecclesiastic. [Eng.]
Keeper of the privy seal (styled also lord privy seal), a
high officer of state, through whose hands pass all
charters, pardons, etc., before they come to the great
seal. He is a privy councillor, and was formerly called
clerk of the privy seal. [Eng.]
Keeper of a magnet, a piece of iron which connects the two
poles, for the purpose of keeping the magnetic power
undiminished; an armature; called also keeper.
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To put the great seal into commission
(gcide) | Commission \Com*mis"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. commissio. See
Commit.]
1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of
perpetrating.
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Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a
certain degree of hardness. --South.
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2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a
trust shall be executed.
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3. The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons;
a trust; a charge.
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4. A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain
powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the
performance of certain duties.
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Let him see our commission. --Shak.
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5. A certificate conferring military or naval rank and
authority; as, a colonel's commission.
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6. A company of persons joined in the performance of some
duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate
commerce commission.
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A commission was at once appointed to examine into
the matter. --Prescott.
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7. (Com.)
(a) The acting under authority of, or on account of,
another.
(b) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have
three commissions for the city.
(c) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent
for transacting business for another; as, a commission
of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere.
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Commission of array. (Eng. Hist.) See under Array.
Commission of bankruptcy, a commission appointing and
empowering certain persons to examine into the facts
relative to an alleged bankruptcy, and to secure the
bankrupt's lands and effects for the creditors.
Commission of lunacy, a commission authorizing an inquiry
whether a person is a lunatic or not.
Commission merchant, one who buys or sells goods on
commission, as the agent of others, receiving a rate per
cent as his compensation.
Commission officer or Commissioned officer, (Mil.), one
who has a commission, in distinction from a
noncommissioned or warrant officer.
Commission of the peace, a commission under the great seal,
constituting one or more persons justices of the peace.
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on commission, paid partly or completely by collecting as a
commision a portion of the sales that one makes.
out of commission, not operating properly; out of order.
To put a vessel into commission (Naut.), to equip and man a
government vessel, and send it out on service after it has
been laid up; esp., the formal act of taking command of a
vessel for service, hoisting the flag, reading the orders,
etc.
To put a vessel out of commission (Naut.), to detach the
officers and crew and retire it from active service,
temporarily or permanently.
To put the great seal into commission or {To put the
Treasury into commission}, to place it in the hands of a
commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the
ordinary administration, as between the going out of one
lord keeper and the accession of another. [Eng.]
The United States Christian Commission, an organization
among the people of the North, during the Civil War, which
afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers, and
performed services of a religious character in the field
and in hospitals.
The United States Sanitary Commission, an organization
formed by the people of the North to cooperate with and
supplement the medical department of the Union armies
during the Civil War.
Syn: Charge; warrant; authority; mandate; office; trust;
employment.
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great seal
(wn) | great seal
n 1: the principal seal of a government, symbolizing authority
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great seal of the united states
(wn) | Great Seal of the United States
n 1: the seal of the United States government |
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