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slovo definícia duty (mass) duty - poplatok, clo, povinnosť, služba duty (msasasci) duty - hollow duty (encz) duty,clo n: duty (encz) duty,daň n: RNDr. Pavel Piskač duty (encz) duty,daňová povinnost n: Mgr. Dita Gálová duty (encz) duty,dávka n: Mgr. Dita Gálová duty (encz) duty,poplatek n: Zdeněk Brož duty (encz) duty,povinnost n: duty (encz) duty,služba n: duty (encz) duty,střída n: [el.] parkmaj duty (encz) duty,úkol n: Zdeněk Brož Duty (gcide) Duty \Du"ty\, n.; pl. Duties. [From Due.] 1. That which is due; payment. [Obs. as signifying a material thing.] [1913 Webster] When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster] 2. That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory. [1913 Webster] Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty. [1913 Webster] With records sweet of duties done. --Keble. [1913 Webster] To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. --C. J. Smith. [1913 Webster] 4. Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage. "My duty to you." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. (Engin.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States). [1913 Webster] 7. (Com.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods. [1913 Webster] Note: An impost on land or other real estate, and on the stock of farmers, is not called a duty, but a direct tax. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] Ad valorem duty, a duty which is graded according to the cost, or market value, of the article taxed. See {Ad valorem}. Specific duty, a duty of a specific sum assessed on an article without reference to its value or market. On duty, actually engaged in the performance of one's assigned task. [1913 Webster] duty (wn) duty n 1: the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr [syn: duty, responsibility, obligation] 2: work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons; "the duties of the job" 3: a government tax on imports or exports; "they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries" [syn: duty, tariff] duty (devil) DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. Sir Lavender Portwine, in favor at court, Was wroth at his master, who'd kissed Lady Port. His anger provoked him to take the king's head, But duty prevailed, and he took the king's bread, Instead. G.J. DUTY (bouvier) DUTY, natural law. A human action which is, exactly conformable to the laws which require us to obey them. 2. It differs from a legal obligation, because a duty cannot always be enforced by the law; it is our duty, for example, to be temperate in eating, but we are under no legal obligation to be so; we ought to love our neighbors, but no law obliges us to love them. 3. Duties may be considered in the relation of man towards God, towards himself, and towards mankind. 1. We are bound to obey the will of God as far as we are able to discover it, because he is the sovereign Lord of the universe who made and governs all things by his almighty power, and infinite wisdom. The general name of this duty is piety: which consists in entertaining just opinions concerning him, and partly in such affections towards him, and such, worship of him, as is suitable to these opinions. 4.-2. A man has a duty to perform towards himself; he is bound by the law of nature to protect his life and his limbs; it is his duty, too, to avoid all intemperance in eating and drinking, and in the unlawful gratification of all his other appetites. 5.-3. He has duties to perform towards others. He is bound to do to others the same justice which he would have a right to expect them to do to him.

podobné slovo definícia dutyfree (mass) duty-free - bezcolný naduty (msasasci) naduty - self-important above and beyond the call of duty (encz) above and beyond the call of duty,více než je očekáváno Zdeněk Brož bounden duty (encz) bounden duty,svatá povinnost civic duty (encz) civic duty, n: countervailing duty (encz) countervailing duty, n: customs duty (encz) customs duty,clo Zdeněk Brož customs duty /import duty/ (encz) customs duty /import duty/,clo /dovozní/ [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač customs duty bill (encz) customs duty bill, death duty (encz) death duty, n: double duty (encz) double duty, duty assignment (encz) duty assignment, n: duty calls (encz) duty calls, duty paid (encz) duty paid,procleno Zdeněk Brož duty period (encz) duty period, n: duty stamp (encz) duty stamp,kolek duty tour (encz) duty tour, n: duty-bound (encz) duty-bound,morálně zavázán Zdeněk Brož duty-free (encz) duty-free,bez cla [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskačduty-free,prostý cla entry duty (encz) entry duty, estate duty (encz) estate duty, export duty (encz) export duty,vývozní clo Zdeněk Brož fatigue duty (encz) fatigue duty, n: fiduciary duty (encz) fiduciary duty, n: filial duty (encz) filial duty, n: free of duty /duty-free/ (encz) free of duty /duty-free/,bezcelní [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač guard duty (encz) guard duty, n: heavy duty (encz) heavy duty,pro velké zatížení n: Zdeněk Brožheavy duty,těžký provoz Zdeněk Brožheavy duty,velké zatížení n: Zdeněk Brož heavy-duty (encz) heavy-duty,mající velkou výdrž Zdeněk Brož import duty (encz) import duty,dovozní clo Zdeněk Brož jury duty (encz) jury duty,civilní povinnost sloužit v porotě Zdeněk Brož legal duty (encz) legal duty, n: light-duty (encz) light-duty, adj: line duty (encz) line duty, n: line of duty (encz) line of duty, n: neglect of duty (encz) neglect of duty, n: off duty (encz) off duty, adj: off-duty (encz) off-duty, adj: on duty (encz) on duty,na stráži adj: Petr Menšíkon duty,ve službě Rostislav Svoboda on-duty (encz) on-duty,na stráži adj: Petr Menšík point duty (encz) point duty, n: sea-duty (encz) sea-duty, n: sense of duty (encz) sense of duty, n: sentry duty (encz) sentry duty, n: shipboard duty (encz) shipboard duty, n: shore duty (encz) shore duty, n: stamp duty (encz) stamp duty, n: subject to customs duty (encz) subject to customs duty,podléhající clu tariff (duty) (encz) tariff (duty),tarif (clo) [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač the call of duty (encz) the call of duty, tonnage duty (encz) tonnage duty, n: tour of duty (encz) tour of duty, n: Ad valorem duty (gcide) Duty \Du"ty\, n.; pl. Duties. [From Due.] 1. That which is due; payment. [Obs. as signifying a material thing.] [1913 Webster] When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster] 2. That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory. [1913 Webster] Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty. [1913 Webster] With records sweet of duties done. --Keble. [1913 Webster] To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. --C. J. Smith. [1913 Webster] 4. Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage. "My duty to you." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. (Engin.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States). [1913 Webster] 7. (Com.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods. [1913 Webster] Note: An impost on land or other real estate, and on the stock of farmers, is not called a duty, but a direct tax. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] Ad valorem duty, a duty which is graded according to the cost, or market value, of the article taxed. See {Ad valorem}. Specific duty, a duty of a specific sum assessed on an article without reference to its value or market. On duty, actually engaged in the performance of one's assigned task. [1913 Webster] Duty (gcide) Duty \Du"ty\, n.; pl. Duties. [From Due.] 1. That which is due; payment. [Obs. as signifying a material thing.] [1913 Webster] When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster] 2. That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory. [1913 Webster] Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty. [1913 Webster] With records sweet of duties done. --Keble. [1913 Webster] To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. --C. J. Smith. [1913 Webster] 4. Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage. "My duty to you." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. (Engin.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States). [1913 Webster] 7. (Com.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods. [1913 Webster] Note: An impost on land or other real estate, and on the stock of farmers, is not called a duty, but a direct tax. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] Ad valorem duty, a duty which is graded according to the cost, or market value, of the article taxed. See {Ad valorem}. Specific duty, a duty of a specific sum assessed on an article without reference to its value or market. On duty, actually engaged in the performance of one's assigned task. [1913 Webster] duty-free (gcide) nontaxable \nontaxable\ adj. Not subject to taxation; -- of goods imported into a country or sold at retail outlets; as, most laws imposing sales taxes make food nontaxable. Opposite of taxable. [Narrower terms: duty-free; tax-exempt, tax-free; unratable; {untaxed ] Also See: exempt. [WordNet 1.5] Fatigue duty (gcide) Fatigue \Fa*tigue"\, n. [F., fr. fatiguer to fatigue, L. fatigare; cf. L. affatim sufficiently.] 1. Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength. [1913 Webster] 2. The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains. [1913 Webster] Fatigue call (Mil.), a summons, by bugle or drum, to perform fatigue duties. Fatigue dress, the working dress of soldiers. Fatigue duty (Mil.), labor exacted from soldiers aside from the use of arms. --Farrow. Fatigue party, a party of soldiers on fatigue duty. [1913 Webster] Guard duty (gcide) Guard \Guard\, n. [OF. guarde, F. garde; of German origin; cf. OHG. wart, warto, one who watches, warta a watching, Goth. wardja watchman. See Guard, v. t.] [1913 Webster] 1. One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection. [1913 Webster] His greatness was no guard to bar heaven's shaft. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position; a watch; a sentinel. [1913 Webster] The guard which kept the door of the king's house. --Kings xiv. 27. [1913 Webster] 3. One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] 4. Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss; as: (a) That part of a sword hilt which protects the hand. (b) Ornamental lace or hem protecting the edge of a garment. (c) A chain or cord for fastening a watch to one's person or dress. (d) A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel. (e) An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision. (f) A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger. (g) (Bookbinding) An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled. [1913 Webster] 5. A posture of defense in fencing, and in bayonet and saber exercise. [1913 Webster] 6. An expression or admission intended to secure against objections or censure. [1913 Webster] They have expressed themselves with as few guards and restrictions as I. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster] 7. Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard. [1913 Webster] 8. (Zool.) The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites. [1913 Webster] Note: Guard is often used adjectively or in combination; as, guard boat or guardboat; guardroom or guard room; guard duty. [1913 Webster] Advanced guard, Coast guard, etc. See under Advanced, Coast, etc. Grand guard (Mil.), one of the posts of the second line belonging to a system of advance posts of an army. --Mahan. Guard boat. (a) A boat appointed to row the rounds among ships of war in a harbor, to see that their officers keep a good lookout. (b) A boat used by harbor authorities to enforce the observance of quarantine regulations. Guard cells (Bot.), the bordering cells of stomates; they are crescent-shaped and contain chlorophyll. Guard chamber, a guardroom. Guard detail (Mil.), men from a company regiment etc., detailed for guard duty. Guard duty (Mil.), the duty of watching patrolling, etc., performed by a sentinel or sentinels. Guard lock (Engin.), a tide lock at the mouth of a dock or basin. Guard of honor (Mil.), a guard appointed to receive or to accompany eminent persons. Guard rail (Railroads), a rail placed on the inside of a main rail, on bridges, at switches, etc., as a safeguard against derailment. Guard ship, a war vessel appointed to superintend the marine affairs in a harbor, and also, in the English service, to receive seamen till they can be distributed among their respective ships. Life guard (Mil.), a body of select troops attending the person of a prince or high officer. Off one's guard, in a careless state; inattentive; unsuspicious of danger. On guard, serving in the capacity of a guard; doing duty as a guard or sentinel; watching. On one's guard, in a watchful state; alert; vigilant. To mount guard (Mil.), to go on duty as a guard or sentinel. To run the guard, to pass the watch or sentinel without leave. Syn: Defense; shield; protection; safeguard; convoy; escort; care; attention; watch; heed. [1913 Webster] Legacy duty (gcide) Legacy \Leg"a*cy\ (l[e^]g"[.a]*s[y^]), n.; pl. Legacies (-s[i^]z). [L. (assumed) legatia, for legatum, from legare to appoint by last will, to bequeath as a legacy, to depute: cf. OF. legat legacy. See Legate.] 1. A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease. [1913 Webster] 2. A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like. [1913 Webster] My legacy and message wherefore I am sent into the world. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster] He came and told his legacy. --Chapman. [1913 Webster] Legacy duty, a tax paid to government on legacies. --Wharton. Legacy hunter, one who flatters and courts any one for the sake of a legacy. [1913 Webster] light-duty (gcide) light-duty \light-duty\ adj. not designed for heavy or demanding work; as, a light-duty detergent. Opposite of heavy-duty. [WordNet 1.5] off-duty (gcide) off-duty \off-duty\ adj. not performing or available for duties at the given moment; as, an off-duty policeman. Oposite of on-duty, working, and on-the-job. [prenominal] Syn: off duty(predicate). [WordNet 1.5] On duty (gcide) Duty \Du"ty\, n.; pl. Duties. [From Due.] 1. That which is due; payment. [Obs. as signifying a material thing.] [1913 Webster] When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster] 2. That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory. [1913 Webster] Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty. [1913 Webster] With records sweet of duties done. --Keble. [1913 Webster] To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. --C. J. Smith. [1913 Webster] 4. Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage. "My duty to you." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. (Engin.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States). [1913 Webster] 7. (Com.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods. [1913 Webster] Note: An impost on land or other real estate, and on the stock of farmers, is not called a duty, but a direct tax. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] Ad valorem duty, a duty which is graded according to the cost, or market value, of the article taxed. See {Ad valorem}. Specific duty, a duty of a specific sum assessed on an article without reference to its value or market. On duty, actually engaged in the performance of one's assigned task. [1913 Webster] on-duty (gcide) on-duty \on-duty\ adj. performing or available for duties; as, her on-duty hours were 11p.m. to 7 a.m.. Opposite of off-duty. [prenominal] Syn: on duty(predicate). [WordNet 1.5] Probate duty (gcide) Probate \Pro"bate\, a. Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record. [1913 Webster] Probate Court, or Court of Probate, a court for the probate of wills. Probate duty, a government tax on property passing by will. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] Specific duty (gcide) specific \spe*cif"ic\ (sp[-e]*s[i^]f"[i^]k), a. [F. sp['e]cifique, or NL. spesificus; L. species a particular sort or kind + facere to make. Cf. specify.] 1. Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice. [1913 Webster] Specific difference is that primary attribute which distinguishes each species from one another. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster] 2. Specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement. [1913 Webster] 3. (Med.) Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaptation, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria. [1913 Webster] In fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of the science. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] Specific character (Nat. Hist.), a characteristic or characteristics distinguishing one species from every other species of the same genus. Specific disease (Med.) (a) A disease which produces a determinate definite effect upon the blood and tissues or upon some special tissue. (b) A disease which is itself uniformly produced by a definite and peculiar poison or organism. Specific duty. (Com.) See under Duty. Specific gravity. (Physics) See under Gravity. Specific heat (Physics), the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of a body one degree, taking as the unit of measure the quantity required to raise the same weight of water from zero to one degree; thus, the specific heat of mercury is 0.033, that of water being 1.000. Specific inductive capacity (Physics), the effect of a dielectric body in producing static electric induction as compared with that of some other body or bodies referred to as a standard. Specific legacy (Law), a bequest of a particular thing, as of a particular animal or piece of furniture, specified and distinguished from all others. --Wharton. --Burrill. Specific name (Nat. Hist.), the name which, appended to the name of the genus, constitutes the distinctive name of the species; -- originally applied by Linnaeus to the essential character of the species, or the essential difference. The present specific name he at first called the trivial name. Specific performance (Law), the peformance of a contract or agreement as decreed by a court of equity. [1913 Webster]Duty \Du"ty\, n.; pl. Duties. [From Due.] 1. That which is due; payment. [Obs. as signifying a material thing.] [1913 Webster] When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster] 2. That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory. [1913 Webster] Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] 3. Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty. [1913 Webster] With records sweet of duties done. --Keble. [1913 Webster] To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. --C. J. Smith. [1913 Webster] 4. Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage. "My duty to you." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. (Engin.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States). [1913 Webster] 7. (Com.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods. [1913 Webster] Note: An impost on land or other real estate, and on the stock of farmers, is not called a duty, but a direct tax. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] Ad valorem duty, a duty which is graded according to the cost, or market value, of the article taxed. See {Ad valorem}. Specific duty, a duty of a specific sum assessed on an article without reference to its value or market. On duty, actually engaged in the performance of one's assigned task. [1913 Webster] Stamp duty (gcide) Stamp \Stamp\, n. 1. The act of stamping, as with the foot. [1913 Webster] 2. The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die. [1913 Webster] 'T is gold so pure It can not bear the stamp without alloy. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression. [1913 Webster] That sacred name gives ornament and grace, And, like his stamp, makes basest metals pass. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. That which is marked; a thing stamped. [1913 Webster] Hanging a golden stamp about their necks. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. [F. estampe, of German origin. See Stamp, v. t.] A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] At Venice they put out very curious stamps of the several edifices which are most famous for their beauty and magnificence. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 6. An official mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange. [1913 Webster] 7. Hence: A stamped or printed device, usually paper, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a tax stamp; a receipt stamp, etc. [1913 Webster] 8. An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure. [1913 Webster] 9. A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin. [1913 Webster] Of the same stamp is that which is obtruded on us, that an adamant suspends the attraction of the loadstone. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] 10. Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp. [1913 Webster] A soldier of this season's stamp. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 11. A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or beating. [1913 Webster] 12. A half-penny. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] 13. pl. Money, esp. paper money. [Slang, U.S.] [1913 Webster] Stamp act, an act of the British Parliament [1765] imposing a duty on all paper, vellum, and parchment used in the American colonies, and declaring all writings on unstamped materials to be null and void. Stamp collector, (a) an officer who receives or collects stamp duties. (b) one who collects postage or other stamps, as an avocation or for investment; a philatelist. Stamp duty, a duty, or tax, imposed on paper and parchment used for certain writings, as deeds, conveyances, etc., the evidence of the payment of the duty or tax being a stamp. [Eng.] Stamp hammer, a hammer, worked by power, which rises and falls vertically, like a stamp in a stamp mill. Stamp head, a heavy mass of metal, forming the head or lower end of a bar, which is lifted and let fall, in a stamp mill. Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps; also, a machine for stamping ore. Stamp note, a stamped certificate from a customhouse officer, which allows goods to be received by the captain of a ship as freight. [Eng.] Stamp office, an office for the issue of stamps and the reception of stamp duties. [1913 Webster] Succession duty (gcide) Succession \Suc*ces"sion\, n. [L. successio: cf. F. succession. See Succeed.] 1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. [1913 Webster] 2. A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology. [1913 Webster] He was in the succession to an earldom. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 3. An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent. "A long succession must ensue." --Milton. [1913 Webster] 4. The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne. [1913 Webster] You have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The animosity of these factions did not really arise from the dispute about the succession. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 5. The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order. [1913 Webster] 6. The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir. [R.] --Milton. [1913 Webster] Apostolical succession. (Theol.) See under Apostolical. Succession duty, a tax imposed on every succession to property, according to its value and the relation of the person who succeeds to the previous owner. [Eng.] Succession of crops. (Agric.) See Rotation of crops, under Rotation. [1913 Webster]