kings (or queens) messenger

An official employed under an English Secretary of State to carry dispatches at home or abroad. *king's-silver, s . Money paid to the king in the English Court of Common Pleas for a license granted to a man to levy a fine of lands, tenements, or hereditaments to another person; and this must have been compounded according to the value of the land, in the alienation office, before the fine would pa . king's-spear, s. carapace, with its convexity forward. Behind this is an hexagonal portion, formed by the coalescence of the abdominal segments, the whole terminated posteriorly by a long spine-like tail. Above, the body is convex; beneath, it is concave, the feet being lodged in the cavity. The king crabs are the only representatives of the order and subdivision of Crustacea called Xyphosura. They are found in the seas and islands of both the Asiatic and American shores of the Pacific Ocean. (LIMULUS.] IMG:content-0251.png:[blocks in formation] "Pansies, lilies, kingoups, daisies: Let them live upon their praises." Words worth: To the Small Celandine. [A king'-dom, *kyng-dom, *king-dome, s. corrupt. of M. Eng. kinedom, from A. S. cynedom =a kingdom, from cyne =royal; suff. -dóm.J I. Ordinary Language : 1. The dominion or territory under the authority or rule of a king; the dominion of a king or monarch. "The great and rich king do me of Granada."- Bacon : Henry VII . , p. 106. 2. The position or attributes of a king; kingly or sovereign power or authority; supreme rule or power. "My kingdom stands on brittle gla ." Shakesp.: Richard II ., iv. 2. 3. A region, a territory, a tract, a realm. "The wat'ry kingdom is no bar To stop the foreign spirits." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , ii. 7. II. Nat. Hist.: The designation of the highest and most comprehensive of the divisions into which number, the Animal, the Vegetable, and the Mineral Bot.: Asphodel us alb us . king's (or queen's) stores, s. pl . British naval natural objects are arranged. They are three in or military stores. miraculous power had been experimentally demonstrated and the evangelists gone forth, it had arrived (Matt. xii. 28; Luke x. 11). It was to advance from small beginnings, like a seed which germinates, grows, and bears fruit (Mark iv. 26-32). Commencing on earth, its full establishment was to be at the conclusion of the present age in the other world (Matt. xii. 24 to 50; Luke xiii. 28, 29, xxii. 16, 18). Before one could enter into the kingdom of God he must be born again (John iii. 3). The expre ion "kingdom of heaven" is the common one in Matthew, while kingdom of God is frequent in Mark and Luke. 2. The laws by which this spiritual kingdom is governed; God's dealings with His people. (Matt. xxii. 2-14.)