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A clause in old English statutes and letters patent, importing a license from the crown to do a thing notwithstanding any statute to the contrary. This dispensing power was abolished by the Bill of Rights.
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That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.
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One who gives a license; as, a licenser of the press.
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The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses.
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Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
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The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
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Using the low and indecent language of the meaner sort of people, or such as only the license of buffoons can warrant; as, a scurrilous fellow.
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Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence.
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A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.
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A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals.
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Having a license; permitted or authorized by license; as, a licensed victualer; a licensed traffic.
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To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.
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The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.
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A license of reprisals. See Marque.
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Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.
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One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
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Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.
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Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors.
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The person to whom a license is given.
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