Mardi gras: alternatives and connections

Chief physician; -- a term applied, on the continent of Europe, to the first or body physician of princes and to the first physician o…

An agent or factor; a commission merchant.

The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer o…

The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some…

Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.

Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide.

A deed; an action; a gest.

A merrymaking; noisy festivity.

The last and worst of the four ages of the world; -- considered to have begun B. C. 3102, and to last 432,000 years.

of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.

One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound them…

An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expres…

The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court…

The fore part of the night last past; the previous evening.

Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable but one of a word.

That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.