Definition of on

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On (prep.) By virtue of; with the pledge of; -- denoting a pledge or engagement, and put before the thing pledged; as, he affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honor..

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Register :: Register (n.) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet..
Yeoman :: Yeoman (n.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores..
Retrospection :: Retrospection (n.) The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past..
Misericorde :: Misericorde (n.) Compassion; pity; mercy.
Drawing :: Drawing (n.) The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
Planting :: Planting (n.) The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc..
Tug :: Tug (n.) A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort..
Morganatic :: Morganatic (a.) Pertaining to, in the manner of, or designating, a kind of marriage, called also left-handed marriage, between a man of superior rank and a woman of inferior, in which it is stipulated that neither the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the possessions of her husband..
Suspend :: Suspend (n.) To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act; to suspend the rules of a legislative body..
Web :: Web (n.) Fig.: Tissue; texture; complicated fabrication.
Stepchild :: Stepbrother (n.) A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another..
Headnote :: Headnote (n.) A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court..
Probate :: Probate (n.) Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved..
Collocution :: Collocution (n.) A speaking or conversing together; conference; mutual discourse.
Myth :: Myth (n.) A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable..
Safe-conduct :: Safe-conduct (n.) a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety..
Blennorrhea :: Blennorrhea (n.) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus.
Collyrium :: Collyrium (n.) An application to the eye, usually an eyewater..
Corruption :: Corruption (n.) The product of corruption; putrid matter.
Divisive :: Divisive (a.) Indicating division or distribution.
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