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Settle :: Settle (n.) A bench; especially, a bench with a high back..

Tribunal :: Tribunal (n.) The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.

Bench :: Bench (v. t.) To furnish with benches.

Bencher :: Bencher (n.) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.

Bench :: Bench (v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice.

King''s Bench :: King's Bench () Formerly, the highest court of common law in England; -- so called because the king used to sit there in person. It consisted of a chief justice and four puisne, or junior, justices. During the reign of a queen it was called the Queen's Bench. Its jurisdiction was transferred by the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875 to the high court of justice created by that legislation..

Bench :: Bench (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

Divan :: Divan (n.) A saloon or hall where a council is held, in Oriental countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room..

Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..

Imbenching :: Imbenching (n.) A raised work like a bench.

Bencher :: Bencher (n.) An alderman of a corporation.

Seat :: Seat (n.) The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like..

Crown Office :: Crown office () The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases..

Groundling :: Groundling (n.) A spectator in the pit of a theater, which formerly was on the ground, and without floor or benches..

Benched :: Benched (imp. & p. p.) of Benc.

Quinquereme :: Quinquereme (n.) A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme..

Drosky :: Drosky (n.) A low, four-wheeled, open carriage, used in Russia, consisting of a kind of long, narrow bench, on which the passengers ride as on a saddle, with their feet reaching nearly to the ground. Other kinds of vehicles are now so called, esp. a kind of victoria drawn by one or two horses, and used as a public carriage in German cities..

Church-bench :: Church-bench (n.) A seat in the porch of a church.

Bink :: Bink (n.) A bench.

Exigenter :: Exigenter (n.) An officer in the Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas whose duty it was make out exigents. The office in now abolished.

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