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Definition of license

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License (n.) 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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Permission :: Permission (n.) The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.

Chopboat :: Chopboat (n.) A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels.

Presume :: Presume (v. i.) To venture, go, or act, by an assumption of leave or authority not granted; to go beyond what is warranted by the circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take liberties; -- often with on or upon before the ground of confidence..

Swingdevil :: Swing (n.) Free course; unrestrained liberty or license; tendency.

License :: License (v. t.) To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach..

License :: License (n.) 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..

Allowance :: Allowance (n.) License; indulgence.

Mark :: Mark (n.) A license of reprisals. See Marque.

Entry :: Entry (n.) The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods. See Enter, v. t., 8, and Entrance, n., 5..

Badger :: Badger (n.) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.

Allow :: Allow (v. t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent..

Passport :: Passport (n.) A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct.

Minister :: Minister (n.) One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.

Permit :: Permit (n.) Warrant; license; leave; permission; specifically, a written license or permission given to a person or persons having authority; as, a permit to land goods subject to duty..

Coal-meter :: Coal-meter (n.) A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter.

Non Obstante :: Non obstante () 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..

License :: License (n.) The document granting such permission.

Plenipotentiary :: Plenipotentiary (a.) Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers..

Peddle :: Peddle (v. i.) To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license..

Licensable :: Licensable (a.) That can be licensed.