n. [ F. armistice, fr. (an assumed word) L. armistitium; arma arms + stare, statum (combining form, -stitum), to stand still. ] A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce. [ 1913 Webster ]

The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. --
Chief Justice of the United States, the presiding judge of the Supreme Court, and Highest judicial officer of the republic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of chief justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes. The Century. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ NL. cysticercus, fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; bladder + ke`rkos tail: cf. F. cysticerque. ] (Zool.) The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ These larvae live in the tissues of various living animals, and, when swallowed by a suitable carnivorous animal, develop into adult tapeworms in the intestine. See Measles, 4, Tapeworm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. injustice, L. injustitia. See In- not, and Justice, and cf. Unjust. ] 1. Lack of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

If this people [ the Athenians ] resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cunning men can be guilty of a thousand injustices without being discovered, or at least without being punished. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Interstices [ L. interstitium a pause, interval; inter between + sistere to set, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. interstice. See Stand. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between the reception of the various degrees of orders. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nonobservance of the interstices . . . is a sin. Addis & Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Provided with interstices; having interstices between; situated at intervals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. justitia, fr. justus just. See Just, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Justice and judgment are the haditation of thy throne. Ps. ixxxix. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, . . .
I have no relish of them. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and in conduct; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit; honesty; fidelity; impartiality; as, the justice of a description or of a judgment; historical justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The rendering to every one his due or right; just treatment; requital of desert; merited reward or punishment; that which is due to one's conduct or motives. [ 1913 Webster ]

This even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice of a claim. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This title is given to the judges of the common law courts in England and in the United States, and extends to judicial officers and magistrates of every grade. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bed of justice. See under Bed. --
Chief justice. See in the Vocabulary. --
Justice of the peace (Law), a judicial officer or subordinate magistrate appointed for the conservation of the peace in a specified district, with other incidental powers specified in his commission. In the United States a justice of the peace has jurisdiction to adjudicate certain minor cases, commit offenders, officiate at marriages, etc.; abbreviated JP.

Syn. -- Equity; law; right; rectitude; honesty; integrity; uprightness; fairness; impartiality. -- Justice, Equity, Law. Justice and equity are the same; but human laws, though designed to secure justice, are of necessity imperfect, and hence what is strictly legal is at times far from being equitable or just. Here a court of equity comes in to redress the grievances. It does so, as distinguished from courts of law; and as the latter are often styled courts of justice, some have fancied that there is in this case a conflict between justice and equity. The real conflict is against the working of the law; this a court of equity brings into accordance with the claims of justice. It would be an unfortunate use of language which should lead any one to imagine he might have justice on his side while practicing iniquity (inequity). Justice, Rectitude. Rectitude, in its widest sense, is one of the most comprehensive words in our language, denoting absolute conformity to the rule of right in principle and practice. Justice refers more especially to the carrying out of law, and has been considered by moralists as of three kinds: (1) Commutative justice, which gives every man his own property, including things pledged by promise. (2) Distributive justice, which gives every man his exact deserts. (3) General justice, which carries out all the ends of law, though not in every case through the precise channels of commutative or distributive justice; as we see often done by a parent or a ruler in his dealings with those who are subject to his control. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To administer justice to. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Liable to trial in a court of justice. [ Obs. ] Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Justiceship. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who administers justice; a judge. [ Obs. ] “Some upright justicer.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or dignity of a justice. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. luna moon + sistere to cause to stand. Cf. Solstice. ] (Astron.) The farthest point of the moon's northing and southing, in its monthly revolution. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. my`stax the upper lip, also, the mustache + kh^tos a whale. ] (Zool.) Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A suborder including baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; and humpbacks.
Syn. -- suborder Mysticeti. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.[ L. solstitium; sol the sun + sistere to cause to stand, akin to stare to stand: cf. F. solstice. See Solar, a., Stand, v. i. ] 1. A stopping or standing still of the sun. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) (a) The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion. (b) The time of the sun's passing the solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21. See Illust. in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of justice; injustice. [ Obs. ] Hales. [ 1913 Webster ]