(UK, historical) A board of officials responsible for auditing the accounts of the royal household, making royal travel arrangements, and sitting as a court upon offences committed within the verge of the palace. More recently its jurisdiction was limited to alcohol sales and gambling licences, and it was abolished in 2004.

The strip of land that lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, and is the boundary between the continents of Africa and Asia.

Of a building, especially a residence, from the plan of a proposed building before it is actually built.

(archaic) A lawyer, a lawman.

(UK, historical) A senior rank of the Royal Navy, immediately outranked by the Admiral of the Fleet; abolished as a promotional rank in 1864.

plural of Admiral of the Red

To wish someone well; to hope for good things for someone.

Synonym of Blaschko's lines

(slang, archaic) A long pipe for smoking; a churchwarden pipe.

The official name of The Maldives.