'There might be,' he reported, 'a myllion of gold secretly conveyed aboard.'
It doesn't list all the connotations that the term may have in various contexts: it specifies the designation of the term, or one of the designations of the term.
The derbendci, some two thousand families of Rumelia, acted as guards of mountain passes, bridges, and other strategic locations in exchange for tax relief and represent a transition from real fighters to auxiliary forces.
I have long observed, as I doubt not have many of you, that the condition here described is often alleviated in the most striking manner by the use of exclusively liquid nourishment—such as milk or milk-gruel, given in small portions sub-continuously, or sippingly, as it were, throughout the waking hours—the patient being never permitted to take a distinct meal, nor a particle of solid food.