imperial : Idioms & Phrases


british imperial system

  • noun a system of weights and measures based on the foot and pound and second and pint
    British system; English system.
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Crown imperial

  • noun Eurasian herb with a cluster of leaves and orange-red bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
    Fritillaria imperialis.
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  • . (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary.
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crown-imperial

Crown"-im*pe"ri*al noun
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  1. (Bot.) A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.
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imperial beard

  • noun a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III
    imperial.
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Imperial bushel, gallon

  • etc. See Bushel, Gallon, etc.
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imperial capacity unit

  • noun a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet
    British capacity unit.
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Imperial chamber

  • the, the sovereign court of the old German empire.
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Imperial city

  • under the first German empire, a city having no head but the emperor.
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imperial decree

  • noun a decree issued by a sovereign ruler
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Imperial diet

  • an assembly of all the states of the German empire.
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Imperial drill

  • . (Manuf.) See under 8th Drill.
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Imperial eagle

  • . (Zoöl.) See Eagle.
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imperial elephant

  • noun largest known mammoth; of America
    imperial elephant; Archidiskidon imperator.
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imperial gallon

  • noun a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters
    gallon; congius.
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Imperial green

  • . See Paris green, under Green.
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Imperial guard

  • the royal guard instituted by Napoleon I.
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imperial japanese morning glory

  • noun hybrid from Ipomoea nil
    Ipomoea imperialis.
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imperial mammoth

  • noun largest known mammoth; of America
    imperial elephant; Archidiskidon imperator.
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imperial moth

  • noun large American moth having yellow wings with purplish or brownish markings; larvae feed on e.g. maple and pine trees
    Eacles imperialis.
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Imperial weights and measures

  • the standards legalized by the British Parliament.
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