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Imperial
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(a.) Of or pertaining to an empire, or to an emperor; as, an imperial government; imperial authority or edict.
(2):
(n.) A gold coin of Russia worth ten rubles, or about eight dollars.
(3):
(n.) A kind of fine cloth brought into England from Greece. or other Eastern countries, in the Middle Ages.
(4):
(n.) An outside seat on a diligence.
(5):
(n.) A luggage case on the top of a coach.
(6):
(n.) The tuft of hair on a man's lower lip and chin; - so called from the style of beard of Napoleon III.
(7):
(a.) Of superior or unusual size or excellence; as, imperial paper; imperial tea, etc.
(8):
(a.) Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme.
(9):
(n.) Anything of unusual size or excellence, as a large decanter, a kind of large photograph, a large sheet of drowing, printing, or writing paper, etc.
(10):
(n.) A game at cards differing from piquet in some minor details, and in having a trump; also, any one of several combinations of cards which score in this game.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Imperial'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/i/imperial.html. 1828.
