- One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of
Court. - An alderman of a corporation. - A member of a court or council. - One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
- One of those who stand in the second rank of honors,
immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge,
England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes.
- Cowboy - An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or
peevishness. - One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the
University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their
rank, senior wrangler, second wrangler, third wrangler, etc. Cf.
Optime.