- A chief judge in the Turkish empire, so named
originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers,
who are now tried only by their own officers.
- An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified
teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts
(thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations;
toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in
the head of a toad.