- An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below
a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a
shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.
- The staff of an army, including all officers above the
rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters,
commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians,
signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants
of the above officers.
- British nobleman - Rank above baron - Six Romans have small tally for nobleman - An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count,
or earl; the sheriff of the county. - A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an
earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See
Peer, n., 3.