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n. [ L. halieuticus pertaining to fishing, Gr. "alieytiko`s.] A treatise upon fish or the art of fishing; ichthyology. [1913 Webster]

n. [ F., OF. also liu, leu, lou, fr. L. locus place. See Local, Locus. ] Place; room; stead; -- used only in the phrase in lieu of, that is, instead of. [ 1913 Webster ]

The plan of extortion had been adopted in lieu of the scheme of confiscation. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The office, rank, or commission, of a lieutenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The body of lieutenants or subordinates. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The list of the lieutenancy of our metropolis. Felton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. lieu place + tenant holding, p. pr. of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum tenens. ] 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lawful magistrate, who is the vicegerent or lieutenant of God. Abp. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) A commissioned officer in the army, next below a captain. (b) A commissioned officer in the British navy, in rank next below a commander. (c) A commissioned officer in the United States navy, in rank next below a lieutenant commander. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Lieutenant is often used, either adjectively or in hyphened compounds, to denote an officer, in rank next below another, especially when the duties of the higher officer may devolve upon the lower one; as, lieutenant general, or lieutenant-general; lieutenant colonel, or lieutenant-colonel; lieutenant governor, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deputy lieutenant, the title of any one of the deputies or assistants of the lord lieutenant of a county. [ Eng. ] --
Lieutenant colonel, an army officer next in rank above major, and below colonel. --
Lieutenant commander, an officer in the United States navy, in rank next below a commander and next above a lieutenant. --
Lieutenant general. See in Vocabulary. --
Lieutenant governor. (a) An officer of a State, being next in rank to the governor, and in case of the death or resignation of the latter, himself acting as governor. [ U. S. ] (b) A deputy governor acting as the chief civil officer of one of several colonies under a governor general. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and (in brevet) on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and conferred on Ulysses S. Grant, and subsequently, by promotion, on William T. Sherman and Philip H. Sheridan, each of whom was advanced to the rank of general of the army. When Sheridan was made general (in 1888) the rank of lieutenant general was suffered to lapse. See General. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Lieutenancy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Lieutenancy, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. mi middle (L. medius) + lieu place. See Demi-, Lieu. ] Environment.

The intellectual and moral milieu created by multitudes of self-centered, cultivated personalities. J. A. Symonds.

It is one of the great outstanding facts of his progressive relation to the elements of his social milieu. J. M. Baldwin. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Purlieu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupted (by influence of lieu place) fr. OF. puralée, poralée (equiv. to LL. perambulatio a survey of boundaries, originally, a going through); por (L. pro, confused, however, with L. per through) + alée. See Pro-, and Alley. ] [ Written also pourlieu. ] 1. Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied
In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood. “The purlieus of St. James.” [ 1913 Webster ]

brokers had been incessantly plying for custom in the purlieus of the court. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. sub + lieutenant: cf. F. sous-lieutenant. ] An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. Virgouleuse. ] (Bot.) See Virgalieu. [ 1913 Webster ]