Legal Dictionary

Definition: (adjective) Transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity.
Synonyms: limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent.
Usage: This water is of such crystalline purity that the body of the bather appears of an alabaster whiteness.

Definition: (adjective) Deserving reward or praise.
Synonyms: meritable.
Usage: He carried himself with pride, as though, forsooth, he had achieved a deed praiseworthy and meritorious.

Definition: (verb) To release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles.
Synonyms: withdraw.
Usage: Fiercely he strove to disengage his weapon, but Hordle John bent his arm slowly back until, with a sharp crack, like a breaking stave, it turned limp in his grasp....

Definition: (noun) A visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that once existed but exists or appears no more.
Synonyms: tincture, trace, shadow.
Usage: He was so deadly pale—which had not been the case when they went in together—that no vestige of color was to be seen in his face....