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"Take" for R, abbreviation of the Latin word recipe, meaning "take". Most abbreviations can be found in the Chambers Dictionary as this is the dictionary primarily used by crossword setters. However, some abbreviations may be found in other dictionaries, such as the Collins English Dictionary and Oxford English Dictionary .
Privy is an old-fashioned term for an outdoor toilet, often known as an outhouse and by many other names. Privy may also refer to: Privy council, a body that advises the head of state; Privy mark, a small mark in the design of a coin; Privy Purse, the British sovereign's private income
The Privy Council, formally His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the sovereign of the United Kingdom. Its members, known as privy counsellors, are mainly senior politicians who are current or former members of either the House of Commons or the House of Lords.
The Lord Privy Seal (or, more formally, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal) is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
The medieval kings of England had a clerical servant, at first known as their Clerk, later as their Secretary.The primary duty of this office was carrying on the monarch's official correspondence, but in varying degrees the holder also advised the Crown, and by the early fourteenth century, the position was in effect the third most powerful office of state in England, ranking after the Lord ...
"The Privy Council is the mechanism through which interdepartmental agreement is reached on those items of Government business which, for historical or other reasons, fall to Ministers as Privy Counsellors rather than as Departmental Ministers." [16] The routine functions of the lord president are as follows:
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal: James Douglas 2nd Duke of Queensberry — Vacant since the death of Gavin Campbell, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane in 1921. 4 Secretary of State: Hugh Campbell 3rd Earl of Loudoun. John Erskine 23rd and 6th Earl of Mar — Office abolished in 1709. Lesser Officers of State 5 Lord Clerk Register: James Murray Lord ...