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▸ noun:  (historical) In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.
▸ noun:  In the United States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.
▸ noun:  The type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy.
▸ noun:  The type of building that houses the offices and administration of a diocese; the offices of a diocese.
▸ noun:  (historical) In the Middle Ages, a government office that produced and notarized official documents.
▸ noun:  (boxing, slang) The position of a boxer's head when under his adversary's arm.
▸ noun:  (slang, archaic) Any awkward predicament.
▸ adverb:  (boxing) With the head of an antagonist under one's arm, so that one can pommel it with the other fist at will.
▸ adverb:  (figurative) In an awkward situation; wholly under the power of someone else.
▸ noun:  (writing) Short for chancery hand. [(calligraphy, historical) Either of two styles of handwriting: a written form of black letter used in France and England from about 1350, developed in the Lateran chancelry in the 13th century, or a style of cursive handwriting introduced in the 1420s by Niccolò de' Niccoli, developed from humanist minuscule; a variety of either of these styles.]

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