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honour

(US), honor
1. 
a. Bridge Poker any of the top five cards in a suit or any of the four aces at no trumps
b. Whist any of the top four cards
2. Golf the right to tee off first

Honour

a. a title used to or of certain judges
b. (in Ireland) a form of address in general use
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But they do not know that the saint of their worship is the late Sir Purun Dass, K.C.I.E., D.C.L., Ph.D., etc., once Prime Minister of the progressive and enlightened State of Mohiniwala, and honorary or corresponding member of more learned and scientific societies than will ever do any good in this world or the next.
The thought passed through his mind that Mr Vladimir, honorary member, would not be seen very often there in the future.
He secured a lucrative share in the profits of the King's Playhouse, one of the two theaters of the time which alone were allowed to present regular plays, and he held the mainly honorary positions of poet laureate and historiographer-royal.
In facetious homage to the smallness of his talk, and the jerky nature of his manners, Fledgeby's familiars had agreed to confer upon him (behind his back) the honorary title of Fascination Fledgeby.
Pickwick was elected an honorary member of seventeen native and foreign societies, for making the discovery: that none of the seventeen could make anything of it; but that all the seventeen agreed it was very extraordinary.
"I say, stranger, how are ye?" said the aforesaid gentleman, firing an honorary salute of tobacco-juice in the direction of the new arrival.
and what event of weightier intrinsic importance, or of more extensive consequences, was ever selected for this honorary distinction?
last June, the first of his race," said Governor Wolcott, "to receive an honorary degree from the oldest university in the land, and this for the wise leadership of his people." When Mr.
Not only were his business activities interesting, but also the fact that he serves as the honorary consul of Uganda in Slovakia.
KARACHI -- Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has registered its concern with regard to registration of Honorary Fellowship awarded by College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan (CPSP) by Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC).
ISLAMABAD -- Registration of honorary degrees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) is a violation of its own decisions taken by its previous management.
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