A small body moving through space, or revolving about
the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated
and appear as a meteor.
Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating. Sir W. Hamilton. Petitory suit or action (Admiralty Law), a suit in which the mere title to property is litigated and sought to be enforced, as distinguished from a possessory suit; also (Scots L...