Admiralty

1. n. The building in which the lords of the admiralty, in England, transact business.
2. n. The office or jurisdiction of an admiral.
3. n. The department or officers having authority over naval affairs generally.
4. n. The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
5. n. The system of jurisprudence of admiralty courts.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.