A principle of behaviour, conduct etc. thought to be desirable or necessary, especially as formally expressed by a government or other authoritative body.
Wise or advantageous conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
Specifically, political shrewdness or (formerly) cunning; statecraft.
(now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
The art of governance; political science.
A state; a polity.
A set political system; civil administration.
A trick; a stratagem.
Motive; object; inducement.
A contract of insurance.
A document containing or certifying this contract.
An illegal daily lottery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century USA on numbers drawn from a lottery wheel (no plural)
A number pool lottery
To regulate by laws; to reduce to order.