A gift divided among the people or the soldiers, originally something measured in a congius, such as corn or wine.
In plural. Roman History. Gifts, such as sweets and perfumes, thrown by Roman emperors to crowds as largesse. Obsolete.
(See quot. 1861.)
= missile, n. 1. Obsolete. rare.
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