PUISNE

puisne. Puisne, [puny] a. younger, small, petty, lower

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Puis″ne (pū″ny̆), a. [[See Puny.]] 1. 1. Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent. “ A puisne date to eternity.” Sir M. Hale.
2. 2. Puny; petty; unskilled.
3. 3. (Law) Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer. Blackstone.