Word Meaning

puisne definition and meaning

a. Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent.
a. Puny; petty; unskilled.
a. 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.
n. One who is younger, or of inferior rank; a junior; esp., a judge of inferior rank.