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a common purpose or sentiment; as, the line-up at a ticket- office window; the line-up of political factions.

To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]

One who engages in logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.] The jobbers and logrollers will all be against it. The. Nation.

receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or ends. [Cant, U.S.]

in an indolent manner. We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics. J. Hannay.

Of or pertaining to Machiavel, or to his supposed principles; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.

The supposed principles of Machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.

A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends. [Political Cant]

ble desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform. It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols. Jer. 1. 88. And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. Acts xxvi. 11.

A secret society which organized in Sicily as a political organization, but is now widespread among Italians, and is used to further or protect private interests, reputedly by illegal methods.

Of or pertaining to the political economist, the Rev. T. R. Malthus, or conforming to his views; as, Malthusian theories.

Artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud.

ous show; disguise. That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome. De Quincey.

The collective body of matrons. Burke. Can a politician slight the feelings and convictions of the whole matronage of his country Hare.

se or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure. His majesty found what wrong measures he had taken in the conferring that trust, and lamented his error. Clarendon.

Flashing; brilliant; transient; like a meteor; as, meteoric fame. "Meteoric politician." Craik. Meteoric iron, Meteoric stone. (Min.) See Meteorite. -- Meteoric paper, a substance of confervoid origin found floating in the air, and resembling bits of coarse paper; -- so called because formerly supposed to fall from me…

Moderation in doctrines or opinion, especially in politics or religion.

conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss. [Political Slang, U.S.]

A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent. [Political Cant, U.S.]

The acts and views of the mugwumps. [Political Cant, U.S.]