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See Legislatature, below.

See Legislature, below.

The diet or legislative body; as, the Landtag of Prussia.

row. (b) An American gull (Larus atricilla). In summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black. -- Laughing hyena (Zoöl.), the spotted hyena. See Hyena. -- Laughing jackass (Zoöl.), the great brown kingfisher (Dacelo gigas), of Australia; -- called also giant kingfisher, and…

he custom of merchants, and regulated by judicial decisions, as also by enactments of legislatures. -- Law of Charles (Physics), the law that the volume of a given mass of gas increases or decreases, by a definite fraction of its value for a given rise or fall of temperature; -- sometimes less correctly styled Gay Lus…

One who makes or enacts a law or system of laws; a legislator.

Enacting laws; legislative.

A legislator; a lawgiver.

Enacting laws; legislative. -- n.

ded as settling the law of the question involved. Abbott. -- Leading motive Etym: [a translation of G. leitmotif] (Mus.), a guiding theme; in the modern music drama of Wagner, a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion i…

those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who are in the opposition; the advanced republicans and extreme radicals. They have their seats at the left-hand side of the presiding officer. See Center, and Right.

ict or rigorous; not confined or restricted to the literal sense; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language.

ing the letter or exact words; not free. A middle course between the rigor of literal translations and the liberty of paraphrasts. Hooker.

th close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally. Dryden.

That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency. [U.S.]…

A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation. [U.S.]

of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.

ft otherwise unfilled; as belfry windows, the openings of a louver, etc. -- Louver work, slatted work.

in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. Dryden. Lydian stone, a flint slate used by the ancients to try gold and silver; a touchstone. See Basanite.

A slattern. [Prov. Eng.]